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26th March 2014, 00:54

URGENT: Please Support Unionists in Guadeloupe Facing Repression by the French State

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To: Trade Unions and Community/Political Organizations Across the United States
From: Haiti-Guadeloupe Campaign Committee Conveners

Dear Sisters and Brothers:

We sent you this past January an Urgent Appeal from Elie Domota asking for your support for a petition addressed to Mme. Christine Taubira, Justice Minister of France, calling for an end to the repression of trade unionists in Guadeloupe, a French colony (formally an Overseas Department) in the Caribbean. Brother Domota is the General Secretary of the UGTG trade union federation in Guadeloupe and spokesperson of the LKP coalition, which organized a successful 44-day general strike in 2009 against the French colonial administration.

In his appeal, Brother Domota informed us that the repression by the French authorities has been stepped up in recent months against the trade union leaders who organized that general strike and who have continued to champion the workers' struggle. [See background information below.]

Many of you have endorsed this petition, and we thank you for your support.

We are now calling upon all trade union and community/political organizations that have worked with our committee over the years to ask that:

(1) your union or organization endorse the appeal below to the French authorities demanding that they drop the charges against these trade unionists, and

(2) your union or organization send a message of support -- on your letterhead -- to the April 7, 2014, International Press Conference and Solidarity Rally in Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) in Support of the UGTG Trade Unionists facing repression by the French State.

The day after this International Solidarity Rally, on April 8, Charly Lendo, Deputy Secretary General of the UGTG, will appear before the courts. He has been charged with indirect, involuntary manslaughter in the unfortunate death, during the 44-day general strike, of a young motorcyclist for which he bears no responsibility.

We ask that you please fill out the coupon below and that you send it back to us, along with your solidarity message to the April 7 International Press Conference and Solidarity Rally, if at all possible on your letterhead in a pdf file, to our two email addresses: <[email protected]> and <[email protected]>. (We need to translate your statements into French, so we ask that you please send them to us as soon as possible -- and no later than April 2.)

Many thanks for your continued support, and hoping to hear back from you soon.

In solidarity,

Colia Clark and Alan Benjamin
Co-Conveners
Haiti-Guadeloupe Campaign Committee

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BACKGROUND INFO AND EXCERPTS FROM LETTER FROM ELIE DOMOTA

* On January 16, 2014, three leaders of the Union of Health Care Workers affiliated with the UGTG (UTS-UGTG) were summoned to appear before the Criminal Court of Pointe-à Pitre. Their charges date back to the strike actions of 2009.

* On April 8, Charly Lendo, Deputy Secretary General of the UGTG, will appear before the courts. He has been charged with indirect, involuntary manslaughter. He is considered responsible by the authorities for the accidental death of a young motorcyclist that occurred in February 2009 in the framework of the general strike and mobilizations organized by the LKP anti-profiteering coalition.

* On May 2, 2013, for the first time, a union activist in Guadeloupe (Jocelyn Leborgne, Secretary General of the Union of Commercial Workers, UEC-UGTG) was fired from his job for refusing to submit a DNA sample. The prosecutor appealed this decision. For the time being, no trial date has been set.

Brother Domota concluded his letter urging international solidarity with the UGTG unionists as follows:

"Things are clear: The French authorities want to silence the UGTG by any means necessary. . . . With these trials, the authorities and the employers seek to muzzle and terrorize union activists to better strip workers and the people of Guadeloupe of their rights and gains.

"We will not let ourselves be stomped upon. In the name of workers' solidarity, in the name of democracy, in the name of the right to the workers of Guadeloupe and their unions to fight for their legitimate demands, we appeal to you for support and solidarity."

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PLEASE ENDORSE THIS INTERNATIONAL LABOR SOLIDARITY APPEAL

Attention: Mme. Christine Taubira
Justice Minister of France
Paris, France

Dear Mme. Taubira,

We, the undersigned trade unionists and labor activists, have been informed that on top of refusing to respect and implement the Bino Agreements, which concluded the 44-day general strike in February 2009, your government is stepping up its repression against the trade union movement, and against the General Union of Workers of Guadeloupe (UGTG) in particular.

We call on you to drop the charges and court proceedings against the UGTG trade unionists, particularly against UGTG Deputy General Secretary Charly Lendo, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the unfortunate death of a young motorcyclist for which he bears no responsibility.

We, who remain attached to the fundamental principles of international labor solidarity and democracy, call upon you to stop criminalizing the Guadeloupan trade unionists, to put an end to DNA tests against trade unionists, and to drop all charges against Charly Lendo.

Sincerely,

Initial Signatories
Colia Clark and Alan Benjamin
Co-Conveners
Haiti-Guadeloupe Campaign Committee
New York, New York (USA)

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ENDORSEMENT COUPON

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[Please return this filled out coupon to <[email protected]> and to <[email protected]>. This statement, with the full list of endorsers, will be sent to the UGTG federation, the LKP Coalition, and French Justice Minister Mme. Taubira.]

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ckaihatsu

26th March 2014, 17:43

IUF News

ATILRA open technology education center and host 3rd IUF global dairy conference (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3250)

Posted: 25 Mar 2014 08:03 AM PDT

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The Argentinian dairy union's technology education center in Sunchales, Santa Fe is a modern well designed facility aimed at providing university level education in the skills of dairy processing, research and innovation.

Indian Pepsi, Coca-Cola workers' solidarity with terminated PepsiCo warehouse unionists (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3249)

Posted: 25 Mar 2014 06:11 AM PDT

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Unions across India have held protest actions in solidarity with the ongoing struggle of the PepsiCo (Frito Lays) Workers Action Committee in Kolkata.

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28th March 2014, 16:51

[email protected] #84 - MENA unions build power by strengthening cooperation

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MENA unions build power by strengthening cooperation

Lively debate on democratic development and workers’ rights dominates IndustriALL Global Union’s regional conference for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in Jordanian capital Amman.

More than 70 union leaders from 17 countries attended IndustriALL’s MENA regional conference which was held on 24-25 March 2014 in Amman with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES). The hosts welcomed affiliated unions from the region including Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Kuwait and Yemen. Potential affiliates from Bahrain, Somalia and Egypt, as well as partner unions from Spain, France, Germany, Norway and Turkey were also present.

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3,600-strong oil worker strike in Jordan averted with remarkable agreement

Monday 24 March saw a remarkable trade union victory in Amman, Jordan. A last-minute new collective agreement including a 30 per cent salary increase averted strike action by the 3,600 members of IndustriALL Global Union’s Jordanian petroleum and chemical workers affiliate.

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Georgian miners win after long strike

Mining workers of Georgia win after 40-days strike an increase in salaries and get their demands on reinstatement of dismissed colleagues satisfied.

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Strikers say ‘No’ to Crown’s miserable offer in Canada

After seven months of hardship striking workers at Crown operation in Toronto are determined by declining unfair offer made by the company.

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Labour conflicts deepen at Glencore Xstrata subsidiary

Workers at a Glencore copper mining company in Southern Peru have walked off the job in protest at labour rights’ abuses.

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29th March 2014, 18:07

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NZ unions oppose Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) in nationwide rallies

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A day before rallies in opposition to NZ signing the TPPA take place throughout the country, the IUF affiliated SFWU has warned that the investment treaty threatens thousands of their members' jobs.

The proposed treaty prohibits preference for public or local provision in Government procurement policies, frustrating aspirations for a living wage and handing power to the corporate masters of competitive pricing.

The SFWU joins other unions under the umbrella of the NZ Council of Trade unions in their outright opposition to the TPPA.

The NZCTU says: "The TPPA contains threats to our health system, our public services and public enterprises, our ability to use government purchasing to develop our economy and improve our environment and working conditions, and our right to make changes to our laws and regulations in the interests of most New Zealanders.

This model of agreement increases the power of international corporations and reduces the power of elected governments and their citizens to resist corporate demands"

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3rd April 2014, 16:16

LAST MINUTE: Pls Support Unionists in Guadeloupe Facing Repression!'; Your Endorsement of Petition to French Authorities Is Needed Urgently . . .

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To: Trade Unionists and Community/Political Across the United States
From: Haiti-Guadeloupe Campaign Committee Conveners

Dear Sisters and Brothers:

We are writing this last-minute appeal to urge you to please endorse the petition [see below] addressed to the Justice Minister of France calling for an end to the repression of trade unionists who organized a successful 44-day general strike in 2009 against the French colonial administration.

We have sent you in previous postings the Urgent Appeal from Elie Domota, General Secretary of the UGTG trade union federation in the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, asking for your support. Brother Domota informed us that the repression by the French authorities has been stepped up in recent months against the trade union leaders who organized that general strike and who have continued to champion the workers' struggle.

Many of you have endorsed this petition, and we thank you for your support. But if you have not yet endorsed this petition, please do so today.

The national convention of the UGTG begins tomorrow (April 3) in the capital city of Pointe-à-Pitre. And on April 7 an International Press Conference and Solidarity Rally will be held to denounce the repression by the French State.

The day after this Solidarity Rally, Charly Lendo, Deputy Secretary General of the UGTG, will appear before the courts. He has been charged with indirect, involuntary manslaughter in the unfortunate death, during the 44-day general strike, of a young motorcyclist for which he bears no responsibility.

We ask that you please fill out the coupon below and that you send it back to us ASAP to our two email addresses: <[email protected]> and <[email protected]>.

Many thanks for your continued support, and hoping to hear back from you soon.

In solidarity,

Colia Clark and Alan Benjamin
Co-Conveners
Haiti-Guadeloupe Campaign Committee

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PLEASE ENDORSE THIS INTERNATIONAL LABOR SOLIDARITY APPEAL

Attention: Mme. Christine Taubira
Justice Minister of France
Paris, France

Dear Mme. Taubira,

We, the undersigned trade unionists and labor activists, have been informed that on top of refusing to respect and implement the Bino Agreements, which concluded the 44-day general strike in February 2009, your government is stepping up its repression against the trade union movement, and against the General Union of Workers of Guadeloupe (UGTG) in particular.

We call on you to drop the charges and court proceedings against the UGTG trade unionists, particularly against UGTG Deputy General Secretary Charly Lendo, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the unfortunate death of a young motorcyclist for which he bears no responsibility.

We, who remain attached to the fundamental principles of international labor solidarity and democracy, call upon you to stop criminalizing the Guadeloupan trade unionists, to put an end to DNA tests against trade unionists, and to drop all charges against Charly Lendo.

