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<title>ICEM SSARO Condemns Grisly Rape, Murder of Woman inside Amplats Mine</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/5-Mining-DGOJP/4888-ICEM-SSARO-Condemns-Grisly-Rape-Murder-of-Woman-inside-Amplats-Mine</link>
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	Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 9 February, the ICEM&rsquo;s Sub-Saharan African Regional Organisation (SSARO) adopted a moving statement that denounces violence against women in the workplace, most specifically a rape and murder earlier this week inside Anglo American Platinum Ltd.&rsquo;s (Amplats) Khomanani Mine in Rustenburg, North West Province.

	ICEM affiliate National Mine Workers (NUM) of South Africa has given North West police until the end of this week to arrest...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/5-Mining-DGOJP/4888-ICEM-SSARO-Condemns-Grisly-Rape-Murder-of-Woman-inside-Amplats-Mine"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
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<title>Sintraelecol Leaders Targeted, ICEM Demands Colombia, Employer Give Protection</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4874-Sintraelecol-Leaders-Targeted-ICEM-Demands-Colombia-Employer-Give-Protection</link>
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The start of 2012 has seen deadly circumstances facing Colombian trade unionists deteriorate even further. The leadership of ICEM-affiliated Sintraelecol, the Electric Power Workers&rsquo; Union, is now being systematically threatened. 

Sintraelecol leaders Marcelino Jos&eacute; L&oacute;pez Perez and Danuil G&oacute;mez Perez have escaped harm in three attempts on their lives in a period of six weeks, from 19 December, in the Northern city of Monter&iacute;a C&oacute;rdoba. The only way to...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4874-Sintraelecol-Leaders-Targeted-ICEM-Demands-Colombia-Employer-Give-Protection"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:27:12 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Rio Tinto’s Euro Works Council Irate over Québec Aluminium Lockout</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4875-Rio-Tinto-s-Euro-Works-Council-Irate-over-Québec-Aluminium-Lockout</link>
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The European Works Council (EWC) of Rio Tinto last week condemned the global minerals and metal producer for its unwarranted lockout of 780 Canadian members of Syndicat des M&eacute;tallos d&rsquo;Alma, an affiliate of the United Steelworkers (USW) in Alma, Qu&eacute;bec. 

The intervention made by Rio&rsquo;s EWC Secretary V&eacute;ronique Roche from Paris comes at a time when the USW along with the ICEM and the International Metalworkers&rsquo; Federation (IMF) are ramping up a campaign. Actions...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4875-Rio-Tinto-s-Euro-Works-Council-Irate-over-Québec-Aluminium-Lockout"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:42:53 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Raging Insult to Final Injury: Caterpillar to Close Canadian Train Locomotive Plant</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4876-Raging-Insult-to-Final-Injury:-Caterpillar-to-Close-Canadian-Train-Locomotive-Plant</link>
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Rather than bargain in good faith, Caterpillar&rsquo;s Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) dropped a bombshell 3 February on locked-out Canadian workers: the company announced it was closing its train locomotive plant in London, Ontario. The US-based heavy equipment maker now leaves no doubt that it was playing a vile game of economic blackmail through collective negotiations with the Canadian Auto Workers&rsquo; (CAW) union. 

The announced shutdown comes five weeks after Caterpillar&rsquo;s Progress...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4876-Raging-Insult-to-Final-Injury:-Caterpillar-to-Close-Canadian-Train-Locomotive-Plant"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:05:50 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Electricity, Energy Workers’ Union Re-Born in Egypt</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4877-Electricity-Energy-Workers-Union-Re-Born-in-Egypt</link>
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It was a two-and-a-half-hour high speed drive on chaotic Egyptian roads to travel from 6th of October City, an industrial zone of Cairo, north to El-Mahalla El-Kubra, a large industrial and agricultural city in the middle of the Nile Delta. It is known for its dominant textile industry and is home to the largest public-sector Egyptian textile company, the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company. 