Sincerely,

Initial Signatories
Colia Clark and Alan Benjamin
Co-Conveners
Haiti-Guadeloupe Campaign Committee
New York, New York (USA)

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ENDORSEMENT COUPON

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[Please return this filled out coupon to <[email protected]> and to <[email protected]>. This statement, with the full list of endorsers, will be sent to the UGTG federation, the LKP Coalition, and French Justice Minister Mme. Taubira.]

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5th April 2014, 00:10

[email protected] #85 - Georg Fischer consistently spurns union rights in Turkey

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Georg Fischer consistently spurns union rights in Turkey

IndustriALL Global Union repeatedly calls on Swiss-based multinational company Georg Fischer to put an end to violations of union rights in Turkey and demands immediate reinstatement of 37 dismissed workers.

Lastik-Is, the Petroleum, Chemical and Rubber Industry Workers’ Union of Turkey, member of DISK national center and of IndustriALL, launched an organizing campaign at the operations of the company called Georg Fischer Hakan Plastik in Turkey a few months ago.

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“Hyundai violates fundamental rights”, reports the Company Union Network

The international network of trade unions at Hyundai motors today published a report detailing abuses of labour rights throughout the world. “Labour relations at Hyundai are more confrontational than at any other car manufacturer”.

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ITUA prepares to fight for every job

April Fools’ Day was a sad day for the workers of the Ford Sollers factory in Vsevolozhsk in Russia. The company released a press release announcing 700 redundancies, and this is not a joke.

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“Put Industry Back to Work”, demand European Trade Unions

Just ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections, European trade unions accepted a manifesto demanding to “Put Industry Back to Work” at an Extraordinary Executive Committee meeting of IndustriAll European Trade Union on April 2 in Madrid.

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Metalworkers of Kazakhstan prepare to fight for their 13th salary in court

The trade union of metalworkers «ZHAKTAU» is going to sue the board of directors of the company ArcelorMittal Temirtau for their refusal to pay the contract based 13th monthly salary for 2013.

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5th April 2014, 00:11

IUF News

"http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3275"]Zhanaozen Solidarity campaign brings results

Posted: 04 Apr 2014 01:02 AM PDT

The international campaign in solidarity with imprisoned oil workers in Kazakhstan has delivered results. The campaign, supported by the IUF, IndustriAll, the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Kazakhstan and the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia. Within three months of the campaign launch over 11,400 letters were sent through LabourStart from around the world to Kazakhstan diplomatic missions, demanding freedom for the imprisoned oil workers.

Uk Bakers for fast food rights (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3274)

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 10:43 AM PDT

fastfoodrightslogoOn March 29, leaders and members of the IUF-affiliated Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) along with activists from the Fast Food Rights campaign held demonstrations in front of fast food restaurants in 31 cities across the UK.

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7th April 2014, 17:57

Union-busting multinational boasts "we respect people"

Tell Swiss multinational Georg Fischer to start respecting workers' rights.

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Like so many companies, Swiss-based transnational Georg Fischer claims to have "core values".

These include "we respect people" -- the image over on the left is taken from their corporate website.

But this giant company, which employs 14,000 people in 32 countries, doesn't respect the people who work for it in Turkey.

Even though the union there, Lastik-Is, has organized the majority of Georg Fischer's workforce, the company refuses to negotiate.

Worse, it's trying to break the union with one on one meetings with workers, pressing them to quit the union.

When that doesn't work, they sack the "troublemakers". So far, 37 union members have lost their jobs.

The global union IndustriALL is calling for a massive campaign to press the company to stop trying to break the union, to enter in negotiations, and to do what they say they believe in: respect people.

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10th April 2014, 18:32

[email protected] #86 - Hard won victory for workers at Vidriera de San Potosí in Mexico

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Hard won victory for workers at Vidriera de San Potosí in Mexico

Thirty-three workers have won an important victory in their fight for reinstatement at Vidriera de San Luis Potosí. The company, which dismissed hundreds of workers in 2008 for forming an independent trade union, makes bottles for the export beer brand Corona Extra and is a subsidiary of Grupo Modelo-AB InBev.

The independent trade union, Sindicato Único de Trabajadores de la Empresa Industria Vidriera del Potosí (SUTEIVP), with strong support from its members (about 850), won a 19 per cent pay rise in 2007, higher than any won for a long time in the state. The response of companies located at the San Luis Potosí industrial estate was not long in coming. They felt they could not tolerate this unacceptable precedent in labour relations, which showed that an independent union founded by the workers themselves could provide an alternative to “official” trade unionism.

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Building unity and power in Thailand

For more than a month, 600 striking Michelin workers have been camping in front of the Ministry of Labour in Bangkok. On 9 April, IndustriALL Global Union together with Thai affiliates met the workers to show global support for their struggle.

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Clothing brands fail Rana Plaza survivors

Two weeks before the first anniversary of the devastating building collapse, clothing brands contributions to Donor Trust Fund remain shockingly low.

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Korean union leader Kim Jungwoo is free

Thanks to the international campaign launched by Amnesty International and supported by Global Unions including ITUC and IndustriALL the Korean trade union leader and human rights defender Kim Jungwoo was released from jail on 1 April 2014. Other 14 leaders condemned in the same case remain imprisoned.

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International campaign helps to free two more Kazakh oil workers

Under the pressure of the international community two out of seven imprisoned workers were released. Three, including the only woman, Roza Tuletaeva, were alleviated of their conditions of imprisonment. They were transferred to the colony-settlement. However two people, Shabdan Utkilov and Kanat Zhusipbaev so far remain in jail.

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10th April 2014, 18:33

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Cargill workers in Egypt still locked-out, still holding strong (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3279)

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 05:43 AM PDT

Workers at the Cargill-owned National Vegetable Oils Company in Alexandria, Egypt, have been prevented from working since December 16.

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11th April 2014, 22:29

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No joy for Ferrero's precarious Kinder Joy women workers in India

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 07:58 AM PDT

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Ferrero's state-of-the art US$125 million Kinder Joy and Tic Tac factory in India exploits over 1,400 precarious workers on minimum wages. Italian-based, family-owned Ferrero employs over 20,000 people worldwide in the manufacture of Nutella, Ferrero Rocher, Kinder, Tic Tac and Hanuta products, among others.

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12th April 2014, 16:50

Energy Unions lay out roadmap “Towards Sustainable, Social and Safe Energy Policies”

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“Towards Sustainable, Social and Safe Energy Policies”

Attending IndustriALL Global Union’s World Conference for the Energy Industries, some 250 union leaders from 45 countries adopted an ambitious and vibrant plan of action for the next four years reinforcing unity and fighting back against similar anti-worker tactics throughout the world.

Hosted by IndustriALL’s two affiliates FITAG-UGT and Industria-CC.OO., the Conference made an extensive debate over the five strategic goals of the global union which were endorsed by the Executive Committee. Delegates reported similar stories from all five continents of trade unionists in the industry being undermined by precarious work, aggressive liberalization, unsafe work and union busting.

“Unions in the industry are fighting back”, IndustriALL General Secretary Raina told delegates in his opening address. “Every day is a campaigning day for IndustriALL Global Union”.

Spain’s Secretary of State for Energy Alberto Nadal addressed the conference in its opening session, giving importance to developed industrial relations with IndustriALL’s Spanish affiliates. The country’s highest energy official told delegates: “Energy should be a universal right for all. Without cheap energy, there is not development, and without secure energy, no economic growth. Energy is the base of all economies”.

The conference sought to analyse and develop progressive energy policies that fully take into account the interests of workers faced with rapid change in national energy policies and structures, and ensure change is managed through a process of “Just Transition.” The energy industry plays a key role in IndustriALL’s worldwide initiative of “Sustainable Industrial Policy”, particularly with its close connection with manufacturing sectors as well as sustainability matters.

In addition to the action plan, the Conference unanimously passed five emergency resolutions, issuing urgent solidarity and support for UWUA members under attack in the US by FirstEnergy; in Iraq where an inspirational trade union leader has received death threats against her family; in Indonesia where Pertamina management is acting with impunity and ignoring a court ruling to punish workers for organizing; in Australia where oil giant Chevron is union busting the MUA; and extending solidarity to the Mexican union of electricity workers.

The delegates also applauded IndustriALL’s close cooperation in the energy sector with other sister global unions, PSI and ITF, to advance alliances in the supply chain.

New co-chairs of the sector were elected by delegates in line with the new policy of IndustriALL whereby each industrial sector will be jointly chaired by one woman and one man. The new co-chairs of the energy sector are Apsorn Krissanasmit of Thailand and Leif Sande of Norway.

The Conference also formed an Action Group to handle the day-to-day work of the sector. The make up of the group again reflects the regional, sub-sectorial and gender balance in the industry: Gwenne Farrell of Canada, Linda McCulloch of Workers’ Uniting, Jean-François Renucci of France, Lev Mironov of Russia, Kaoru Kishimoto of Japan, Pablo Emilio Santos Nieto of Colombia, Jorge Fierro Andrade of Chile, Abdelmajid Matoual of Morocco, Aly Al-Adwani of Kuwait, Ady Lombume of Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mfanawelisontfo Dlamini of Swaziland.

Concluding the Conference, IndustriALL Assistant General Secretary Kemal Özkan stated: “The very high quality discussions, energy, enthusiasm of energy industry comrades from five continents will make IndustriALL a genuine global trade union power in this centrally important industry.”

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13th April 2014, 15:51

UK UNISON SOAS cleaners: third day of strike action

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"We're not afraid of you anymore! The more you attack us, the stronger we become!" says Lenin Escudero, UNISON rep for the SOAS cleaners who are demanding to be brought back inhouse and enjoy the same pensions, sick pay and holidays as the rest of the staff. More strike action to come...

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18th April 2014, 00:30

New video & major mobilization next week!

Dear Chris,

We're one week out from April 24th, the one-year anniversary of Rana Plaza, and momentum for the "Pay Up" Global Day of Action (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jNDaGGCbY%2BSvwG6O4nTJfUGV7Y1JXLS1) is building! Last week Rana Plaza survivor Aklima Khanam protested corporate inaction (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=i9UsePAgIkZ9FZOw5FniMUGV7Y1JXLS1) to help victims and their families. She went to The Children's Place headquarters and a nearby Walmart supercenter to deliver her request and a marching band took to the street (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HhQCXDt1OdunbJzg%2BXh05EGV7Y1JXLS1) with her call to action, bringing photos of the tragedy's orphans directly to the doorstep of The Children's Place CEO Jane Elfers.

We need your help to keep the momentum going and force companies to pay attention on the anniversary! Here's what you can do:

* Share our infographic on Facebook (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=q8osoajHPYs1KoYudkL%2Bn0GV7Y1JXLS1) noting that The Children's Place can pay CEO Elfers $17 million in compensation, but the orphans, families, and survivors of Rana Plaza continue to suffer. We've already got 450 shares and are looking to get 550 more to spread the message.

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* Circulate our new campaign video (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2Nromy8Y2k261QFYcF6fxEGV7Y1JXLS1) widely (or share from our Facebook page (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fkSfo3VONm9G4%2BIUoTXpTZOhXzVhVahH)). We are launching this video TODAY to build momentum for actions that will take place at The Children's Place, Walmart and Benetton stores and in the supply chain on April 24th.

Video: Rana Plaza Survivors Call on Brands to Pay Up

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* It's not too late to plan a store delegation or larger demonstration for April 24th. Use the handy store manager letter or other resources that we've prepared - click here for Walmart materials (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ebzPzbshXHoDz%2FepY%2BzOcJOhXzVhVahH) and here for Children's Place resources (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xWBhRyopBiazvCtb8ej6XUGV7Y1JXLS1). For those in Europe, here are Benetton resources (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GHCwZUIGid7N2fE6GOYrK0GV7Y1JXLS1) and background (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=k4%2FUns1JSKr%2BalpK%2BeqEM0GV7Y1JXLS1). For information on actions announced so far, click here (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EAvg%2FMXQjQUJFeWpo9bkn0GV7Y1JXLS1). Please let us know about your action plans by emailing me at [email protected] as well as by sharing photos after your action.

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19th April 2014, 15:46

American University could take a stand for Bangladesh worker safety

Dear Chris,

The one year anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse is one week away, and 16 universities across the US have already required their apparel brands — including notorious worker rights abuser VF Corporation — to sign the Bangladesh Safety Accord, a legally-binding contract between unions and brands designed to end deathtrap factory conditions. However, American University continues to refuse to do the right thing to guarantee worker safety and require our brands to sign the Accord.

Stand with Bangladeshi workers: send a message to the president of American University, who needs a little extra push from people like you to do the right thing for worker safety. (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IvwPk9cNxZDepwF8yndbX8Se7WSDFTvH)

Since last fall, the AU End Deathtraps Coalition has been campaigning hard to get President Kerwin to require brands to sign the Accord. We have collected over 500 petition signatures from AU students, faculty, alumni, and community members and kept the university aware of our actions through a variety of letter deliveries and actions. After holding a well-attended Bangladeshi Worker Speak-Out in which organizer Kalpona Akter and Rana Plaza survivor Reba Sikder spoke about their experiences, we were allowed to make a presentation to our university's Committee on Socially Responsible Business Practices at the beginning of March.

It has been over a month since our presentation and despite a positive recommendation from the committee and assurances from the president's office that things are "moving in a positive direction," the administration seems determined to stall, even after we were informed that a decision would be made last Friday. This is unacceptable. Our coalition has sent a letter to President Kerwin demanding a decision by April 24th, the one year anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse and so far, have received no response.

We’ve been told by a variety of sources that our administration is leaning towards doing the right thing, but the continued lack of communication means that we must take action to push President Kerwin to make AU join the 16 other universities who have already required their brands to sign the Accord. Our USAS local will be taking action on our campus, but we need your help to put pressure on President Kerwin and show our university that this is a cause with widespread support.

Can we count on your support? Send an email to the President Kerwin letting him know that now is the time to stand up for worker safety in Bangladesh. (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ne7vwnagmargT%2FKMd9TK5famEgk9llSd)

We think that AU joining the ranks of colleges standing up for worker safety would be the perfect way to remember the tragedy at Rana Plaza. We believe that with students fighting for justice on their campuses and Bangladeshi workers protesting in the streets of Dhaka, we will beat VF Corporation and other companies who have refused to take responsibility for worker safety.

In solidarity,

Katie Plank
Student Worker Alliance
USAS Local #34, American University

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19th April 2014, 16:08

[email protected] #87 - Energy unions worldwide back UWUA in struggle against FirstEnergy: “One Day Longer, One Day Stronger”

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Energy unions worldwide back UWUA in struggle against FirstEnergy: “One Day Longer, One Day Stronger”

The entire network of the world’s energy industry trade unions is rallying in support of members of the Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA), employed by the third largest U.S. electric power company, FirstEnergy.

The IndustriALL World Energy Conference adopted a strong resolution on 11 March to take action calling on the company to end the attack and treat its workers with dignity. The UWUA represents 3,200 FirstEnergy workers in the U.S. states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.

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Rio Tinto stands far from real sustainability

IndustriALL Global Union came together with trade union and civil society representatives to call for an end to Rio Tinto’s unsustainable behavior at the annual general meeting for shareholders (AGM) in London today.

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Exposing the ugly truth about Rio Tinto

IndustriALL Global Union has produced a report released today; “Unsustainable: The Ugly Truth about Rio Tinto” highlighting the multinational’s global practices. And today, workers from numerous countries will stage a protest outside Rio Tinto’s AGM over the ugly truth behind its global operations.

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Brax “Feels Good” over labour rights violations at Lafem in Turkey

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Organizing displaced women in India

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19th April 2014, 16:10

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Unions and management at the Turnhout H.J.Heinz plant in Belgium have reached an agreement on a social plan and packages to compensate the job loses for almost 190 employees after the factory shuts down.

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20th April 2014, 17:10

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Global unions the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) and IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural and Hospitality Workers) today applauded the steps forward made in preventing often shocking abuse of crews on fishing vessels in New Zealand waters.

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24th April 2014, 15:40

Ecuador: Free jailed union leaders now

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Ecuador's populist president must stop persecuting labour and social leaders. That's the message we're asking trade unionists around the world to send today to Rafael Correa.

An online campaign (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=fd010161f6&e=4e93ef2fad) launched today on LabourStart is expected to generate thousands of messages calling on Correa to free Dr Carlos Figueroa, ex-leader of the Ecuadorian Medical Federation, Cléver Jiménez Cabrera, the Pachakutik Movement parliamentarian, his advisor, Fernando Villavicencio Valencia, ex-leader of the oil workers' trade union, and Mary Zamora, ex-president of the National Union of Teachers.

The jailed union leaders had asked the public prosecutor to investigate the propriety of the President’s order for military intervention to "rescue" him from the National Police Hospital in Quito during a political crisis in September 2010. The violent military action resulted in a number of deaths.

Correa accused the union leaders of "hacking" his email; they claim they were merely investigating corruption.

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BANGLADESH: The Solidarity Center is in the process of launching a fundraising drive for union organizers in Bangladesh's garment industry. Union organizers are regularly getting attacked, beaten, etc., now that the Bangladesh government has agreed to register unions (after the US pulled its GSP status last year). (Read more about this here (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=38a2d3ff73&e=4e93ef2fad). ) Organizers are garment workers and have few resources. If they are attacked, they face hospital and medical expenses and sometimes must go into hiding with their families for safety. The Solidarity Center has just set up a donation page (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=8dd4f0ce80&e=4e93ef2fad) for them, to enable the organizing work to continue. Please donate generously.

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24th April 2014, 21:46

CALL NOW: Sit-in at UNC needs your support

Dear Chris,

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse, the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the garment industry, which claimed the lives of 1,136 garment workers and injured hundreds more. To commemorate this tragedy and call for change, unions in Bangladesh are holding rallies and staging human chains in the streets of Dhaka, demanding brands take responsibility for the safety of their workers.

Students are standing at their side. Today, students at over 30 universities across the US are holding die-ins, study-ins, and sit-ins to cut ties with VF Corporation and other companies that have refused to sign the Bangladesh Safety Accord. Moments ago, students at my campus, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, entered the office of Chancellor Carol Folt demanding that she cut ties with VF Corporation and require our brands to sign the Accord.

Call Chancellor Folt right now at (919) 962-1365 and demand that she listen to the students in her office and require UNC’s brands sign the Bangladesh Safety Accord now.

Students at UNC have been campaigning for more than eight months, but our administration has let us know that the lives of Bangladeshi workers are not their priority. Despite the recommendation of the Licensing and Labor Code Advisory Committee and support from the Progressive Faculty Network, Chapel Hill Town Council, Student Congress, the Chapel Hill Carrboro NAACP, the Human Rights Center in Carrboro, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and many others for the Accord, we just got word that the university is trying to allow its brands to get away with joining a fake, non-binding program that excludes unions spearheaded by VF Corporation called the “Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety.”

We’ve run a long campaign, delivering countless letters, sitting in hours of frustrating meetings with administrators, getting petition signatures, doing direct actions, and even bringing two Bangladeshi garment workers to campus to tell their stories. But even after hearing directly from a Rana Plaza survivor, Chancellor Folt and UNC system President Tom Ross have allowed the university to be bullied by North Carolina apparel giant VF Corporation into supporting the company’s fake safety program.

Call UNC system president Tom Ross at (919) 962-1000 and tell him that you stand with the students calling for an end to VF deathtraps.

If you can get through to Chancellor Folt or President Tom Ross, great – if not, leave a message on her voicemail or with whoever answers. Here’s a sample message:

"Hi, my name is _________, and I’m calling to support students from UNC who are in Chancellor Folt’s office right now. It’s shocking to me that in the face of overwhelming student support, UNC still refuses to cut ties with VF Corporation, a notorious worker rights abuser, and require its brands to sign the Accord. UNC should take a stand for human rights and worker safety by immediately cutting ties with VF and saying 'no' to VF’s fake safety plan.”

Thank you all for your support!

In solidarity,

Olivia Abrecht
UNC Student Action with Workers
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25th April 2014, 15:30

[email protected] #88 - Brands’ commitment to Rana Plaza compensation fund woefully inadequate

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Brands’ commitment to Rana Plaza compensation fund woefully inadequate

A year after one of the deadliest industrial accidents in history, multinational clothing brands are failing to meet the US$40 million target to pay fair compensation to the victims of the Rana Plaza disaster.

More than 1,100 people were killed and a further 2,000 were injured when the eight-storey Rana Plaza garment factory building in the capital Dhaka collapsed on 24 April 2013.

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Los Mineros victory at Teksid

Settlement was reached at 6:30pm on 22 April ending a strike and replacing the CTM with Los Mineros as the official bargaining partner at Teksid Iron in Monclova, Coahuila.