El-Mahalla El-Kubra is also famous for industrial and political struggle. On 6 April 2008, the city held...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4877-Electricity-Energy-Workers-Union-Re-Born-in-Egypt"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:10:25 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Explicit Trade Union Language Adopted by UN’s Global Compact for Rio+20</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4878-Explicit-Trade-Union-Language-Adopted-by-UN-s-Global-Compact-for-Rio-20</link>
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Disappointed with a draft of the UN Global Compact document &ldquo;Corporate Sustainability Leadership: A Framework for Action at Rio+20 and Beyond,&rdquo; global labour&rsquo;s two representatives on the body &ndash; ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda and UNI General Secretary Philip Jennings &ndash; worked to get stronger trade union language adopted by the Global Compact for the UN&rsquo;s June 2012 World Summit on Sustainable Development, dubbed &ldquo;Rio+20.&rdquo; 

That effort succeeded...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4878-Explicit-Trade-Union-Language-Adopted-by-UN-s-Global-Compact-for-Rio-20"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:17:59 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Queensland Coal Strikes to Resume against BHP Billiton-Mitsubishi Alliance</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4879-Queensland-Coal-Strikes-to-Resume-against-BHP-Billiton-Mitsubishi-Alliance</link>
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Coalminers represented by three Australian unions under the grouping Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) voted late last week to resume strike action against the BMA, the BHP Billiton/Mitsubishi metallurgical coal alliance that operates seven rich mines in the Bowen Basin of central Queensland. 

After six days of futile bargaining between 16 and 23 January, the SBU held a series of mass meetings on 2-3 February in which workers again decidedly rejected the employer&rsquo;s proposal by better than 1,600...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4879-Queensland-Coal-Strikes-to-Resume-against-BHP-Billiton-Mitsubishi-Alliance"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:53:44 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Curtain Up on Europe’s New Trade Union Industrial Federation</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4880-Curtain-Up-on-Europe-s-New-Trade-Union-Industrial-Federation</link>
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A joint Executive Committee meeting of three European trade union federations on 31 January put the final touches on statutes, a political programme, and also nominated candidates for leadership in what is to become a united eight-million-member industrial workers&rsquo; federation. The meeting, held near Mechelen, Belgium, was attended by 150 national union leaders from 25 nations. 

The European Mine, Chemical and Energy Workers&rsquo; Federation (EMCEF), European Metalworkers&rsquo; Federation...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4880-Curtain-Up-on-Europe-s-New-Trade-Union-Industrial-Federation"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:03:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>IF Metall’s Board Elects Anders Ferbe to Replace Stefan Löfven</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4881-IF-Metall-s-Board-Elects-Anders-Ferbe-to-Replace-Stefan-Löfven</link>
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ICEM Nordic Region Vice President Anders Ferbe was elected 1 February by IF Metall&rsquo;s Executive Board to serve as Acting President of Sweden&rsquo;s largest industrial union, replacing Stefan L&ouml;fven who stepped down 27 January to head the Social Democratic Party of Sweden. 

Ferbe, 57, had been IF Metall&rsquo;s First Vice President since 2008 and has been an ICEM Presidium member since 2007 when he was elected at the Fourth Statutory Congress in Bangkok. He will head the 355,000-member...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4881-IF-Metall-s-Board-Elects-Anders-Ferbe-to-Replace-Stefan-Löfven"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:09:57 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Workers of CertainTeed, a Saint-Gobain Unit, Retain Premium Health Care in USA</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4882-Workers-of-CertainTeed-a-Saint-Gobain-Unit-Retain-Premium-Health-Care-in-USA</link>
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A 40-day strike in the US state of Massachusetts ended a week ago. Ninety brave members of the ICEM-affiliated Teamsters Union (IBT) backed Saint-Gobain&rsquo;s CertainTeed subsidiary away from severe cuts to their health care plan, and ratified a five-year labour agreement by a 69-0 vote on 29 January. 

The workers, who make asphalt roofing shingles, gypsum wallboard and fiberglass products at a plant outside Boston in Norwood, Massachusetts, returned to their jobs on 31 January with their...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4882-Workers-of-CertainTeed-a-Saint-Gobain-Unit-Retain-Premium-Health-Care-in-USA"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:13:01 +0100</pubDate>
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