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Historic victory for CUT metalworkers in Brazil

The CNM/CUT, an affiliate of IndustriALL Global Union, has signed a unique agreement on profit sharing with ThyssenKrupp Elevadores. The company will pay a profit sharing bonus to 2,000 members of 27 metalworkers’ unions affiliated to the CUT in nine states. This is the first such national company agreement to apply only to members of unions affiliated to the same Brazilian trade union central.

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Protests against Crown Holdings scheduled across the globe

IndustriALL and its affiliates are staging a series of protests against U.S. based multinational, Crown Holdings, one of the biggest consumer packaging producers, which brazenly violates workers’ rights in North America and Europe.

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IndustriALL demands justice for South African miners at Anglo American

IndustriALL Global Union joins the National Union of Mineworkers at the Anglo American annual general meeting to demand justice for South African Miners that suffer from the deadly respiratory disease, silicosis, contracted while working in the company’s South African gold mines.

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1st May 2014, 16:52

Tell AB INBEV to respect ruling for reinstatement of dismissed workers in Mexico!

AB INBEV- Respect human rights in Mexico!

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Workers currently face huge hardship as a result of the company's actions including "company blacklisting" and complicit local labour authorities making it practically impossible for dismissed workers and their families to find work locally and in other regions of Mexico.

Thirty three workers continue to insist on reinstatement to their former jobs and their rights fully restored. These 33 workers who have been fighting for justice since 2008 won reinstatement at Vidriera as a result of the ruling of the Conciliation and Arbitration Board at the beginning of April 2014.

CLICK HERE (http://iuf.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=d304536b72&e=090f0b0646) to tell AB InBev to take concrete steps towards fulfilling its human rights obligations by reinstating the workers; recognizing the independent trade union, SUTEIVP; ending the harassment of workers inside the factory and ensuring freedom of association in Mexico.

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1st May 2014, 16:59

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Farmers and agricultural workers in Myanmar denounce land grabs, call for measures to guarantee food rights and sustainable food production (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3315)

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Tell AB INBEV to respect ruling for reinstatement of dismissed workers in Mexico! (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3313)

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3rd May 2014, 15:37

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Tell AB InBev to respect ruling for reinstatement of dismissed workers in Mexico

Despite a court ruling, InBev refuses to reinstate 33 workers who were unfairly dismissed in 2008. Join IndustriALL's and IUF's campaign for the workers' right to return to the workplace and the payment of outstanding wages.

On 26 January 2008, Industria Vidriera del Potosí, a subsidiary of Grupo Modelo-AB InBev, sacked 220 workers including the entire executive committee of the IndustriALL-affiliated glass workers' union SUTEIVP. They did so following the negotiated agreement of a 19 per cent wage increase by the independent union.

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Unions speak out against Crown with field actions

Following the announced series of protest actions scheduled across the globe in conjunction with the annual shareholders meeting of Crown Holdings, IndustriALL Global Union and its affiliates in North America and Europe continue to build resistance against Crown Holdings over bad corporate behaviours around the world.

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UAW and IndustriALL alert OECD to rights abuses at Nissan USA

IndustriALL Global Union has joined United Auto Workers (UAW) in formally informing the OECD about violations of workers’ organizing rights at the giant Nissan auto assembly plant in Mississippi, USA.

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Fatal accident at Holcim plant in India

On 28 April, a 32-year old contract worker, who had been with the ACC-Holcim plant at Jamul, India, for ten years, was crushed to death by a falling tree. The workplace accident occurred while gathering firewood for the coal mill.

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Support striking paper workers in Indonesia

A second round of strikes has begun at one of the Asia Pulp and Paper - Sinar Mas factories in Indonesia. Among other things, the striking paper workers from the Pindo Deli Paper Workers' Union demand negotiations on the minimum wage.

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New FLOC Campaign to Bring Justice to Tobacco Farm Workers (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3323)

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Nanotechnology: Booming Below the Radar (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3318)

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Companies investing in nanotechnology - the manipulation of natural and synthetic materials at the atomic and molecular level - have learned from the GM debate and have toned down announcements of their research and the commercial introduction of new products. Yet the French government estimates that there are more than 3,400 nanotech products in the marketplace. There is still no known method for limiting, controlling or even measuring human exposure to nanomaterials and processes in or outside the workplace.

Explosive growth in UK zero-hours contracts (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3317)

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The latest UK Government figures put the number of workers on zero-hours employment contracts at 1.4 million, a steep increase over previous estimates. One fourth of all employees in the food, catering and tourism sector are employed on these contracts, and 50% of the employers in these sectors make use of them.

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5th May 2014, 17:28

Indonesia: Support strikers at one of the world's largest paper mills

It will take you less than a minute to help these striking workers.

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Striking workers at one of the world's largest paper mills need our support.

In March, Indonesian paper workers went on strike to demand that management return to negotiations, and to discuss the minimum wage rate established in the district Governor.

Four rounds of negotiations failed and the company called in the army and police against the strikers and declared the strike illegal.

These workers are asking for each of us to take less than a minute of our time and send off messages calling on management to reopen negotiations, to stop criminalizing the strike and to end repression.

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9th May 2014, 23:29

[email protected] #90 - Napoleón Gómez awarded Arthur Svensson prize

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Napoleón Gómez awarded Arthur Svensson prize

Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, the heroic head of the Mexican mineworkers union, Los Mineros, won this year’s Arthur Svensson International Prize for trade union rights. The famous leader once again presided over his union’s congress last week remotely from exile in Canada.

IndustriALL general secretary Jyrki Raina congratulated Napoleón after having marched with Los Mineros on May Day and delivered solidarity greetings to the historic Zocalo Square in Mexico City together with Los Mineros and other independent unions.

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Victory for Greek Shipbuilding Workers!

A two year trade union solidarity campaign achieves legal victory for Greek shipbuilders imprisoned for organizing at IndustriALL Global Union affiliate POEM.

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NLRB issues sweeping complaint against FirstEnergy

The U.S. National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint charging FirstEnergy (FE), its operating companies West Penn Power and Potomac Edison, and other FE subsidiaries with a wide range of unfair labour practices during ongoing negotiations with the Utility Workers Union of America for a new labour agreement covering more than 700 workers throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia.

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Workers strike over slave wages at Crabtree in Lesotho

A strike led by the Factory Workers’ Union (FAWU) at Crabtree Lesotho, has entered its third week as the electrical accessories manufacturer stubbornly refuses to negotiate with the union.

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Philippines: Entire union executive sacked for refusing to work on national holiday

IndustriALL Global Union’s metalworker affiliate in the Philippines MWAP is fighting back against a mass sacking on 5 May of 24 union officials at NXP Semiconductors in Cabuyao, Laguna. Management and government is colluding to bust the union, one of the few that successfully organizes workers in the country’s Free Trade Zones.

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10th May 2014, 16:54

Union-busting in the Philippines: Company sacks entire union executive

24 sacked union officers need our help today.

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A company in the Philippines has sacked all 24 officers of the trade union rather than bargain collectively.

NXP Semiconductors didn't like its employees joining a union, which is a rare thing in the country's free trade zones, and have determined to bust the union.

One of the ones they sacked is Reden Alcantra, the president of the national metalworkers union.

We are calling on NXP to reinstate the union officials, to resume negotiations, and to respect workers' rights.

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Organizing, Fighting & Winning against land grabs in Myanmar (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3342)

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The campaign against land grabs escalated across Myanmar following the resolution of the First Congress of the Agriculture and Farmers' Federation of Myanmar (AFFM-IUF) (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3315) giving priority to land rights and access to land as integral to winning food rights and a sustainable food system.

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14th May 2014, 16:54

Rising Death Toll Turns Mine Accident in Turkey to Carnage

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Rising Death Toll Turns Mine Accident in Turkey to Carnage

IndustriALL Global Union and its worldwide family mourn the deaths of hundreds of mineworkers in Soma, Manisa province in Western Turkey. As of the time of writing, 205 miners are dead and more than 80 are hospitalized. Rescue efforts continue to safeguard hundreds more miners trapped underground. Oxygen is still being pumped into the mine, however hopes are diminishing.

Belonging to a private company, the mine is organized by IndustriALL’s affiliate Maden-İş, Mineworkers’ Union of Turkey. Around 800 miners were in and around the mine when an electrical fault triggered a transformer to explode causing a large fire around noon time on Tuesday 13 May. The fire caused a power cut in the mine rendering mine cages unusable and the majority of workers trapped 2km underground and 4km from the exit. Rescue efforts have continued through the night while families of the over 200 unaccounted for miners wait at the mine’s entrance and in the local hospital.

Turkey’s record on mine safety is poor, and IndustriALL labels the deaths of mineworkers as carnage. Every death in a mine is avoidable and IndustriALL’s campaign for ratification of the ILO Convention 176 will continue in Turkey and elsewhere. Pressure is already building on Turkey’s government, criticized for ignoring safety warnings while workers pay with their lives.

Nurettin Akçul, General President and Vedat Ünal, General Secretary of Maden-İş report that the blast occurred at the time of a shift change, making it more difficult to know how many miners are still trapped underground. The Maden-İş leaders report that: “the mine is registered with necessary legal certification, all workers are covered by social security. The local union reps confirm that all workers are equipped with oxygen masks underground, but nobody knows how long the masks can keep them alive in this situation.”

The survival rate for coal miners following explosions or fires is extremely low, as compared to accidents in mines for hard rock or metal. The rescue must happen as quickly as possible following an explosion in a coal mine if those trapped are to be brought out alive. IndustriALL and everybody watching hopes that this case will be the exception to the rule. Carbon monoxide poisoning is the biggest threat to those still trapped underground.
IndustriALL Global Union wrote today to Maden-İş:

"This tragedy must rank as the worst mining tragedy in recent memory, and is made all the more tragic by the seemingly uncaring attitude of the government and mining companies. This attitude is unacceptable and must come to an end. It is intolerable that mine workers in Turkey are denied their basic human right to work in an environment that guarantees their safety, and that instead they are expected to go to work to die.

"The number of mineworkers involved in the fatal accident is mind-boggling and staggering. We call upon the private company operating the mine and the government of Turkey to ensure that as many miners as possible of the 400 still remaining in the mine pit be rescued.

"Turkey has possibly the worst safety record in terms of mining accidents and explosions in Europe and the third worst one in the world. As recently as 7 January 2013, eight mine workers lost their lives in another mine-related accident, which the President of your sister organization Genel Maden-Is correctly labelled as “killing” of mine workers.

"As a matter of urgency, IndustriALL Global Union calls upon the Turkish government to immediately ratify and implement ILO’s Convention 176 on Safety and Health in Mines to save the lives of mine workers. The “killing” must stop. IndustriALL Global Union will do everything in their power to ensure that the Turkish government act responsibly and ratify Convention 176. We once again call upon the political authorities to take the lives of mineworkers seriously and to place it above profit."

“Turkish Government and employers have responsibility for this carnage,” said Kemal Özkan, IndustriALL Global Union’s assistant general secretary. “When governments fail to protect their citizens, it is not merely irresponsible; it is a breach of one of the most fundamental duties entrusted to any government. Turkey aspires to greatness, and it can achieve it: but not at the cost of workers' lives.”

According to the official records, in 73 years more than 3000 miners have been killed in Turkey. We are watching in trepidation knowing that this accident has the potential to become the worst. Enough is enough, Turkey’s government must act now, my country’s miners cannot continue to pay with their lives for their inaction in dangerous mines.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE LAST 30 YEARS IN TURKEY’S MINES:
7 March 1983: 103 killings in Armutçuk with methane explosion
10 April 1983: 10 killings in Kozlu with methane explosion
31 January 1987: 8 killings in Kozlu with dent
31 January 1990: 5 killings in Amasra with methane explosion
7 February 1990: 68 killings in Yeni Çeltik with methane explosion
3 March 1992: 263 killings in Kozlu with methane explosion
26 March 1995: 37 killings in Sorgun with methane explosion
22 November 2003: 10 killings in Ermenek with methane explosion
8 September 2004: 19 killings in Küre with fire
2 June 2006: 17 killings in Dursunbey with methane explosion
10 December 2009: 19 killings in Mustafakemalpaşa with methane explosion
17 May 2010: 30 killings in Zonguldak with methane explosion
8 January 2013: 8 killings in Kozlu with methane explosion
13 May 2014: 157 (so far killings) in Soma with fire

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[email protected] #91 - Rising death toll turns mine accident in Turkey to carnage

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Rising death toll turns mine accident in Turkey to carnage

IndustriALL Global Union and its worldwide family mourn the deaths of hundreds of mineworkers in Soma, Manisa province in Western Turkey. As of the time of writing, 205 miners are dead and more than 80 are hospitalized. Rescue efforts continue to safeguard hundreds more miners trapped underground. Oxygen is still being pumped into the mine, however hopes are diminishing.

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BP must ensure its contractor Toll respects union and pays decent wages in New Zealand

IndustriALL Global Union is calling on BP to ensure respect for workers in its supply chain as tanker driver contractor Toll pays salaries a third lower than national standard and refuses to bargain in with FIRST Union in New Zealand.

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One year anniversary of the Bangladesh Accord

One year ago today on 15 May 2013 history was made when a ground-breaking agreement brokered by IndustriALL Global Union and Uni Global Union to make a safer garment industry in Bangladesh was signed by 17 clothing brands.

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In the U.S., Huhtamaki Takes the Low Road

A new report on Huhtamaki, a Finnish packaging company, reveals how the company’s expansion strategy in the U.S. is creating low-wage, precarious employment while threatening the job security and living standards of unionized employees.

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Building trade union power in Latin America

“IndustriALL, IndustriALL, we are fighting for social justice!” chanted the more than 70 women delegates at the Latin America Regional Conference, as they applauded the plenary’s unanimous approval of a resolution to increase the women’s representation quota to 40% in IndustriALL structures, executive committee and leadership positions.

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20th May 2014, 21:20

[LaborTech] Take 90 seconds to find out what happened in the basement

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A man is called down to the basement of a New York store. Interrogated by T-Mobile company managers for hours, he is told to vote no to the union. This is the true story of the Harlem 7 -- a group of workers who stood up to company oppression and voted to form a union. T-Mobile USA is owned by the German company Deutsche Telekom. Share this video and tell @Tmobile @deutschetelekom #WeExpectBetter

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20th May 2014, 21:30

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KFC Thailand harasses workers for attending IUF meeting (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3356)

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Only few days after her return from the 1st IUF International Fast Food Workers' meeting in New York (click here for more) a union representative has been summoned and threatened with legal action from YUM! BRANDS' managers, which owns famous fast food brands such as KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, for simply having attended that meeting.

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Domestic Workers' International welcomed into IUF (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3355)

Posted: 19 May 2014 04:39 AM PDT

At its meeting in Geneva on May 15-16, the IUF Executive Committee unanimously accepted the International Domestic Workers' Federation's, IDWF's, request to become a special group within the IUF.

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21st May 2014, 23:16

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IUF Executive Committee calls on PepsiCo to stop smashing human rights! (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3358)

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The IUF's governing Executive Committee met in Geneva, Switzerland May 15, 16 and welcomed the launch of the "PepsiSmash" international campaign in support of PepsiCo warehouse workers in India.

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Austria's PRO-GE says stop the EU-US trade negotiations! (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3369)

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The IUF's Austrian affiliate representing food and agricultural workers, PRO-GE, has issued a call for action to stop the negotiations on the EU-US trade agreement, the TTIP.

Young fast food workers organize in Israel (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3364)

Posted: 21 May 2014 06:06 AM PDT

On May 15, fast food workers in Israel joined the global action on International Fast Food Workers' Day by highlighting achievements in organizing and gaining recognition.

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27th May 2014, 23:08

Workers at the world's largest caterer for travellers need our solidarity

You may never have heard of Autogrill, but you know their owners.

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I have just come back from Germany where I learned about a company that I'd never heard of before.

Autogrill, it turns out, is the world's largest provider of catering and retail services for travellers. They have shops and restaurants along motorways, in railway stations and in airports in 43 countries. With 75,000 employees, it is a gigantic corporation and it's owned by the people who own Benetton.

They can afford to pay their workers decent wages -- but they don't.

The company is refusing to consider paying more than what will be the minimum wage in Germany.

As a result, a strike began at several Autogrill locations in Germany on 16 April.

Those low-paid workers need a strong show of international solidarity to know that they are not alone, that workers in many countries know about their difficult struggle with their employer -- and that we are on their side.

It will take you only a few second to show your support -- please do so by clicking on this link:

The campaign can be found at http://www.labourstart.org/go/autogrill -- please spread the word in your union, to your friends, your family and your co-workers.

Together we can win this fight.

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28th May 2014, 17:33

Our voices were heard and our solidarity felt

Our successful campaign at Autogrill has now been suspended.

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Less than 24 hours ago, I wrote to you asking for your support in the struggle of Autogrill workers in Germany for decent wages.

Your response was overwhelming.

Nearly 5,600 of you were quick to send off email messages to the company urging management to reach an agreement with the workers.

The reaction of Autogrill's management was swift as well.

Within hours of the launch of our campaign, a representative of their Legal Department got in touch with LabourStart to demand that we stop sending them messages.

They specifically wrote that "we will not tolerate the sending of further messages". (That's right -- they actually said "will not tolerate" -- as if we needed their permission).

And they added that if we didn't stop at once "we will start the necessary legal proceedings to protect our interest".

In other words, your voices were heard.

You overwhelmed the company with your messages of support.

And the striking workers know this as well, they know about the solidarity they've been receiving from thousands of workers around the world.

The NGG union in Germany had to take a decision what to do, because this is their campaign and it is their members on the picket line.

After consultation with their lawyers, the union has asked us to suspend this successful campaign and to thank you all for your support.

I am very proud of what we have done, and this is yet another demonstration of the power of online campaigning for the global trade union movement.

It is also important to emphasize that LabourStart only campaigns at the request of trade unions, and we are guided by those unions in decisions about when and if to close campaigns.

Now that you've gotten the attention of Autogrill management, please make sure that you're supporting all our other current campaigns too -- click here (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=3878cad542&e=4e93ef2fad).

Solidarity forever!

Thank you.

Eric Lee
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29th May 2014, 16:56

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Strike threat brings wage increase for Norwegian fish industry workers (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3382)

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:44 AM PDT

The Norwegian food workers’ union NNN reached on agreement on wages with the Norwegian Seafood Association (FHL) on May 19, averting a strike set to begin on May 21.

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29th May 2014, 16:56

KFC - Union Buster!

Say no to union-busting by fast food chains!

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A woman union leader from Thailand faces the threat of legal action by the owners of fast food chains KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

Her crime? She attended the first international fast food workers' meeting recently held by the International Union of Food workers (IUF) in New York.

The threat of legal action is not the first time time union members have had problems with this company.

According to the IUF, "In 2011, three workers were terminated after they established a union and sought to bargain a collective agreement with KFC. The three workers were only reinstated by court order months later."

It will take you less than a minute to support the campaign -- please click here to send your message:

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29th May 2014, 21:34

[email protected] #93 - Brands ready to incorporate higher wages in Cambodia

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Brands ready to incorporate higher wages in Cambodia

Global fashion brands and retailers have told the Cambodian government they are willing to accommodate any agreed minimum wage increase in their future purchasing from the country.

IndustriALL Global Union, together with eight international brands, including H&M, GAP, Puma, Levi’s and Inditex, met with the Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon, four senior ministers and other government officials for talks at the Peace Palace in the capital Phnom Penh on Monday 26 May.

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IndustriALL publishes new issue of “Global Worker”

In this issue of “Global Worker” IndustriALL explains how networks in the auto industries and the global framework agreement with garment giant Inditex are helping to defend union rights of millions of workers. Subscribe to receive your hard copies of “Global Worker” or read it online.

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Campaign for mine safety in Turkey targets precarious work

Turkish unions have been vociferous in their campaign against illegal and irresponsible outsourcing and subcontracting in the country on the occasion of the Soma industrial homicide.

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International solidarity helps FIRST Union win at Toll New Zealand

IndustriALL Global Union’s New Zealand affiliate FIRST Union members have won a new collective agreement with significant pay increase at BP contractor Toll.

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IndustriALL solidarity campaign continues for ExCo member Angeline Chitambo’s reinstatement

Angeline Chitambo, President of the Zimbabwe Energy Workers Union (ZEWU) continues her long and bitter fight against the blatant attacks by the state owned Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA).

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3rd June 2014, 19:52

Government of Algeria must recognize NOW workers' right to form independent trade unions

Algeria's bogus elections have come and gone, and Algerian workers continue to be denied their right to form independent trade unions. CLICK HERE TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF ALGERIA! (http://iuf.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=0982e9aa1b&e=090f0b0646)

According to a recent Human Rights Watch report, "Workers in Algeria are stymied at every turn when they try to form independent unions and act collectively. The government punishes peaceful protesters and strikers, including with retaliatory suspensions or dismissals from public service jobs, and arbitrarily arrests and prosecutes union activists on politically motivated charges."

On June 9 last year, unions submitted to the Labour Ministry the legal documents required to register the newly-founded General Autonomous Confederation for Algerian Workers (Confédération générale autonome des travailleurs algériens - CGATA), a national federation of autonomous unions including organizations in the private sector. According to Algerian law, CGATA should have been granted full legal status within 30 days. One year later, it is still waiting for the application to be confirmed.

Legal recognition would facilitate CGATA's ability to function without government interference and repression and to affiliate new unions, including in the private sector where independent unions currently enjoy no legal protection.

The ILO Committee on Freedom of Association has in the past highlighted the Algerian government's violations of Conventions 87 and 98, but this year, for the first time, the ILO's Committee on the Application of Standards will be reviewing Algeria's record on upholding fundamental trade union rights at the International Labour Conference now underway in Geneva. The moment is ripe to tell the Labour Minister and other government officials: register without delay the CGATA and stop violating the human rights of Algerian workers!

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3rd June 2014, 20:30

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Government of Algeria must recognize NOW workers' right to form independent trade unions (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3388)

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Algeria's bogus elections have come and gone, and Algerian workers continue to be denied their right to form independent trade unions. CLICK HERE TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF ALGERIA! (http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=875)

Are nanomaterials the new asbestos? (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3386)

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 06:59 AM PDT

A recent article in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine details the first fully documented case of workplace illness arising from the handling of nanomaterials, that of a 26-year-old female chemist "working with nickel nanoparticle powder weighed out and handled on a lab bench with no protective measures." Within a week of handling small quantities of the powder the worker developed throat and nasal symptoms and skin irritation.

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3rd June 2014, 21:17

PepsiCo rejects US government offer to mediate Indian conflict - what is PepsiCo afraid to talk about?

Tell PepsiCo to remedy human rights abuses!

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US-based snack and beverage giant PepsiCo has rejected an offer by the US government to help mediate the conflict with the IUF over human rights abuses at warehouse operations in West Bengal, India. Why is the company afraid to talk to the IUF?

Between January 5 and April 30, 2013, 162 workers of 170 employed at three West Bengal warehouses contracted exclusively by PepsiCo were dismissed or compelled to resign solely as a consequence of exercising their right to join a union. In May 2013, they were allowed to return to work, but under conditions that strip them of their human rights.

Despite threats, harassment and economic hardship, 28 of these unfairly dismissed workers refused to surrender their rights. In August 2013 they formed the PepsiCo (Frito-Lays) Workers Action Committee and escalated the campaign. In November, the IUF filed a formal complaint against the company with the US government's National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises. The IUF alleged, and documented, multiple violations of the Guidelines, particularly of the chapters on human rights and employment and industrial relations. The NCP accepted the submission and offered both parties the opportunity to seek a solution with the help of a mediator. The IUF welcomed the offer; PepsiCo turned its back.

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4th June 2014, 20:39

Body snatching by Korean police as Samsung struggle heats up

Samsung workers on strike for the right to have a union.

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This sounds more like a horror movie than one of our usual campaigns on LabourStart. But it's all true.

A few days ago, a leader of a new union at Samsung in South Korea named YEOM, Ho-seok took his own life to protest the vicious anti-union policies of the company. At his funeral, 300 police stormed in, arrested 25 mourners and absconded with his body.

That's right: the police took away Yeom's body.

The police apparently cremated the body against Yeom's dying wishes, and have meanwhile jailed two other leaders of the Samsung workers union who dared to protest the raid on the funeral.

All this takes place against the background of the attempts by workers at electronics giant Samsung to organize a union. The workers have been on indefinite strike.

Samsung workers have the right to a trade union. Their union, the Korean Metal Workers Union, has launched a big campaign online demanding that the Korean president intervene to release the prisoners, end anti-union repression at Samsung, and launch an independent investigation of the police raid and body-snatching.

I hope that I can count on your support. Please click here to send your message:

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After that, please share this message widely -- let's mobilize thousands of trade unionists around the world and show the Korean government, and Samsung, that these authoritarian tactics are completely unacceptable.

Thank you.

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5th June 2014, 18:57

Big victory for workers' rights at the United Nations

14,000 messages from LabourStart supporters played a key role.

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Eight months ago, I wrote to all of you asking you to support a campaign for workers' rights at the United Nations.

On 11 July last year, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon derecognized the staff unions representing the organization's 65,000 staff, many working in dangerous locations and war zones. I asked you to join me in sending off protest messages to Ban Ki-moon, and you did in your thousands.

This week, I learned that our efforts paid off.

According to Ian Richards, President of the Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations, "the campaign by UN unions to restore the recognition rights of UN staff has secured a successful outcome.

"On behalf of the unions of the United Nations, I would like to thank you, LabourStart and your 14,000 members who sent emails to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for their fantastic support during the campaign. Your efforts helped persuade the Secretary-General and his team that the UN should live up to its principles on human rights and labour representation."

You can read the full text of Ian's message here (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=9b9def2fde&e=4e93ef2fad).

I thank you too -- we did well.

And we demonstrated yet again the incredible power of the new communications technologies when combined with traditional trade union solidarity.

Have a great weekend!

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5th June 2014, 19:28

[email protected] #94 - Global unions welcome release of Cambodian protestors

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Global unions welcome release of Cambodian protestors

Global unions have welcomed the release of 23 Cambodian wage protestors arrested following demonstrations in January but remain concerned at the severity of the court verdict and the lack of a fair trial.

After considerable pressure and campaigning both locally and internationally by IndustriALL Global Union, the ITUC and UNI Global Union, as well as support from NGOs and fashion brands, the 23 workers were released following a Phnom Penh court verdict on Friday 30 May.

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Stop regression to Korea's authoritarian past!

IndustriALL and its afffiliate Korean Metal Workers' Union calls on South Korean President Park Geun-hye to take immediate measures to implement labour supervisory mechanisms to stop Samsung labour repression and ensure it collectively bargains with the KMWU local to conclude a living wage and collective agreement.

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IndustriALL regional living wage workshop

Meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, affiliates from across Asia discussed strategies and mechanisms for delivering living wage outcomes for workers

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IndustriALL forms global communicators’ network

Communicators from IndustriALL Global Union affiliates in over 30 countries gathered in Italy this week to exchange ideas and determine how to better work and campaign together to improve workers' rights.

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Hugo Gonzalez Chirico, Paraguayan trade unionist on hunger strike

In a weak voice, after suffering periods of sickness and nausea, Hugo Gonzales Chirico, union leader at ACEPAR, explained his determination to continue the hunger strike he began on 22 May, in defence of workers’ rights. He condemned Paraguay’s political class in power which, he said is complicit with the pseudo-employers who ride roughshod over human and labour rights.

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6th June 2014, 19:42

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In Las Vegas, UNITE HERE! Local 226 concludes negotiations for 44.000 hotel workers

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The latest settlements at the Golden Gate Hotel and Casino conclude the Culinary and Bartenders Unions' year-long citywide contract negotiations for 44,000 housekeepers, cooks, food servers, cleaners, cocktail servers at major casino-hotels on the Las Vegas Strip and Downtown Las Vegas.

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7th June 2014, 18:34

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Campaign success at KFC Thailand (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3405)

Posted: 06 Jun 2014 10:37 PM PDT

The IUF campaign to stop the harassment of union leaders at KFC Thailand (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3356) has succeeded in stopping management from threatening and harassing union leaders. Changes are underway at the company which the union believes have opened space for KFC workers to access their rights and fight for a living wage. The union has expressed its appreciation to the many thousands who responded to the campaign with messages to the company.

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9th June 2014, 16:06

Is there a right to strike?

The right to strike is under attack at the ILO.

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I wanted to raise four issues with you today -- this will be a longer email than usual, but this is all important.

First of all, the internationally-recognized legal right to strike is under attack as never before. This month, as the International Labor Organization meets in Geneva, it's important to spread the word in unions everywhere about what is happening -- and how unions at global level are fighting back. I encourage you to read the International Trade Union Confederation's statement and report here (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=dcbb0691a5&e=4e93ef2fad) and to listen to the Radio Labour interview (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=d4d5f637fa&e=4e93ef2fad) with the ITUC's Jeff Vogt on the issue.

Second, I'm very pleased that over 7,600 of you have already signed up to support our campaign (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=d91e68722d&e=4e93ef2fad) in defense of Samsung workers in Korea. But we can do better than that. Your union -- at local, regional and national levels -- probably has a mailing list of members. Please try to get your union to spread the word about this campaign to the members. Together, we can double or even triple the number of supporters of the campaign (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=62d5e565d7&e=4e93ef2fad).

Third, this week we suspended our three-month-old campaign to pressure companies to make donations to the Rana Plaza fund set up to help families after the terrible disaster in Bangladesh in April 2013. Though a number of companies felt the pressure and made donations, as IndustriALL global union pointed out, the corporate response was "woefully inadequate" (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=32ba8a0c33&e=4e93ef2fad).

And finally, a reminder that LabourStart has now published four books (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=b61d039985&e=4e93ef2fad) that we believe are essential reading for trade unionists everywhere. The books cover a wide range of topics from online campaigning to the history of the labour movement and are all available as both paperbacks and e-books. They should be used widely in union education, in training campaigns and communications staff, and throughout our movement. Check out the full list here (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=30152abe0c&e=4e93ef2fad).

Thanks very much.

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11th June 2014, 21:12

Victory in Thailand - and a new struggle in Turkey

Online campaigns work! Just ask the workers at KFC in Thailand.

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We've just had some great news: The IUF campaign targetting KFC Thailand which we told you about a few days ago has succeeded in stopping management from threatening and harassing union leaders. (The IUF's short statement is here (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=6cc8515630&e=4e93ef2fad).)

Online campaigns work, and we can celebrate our win in Thailand -- but the struggle for justice and dignity for workers continues elsewhere.

A Turkish company that produces advertising displays for businesses in the USA, Germany, Denmark and elsewhere, has fired 45 workers -- because they dared to join a trade union. The company, M&T Reklam, did this even though the Ministry of Labour had recognized that the union represented a majority of their workers. The union -- DİSK Birleşik Metal İş -- together with IndustriALL Global Union has called for an online protest campaign (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=7e5566a560&e=4e93ef2fad) to pressure the employer to reinstate the sacked workers:

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Please take 30 seconds to send an email to the company and to some of its key customers to bring worldwide pressure to bear.

And then please spread the word in your union.

Thanks very much.

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14th June 2014, 16:23

[email protected] #95 - Birlesik Metal-Is fights against union busting

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Birlesik Metal-Is fights against union busting by M&T Reklam

Workers at M&T Reklam, a major Turkish producer of advertising and point-of-sale displays, are fighting back against the mass sackings of union members in a series of pickets at two of the company’s plants.

The pickets are in protest at the unlawfully dismissal of 45 union members at M&T Reklam’s plants in the cities of Gebze (22) and Duzce (23).

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NXP workers fight for illegally dismissed colleagues

Marking the first month anniversary of the illegal dismissals of 24 union officials at NXP Cabuyao in the Philippines, protesters picketed in front of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

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Garment industry sourcing model fundamentally flawed

A new report from the Clean Clothes Campaign is further evidence that the garment industry supply chain is unsustainable and unjust, no matter where it is in the world.

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Ukraine: continued struggle for payment of wages

Steel, coal and peat mining workers in different regions of Ukraine have been picketing their employers and governmental agencies demanding a wage increase and an elimination of wage arrears.

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CSR - Colombian Sponsorship Ruse?

The Canadian oil giant Pacific Rubiales Energy is renowned in Colombia for its exploitative practices towards workers, indigenous communities, the environment and the economy. In an attempt to whitewash its image the company is now sponsoring the Colombian World Cup team.

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14th June 2014, 16:27

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IUF and ITF welcome Thai fisher slavery exposé (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3426)

Posted: 13 Jun 2014 09:53 AM PDT
13 June 2014

Two international union federations working together to fight appalling exploitation of fishery workers have applauded this week’s exposé by the UK’s Guardian newspaper of the use of slave labour in the Thai prawn industry.

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17th June 2014, 14:29

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Act now to support German Autogrill workers in fight for basic pay

Brazilian unions tell World Cup visitors: workers build Brazil and workers need change!

Spain: High Court orders Coca-Cola Iberia Partners to reverse 1,190 firings and 4 plant closures

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Workers at 5 Autogrill service station outlets have been taking indefinite strike action for better pay since 16 April. The Company is currently paying new employees €7.00 per hour in East Germany and €8.00 in West Germany.

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A coalition of Brazil's national union confederations, acting through the umbrella Workers Trade Union Forum (Fórum Sindical dos Trabalhadores-FST), are targeting visitors to the World Cup games to focus attention on the poor pay and working conditions of Brazil's workers and their joint demands.

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On June 13 Spain’s High Court ordered the Spanish Coca-Cola Bottler CCIP to reverse its decision to fire 1,190 workers as a result of their plans to close 4 plants.

Whilst no doubt CCIP will try to appeal the outcome this represents a major victory for the IUF’s Spanish affiliates and on behalf of our entire membership and all those who supported this campaign the IUF congratulates those Spanish workers for their determined fight to save these jobs.

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17th June 2014, 15:10

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Boycott IKEA: Some Assembly Required

Doug Nesbitt

Locked out for thirteen months, over three hundred IKEA workers in Richmond, BC are still holding out. While setting record profits in 2013, IKEA is trying to impose a two-tier wage system and seriously weaken benefits. The stakes are high as IKEA Richmond sets workplace standards for non-union IKEA stores. Of the twelve IKEA stores in Canada and Quebec, it is the only one unionized outside of Montreal where workers are represented by the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN). Teamsters Local 213 represents the workers in Richmond.

One of the shop stewards at IKEA Richmond, Dorothy “Dot” Tompkins explains: “We're the flagship store in North America. They've kept the union out of other stores by giving them what we get. Whatever we lose, they'll lose.”

The fight is a difficult one. Of the 350 unionized workers, 36 crossed the picket line at the outset. Two more have since crossed the line. IKEA Richmond workers are also conducting daily information pickets outside the IKEA Coquitlam, although the pickets cannot legally disrupt the business.

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3rd July 2014, 22:25

IndustriALL slams ban on Turkish glass workers’ strike

Jun 27, 2014

In a blatant act of oppression, the Turkish government has banned a strike by 6,000 glass workers under the pretext that it breaches health and safety and national security.

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Striking glass workers before the ban

The strike, launched on 20 June by IndustriALL Global Union affiliate Kristal-İş, mobilized 5,800 unionists at ten factories belonging to Turkey’s largest glass producer, Sisecam.

Under Turkish law, the government can issue a decree to postpone, and effectively ban, a strike for 60 days if it is prejudicial to public health or national security.

In a strongly-worded letter to the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Erdoğan, IndustriALL’s general secretary Jyrki Raina stated:

“We vehemently protest your decree, as it is completely unacceptable to IndustriALL Global Union and its affiliates worldwide. It constitutes a clear attack on the right to strike, which is one of the fundamental workers’ rights, guaranteed by the conventions - which have been ratified by the Turkish government - and the jurisprudence of the International Labour Organization.”

Multinational corporation, Sisecam, is one of Europe’s largest companies employing 18,000 people in eight different countries. Glass workers at the firm are striking for better wages and working conditions.

In the recent past, Turkey has come under attack for unlawfully banning strikes in the glass and rubber industry. The Turkish State Council said that strikes in these sectors could never breach “general health and national security”.

The International Labour Organization also criticized the government for obstructing Freedom of Association by prohibiting strikes in the sector on the grounds of national security, despite no apparent threat.

“We call on the Turkish government to protect the rights of workers in line with international norms and standards instead of securing business interests. Furthermore, we strongly believe that your government must respond in the face of the industrial homicide in Soma, which killed 301 miners and left 432 children without fathers,” wrote Raina.

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4th August 2014, 23:52

Egypt: union leaders reinstated

IUF and Mondelez International reach settlement in Egypt

The IUF and Mondelez International have welcomed the settlement of the dispute at Alexandria, Egypt, around the status of five executive committee members of an independent union who were suspended in July 2012.

Mondelez in Egypt has now reinstated all five executive committee members under their former conditions with no negative consequences to them and with full retroactive wages and benefits guaranteed.

Elections for the new term of the union executive committee at the plant will take place shortly. All five former union executive committee members will be entitled to stand.

This brings the long-running labour conflict in Alexandria to an end. Both local parties have committed to seek to resolve future challenges in a good-faith and constructive manner and, beyond Egypt, Mondelez International and the IUF have agreed to discuss the lessons learnt from this conflict.”

The IUF wishes to sincerely thank all those who participated in this campaign by sending messages to Mondelez International and for distributing the information to enable others to participate.
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23rd August 2014, 00:21

Airline sacks cabin crew union leader - call for global protest campaign

LOT Polish Airlines is trying to break a union - let's work together to stop them.

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Andrzej Jeżewski.

LOT Polish Airlines has sacked Andrzej Jeżewski, the Vice President of its cabin crew union, in an attempt to disrupt ongoing collective bargaining negotiations.

This is a brazen violation of trade union rights -- and is part of a broader offensive by Polish employers which are now the subject of three ongoing LabourStart campaigns.

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And if you've not yet done so, please support our other campaigns in support of Polish workers fighting against a vicious anti-union offensive:

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- Stop union-busting at Chopin airport (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=72bc509646&e=4e93ef2fad)

Finally, please do spread the word about these important campaigns.

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29th August 2014, 05:35

Thailand: Drop the charges against labour activist

Andy's trial starts on Tuesday - please act today.

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British migrant rights activist Andy Hall faces 7 years imprisonment and $10 million in damages from lawsuits brought by Thai pineapple company Natural Fruit.

Hall's research for workers' rights NGO Finnwatch found serious abuses at Natural Fruit’'s pineapple factory including child labour, illegally low wages, confiscation of identity documents and violence.

Rather than address issues, Natural Fruit tried to silence Andy with bogus lawsuits.

The first of several criminal trials begins on Tuesday 2 September.

Please support the online campaign demanding that the charges against Andy be dropped:

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15th September 2014, 05:27

Victory at Autogrill as striking workers get a collective agreement

Thank you - your support helped contribute to this important win.

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Back in May we launched a campaign on LabourStart in support of striking German workers at Autogrill. 5,930 of you signed up to support it.

That campaign, called by the NGG union and its global union federation (the IUF), has now resulted in a victory.

The IUF has issued this statement:

The German Food Workers Union (NGG) have announced a successful conclusion to their fight for a first-ever collective agreement at Autogrill Germany, where workers in Bavaria and Thuringia have been holding strikes since April. On September 9, Autogrill Germany announced it would be joining the national employer organization for the sector, which would bring Autogrill employees under the national collective agreement for the sector. The NGG has warmly thanked the many thousands who supported the campaign.

It's always great to report a victory -- but I'd like to ask you to do more:

Make sure you're supporting ALL eight of our current online campaigns. Workers on the picket line, workers who have been the victims of employer-initiated violence, workers who have been locked out -- they all need your support:

Peru/Colombia: Prosegur must denounce threats and attacks on trade unionists (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=b7193d5d20&e=4e93ef2fad)

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Poland: Solidarity with workers at LIDL (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=bb1c08c5d1&e=4e93ef2fad)

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25th September 2014, 21:33

24 workers sacked for joining a union - will you help us?

Workers at Deva in Turkey need our help today.

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IndustriALL Global Union's Turkish affiliate union Petrol-Is is fighting against union busting by pharmaceutical manufacturer Deva Holding.

The count of the dismissed workers has reached 24, sacked simply for signing up with the union.
This is illegal, it is wrong, and it is time for Deva to stop.

Please help us with our latest ActNOW campaign -

Learn more and sign up to send your message of protest: http:/www.labourstart.org/go/deva

Forward this email to your friends, family and fellow union members -- encourage them to support the campaign too.

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18th December 2014, 22:48

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1 million workers strike across Indonesia

On 10 December, 1 million members of Indonesian trade union confederations KSPI, KSBSI and KSPSI went on strike demanding wage increases after president Joko Widodo upped fuel prices. In Jakarta 50,000 people marched to the President’s Palace to voice their demands.

The day of action follows on demonstrations one week earlier, where unions reacted to the new minimum wage for 2015. Minimum wage in Indonesia is set according to the province of the country.

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National general strike in Belgium rejects austerity

The largest industrial action in Belgium for 20 years was conducted jointly on 15 December by the country’s two union confederations, FGTB-ABVV and ACV-CSC. The historic general strike brought transport and businesses to a standstill as workers loudly protested against deep government austerity measures.

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Community teams with Tesco to improve its UK garment supply chain

British trade union, Community, has signed a groundbreaking agreement with retailer Tesco to improve conditions in its UK garment supply chain.

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Australia: end of eight-week lockout at Otis

For eight weeks, workers at Otis Elevators in Australia were locked out as management refused to pay the same rates and conditions as other elevator companies in Australia. Yesterday, Otis conceded and trade unions reached an agreement with Otis.

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Murder exposes rampant sexism in South African mines

A verdict of two life sentences handed down on 27 November 2014 nearly three years after miner Pinky Mosaine’s rape and murder underground at Anglo Platinum’s Khomanani mine is only a partial victory as women still suffer systemic violence, exploitation and abuse in South Africa’s mines.

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9th January 2015, 14:33

Hospital workers sacked for joining a union

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2015 has gotten off to a bad start with news that a major hospital in Istanbul has sacked 98 workers -- just because they joined a trade union.

Those workers have been walking on picket lines for a month, often in freezing temperatures, and have now called for an online campaign to put pressure on the hospital to reinstate them and to recognize their union.

Please take a moment to send your message of protest -- go here:

http://www.labourstart.org/go/maltepe

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10th January 2015, 16:58

Indian government concedes to coal strikers

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Indian government concedes to coal strikers

Over half a million coalminers in India have ended a planned five-day strike after two days as the government gave assurances not to privatize Coal India Ltd (CIL). IndustriALL Global Union coal mining affiliates led the massive strike which ended on 7 January.

Following a marathon six-hour-long meeting between the leaders of the five trade union centres that called the strike and the Coal India Chairman and senior officials, India's Coal and Power Minister, Piyush Goyal, told reporters:

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Rio Tinto far from ethical

As the debate on whether to reopen the controversial Panguna copper mine in Papua New Guinea intensifies, local communities must be aware that mining operator Rio Tinto’s bad behaviour is not a thing of the past.

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Cambodia – one year on violence continues

A year after five people were shot dead by police and 40 more were severely injured during wage protests in Phnom Penh on 3 January 2014, unionists in Cambodia are still being subjected to violence.

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Historic union victory in Turkish tyre industry

After a long struggle, IndustriALL Global Union Turkish affiliate Lastik-Is, representing tyre workers in the country, has persuaded two multinational tyre manufacturers to end out-sourcing of staff and put a total of 1,200 contracted workers on the payroll.

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High time for Holcim and Lafarge to respect workers’ rights

In 2014 the top two cement producers in the world, Holcim and Lafarge, announced their merger to be completed by mid-2015. The new company would employ some 130,000 workers and have a turnover of Euro 35 billion.

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30th January 2015, 20:11

Locked-out Australian food workers occupy their workplace - call for solidarity messages

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National Union of Workers members at the International Flavours and Fragrances facility in Dandenong (Victoria) have responded to a management lockout by occupying the lunchroom.

After months of fruitless bargaining for a new wage agreement which saw management demanding big concessions, union members voted to ban overtime and paperwork.

Workers arriving for the early morning shift on January 27 were informed of the lockout and several dozen union members rushed inside as the gates were closing.

They've installed themselves in the lunchroom while members and supporters demonstrate outside.

Please support their demand that the company immediately start bargaining in good faith. Click here to support the IUF campaign:

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30th January 2015, 20:15

[email protected] #126 - Turkey: Time for global solidarity towards metalworkers’ mass strike

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Turkey: Time for global solidarity with metalworkers’ mass strike

IndustriALL Global Union is mobilizing support for its affiliated union Birlesik Metal-Is in the sector-wide strike launched today, 29 January. The strike covers some 40 workplaces with 15,000 workers in Turkey’s metal industry.

Members of Birlesik Metal-Is voted to strike in rejection of an offered three-year collective agreement with the metal employers association MESS.

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Unions mobilize globally for workers’ rights at Holcim Lafarge

Last week, on 15 January Lafarge and Holcim workers and their supporters in 30 countries organized a series of actions as part of a global campaign launched by IndustriALL Global Union, Building and Wood Workers International (BWI) and European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW).

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Miners protest against destruction of coal mining in Ukraine

1,500 coal miners from IndustriALL Global Union affiliates across the Ukraine launched a protest action picketing the Cabinet of Ministers building today (28 January) in the capital Kiev.

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Indonesia: another fatality at the Grasberg mine

A mine worker was killed on 24 January at Rio Tinto's minority-owned mine in Papua, Indonesia. This brings the death toll at the mine over the last two years to a staggering 39.

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Citizens’ initiative to end zero-hours contracts in Finland

Zero-hours contracts should be outlawed, according to a citizens’ initiative aimed at the Finnish parliament. If the initiative succeeds in collecting 50,000 signatures, the Finnish Parliament will be forced to debate on the matter.

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2nd February 2015, 20:00

Worker occupation at food flavours TNC ends with strong union agreement

Worker occupation at food flavours TNC ends with strong union agreement
Members of Australia's National Union of Workers occupying the International Flavours and Fragrances (IFF) factory in Dandenong ended their 5-day occupation (http://iuf.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=f5aca1f18e&e=090f0b0646) by signing a new agreement which meets their bargaining demands and more.

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Faced with a united workforce backed by strong local community and national and international union support for their action, regional management flew to Australia to meet with the union. Workers ended the occupation and marched out of the factory on Friday night, January 30. On Saturday, negotiations began at the Fair Work Commission, and on Sunday workers voted to accept an agreement which brings a solid wage-increase over three years and retains all conditions which management had sought to erase.

The union has warmly thanked the more than 6,000 supporters who quickly responded to the IUF call for messages to the company.

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10th February 2015, 20:12

[LaborTech] Turkey , Dora Hotel fired workers for being trade union members.

Turkey , Dora Hotel fired workers for being trade union members.

Dore Hotel workers have been union members, using their rights provided by the Turkey constitution and universal law as well as ILO Conventions 87 & 98 as ratified by the Government of Turkey. They all members of Tourism Hotel Sports Laborers Union (Tüm Emek Sen)and have been fired because they used their rights.

They demanded to stop forcing worker in Dora Hotel. To resign
and not forced the workers to work 16-24 hours, and if they work overtimes should be paid.

We all demanded the management Istanbul Dora Hotel and the Government of Turkey to Respect the Workers Rights in Dora Hotel Istanbul Turkey.

We( IT workers Solidarity network) edit the video of the event was organized to draw attention to a boycott called by the workers of the hotel in San Francisco at 2010 for making Dora Hotel workers' voices heard.

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and we designed a web page to boycott DORA HOTEL!

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10th February 2015, 20:14

Shame on Sheraton - protest brutal rights abuses at upscale hotels

Brutal rights abuses at upscale hotels

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12th February 2015, 17:50

[email protected] #128 - Oil strike escalates in US

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Oil strike escalates in US

Faced with increased employer intransigence in the US the United Steelworkers (USW) oil industry strike, principally in support of demands for improved safety provisions has escalated as it entered its second week.

Workers at BP refineries in Ohio and Indiana have joined the walkout that began on 1 February at nine other refineries. From California to Kentucky this is the first nationwide strike in the industry for 35 years.

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Switzerland: workers fight to save jobs at Tamoil

In early January Tamoil Collombey announced the closure of its refinery in Valais, Switzerland. This decision will affect over 250 jobs, an outcome that, IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, UNIA is not willing to accept.

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Georgia: Mineworkers fight against severe union-busting

The management of RMG Copper and RMG Gold, mining enterprises located in Kazreti, Georgia, began a fight against the Trade Union of Metallurgy, Mining and Chemical Industry Workers of Georgia (TUMMCIWG), an affiliate of IndustriALL. As a result of the union busting, 120 workers have withdrawn from the union within the last few days.

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Bangladesh: union strength and brand pressure

Being a union leader in Bangladesh is often challenging. For representatives of IndustriALL affiliate BIGUF at the Global Garments factory in Dhaka, it has also meant persecution and for some even violent attacks.

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Ghana: IndustriALL members locked out at Crown Holdings

IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the Industrial & Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) protest against the lock out at Crown Holdings in Ghana.

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20th February 2015, 14:08

Benetton ‘Pagare’/Pay Up!

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Global Unions say to Benetton 'Pagare'/Pay Up!

Countdown to second Rana Plaza anniversary: Benetton pay up on Rana Plaza compensation!

Benetton is the only major international brand confirmed to have sourced clothing from Rana Plaza which has not paid a cent into the compensation fund for victims.

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Hands off our right to strike!

Workers around the globe staged a series of protests against employers’ attempts to challenge and potentially remove workers’ fundamental right to strike. This right is an integral part of the ILO Freedom of Association Convention 87.

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IndustriALL Global Union signs global framework agreement with Gamesa

Gamesa, the Spanish wind turbine manufacturer, has signed a Global Framework Agreement covering social, labour and environmental issues with IndustriALL Global Union and its Spanish affiliates, CCOO Industry, MCA-UGT and FITAG-UGT.

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IndustriALL calls for justice on the ninth anniversary of the industrial homicide at Pasta de Conchos

Nine years have gone by since tragedy struck at Pasta de Conchos. Sixty-five miners lost their lives after being trapped by an explosion at this Grupo Mexico mine. Sixty-three bodies were never recovered and are still in the mine.

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Suffering of Soma survivors continues

2,800 Turkish miners who lost their jobs at Soma have been denied severance pay by the mine’s operator. It follows the deaths of 301 miners at the mine last year.

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27th February 2015, 20:05

[email protected] #130

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Right to strike upheld at ILO

After months of pressure from trade unions, the right to strike has been recognized by the employers’ group at the International Labour Organization (ILO) following a crucial tripartite meeting in Geneva from 23 to 25 February.

A joint statement from the employers’ and workers’ groups at the meeting affirms that the right to industrial action is recognized by the ILO.

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Benetton agrees to pay Rana Plaza compensation

In reaction to news that Benetton will compensate victims of the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh, IndustriALL Global Union and UNI - the two global unions that have been campaigning on behalf of the victims - issued the following response.

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Rio Tinto seeks conflict with unions at global meeting

Rio Tinto cut short a meeting with global union leaders when the leaders rejected the company’s demand to end their campaign exposing Rio Tinto’s unsustainable practices.

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USA: Workers fight back against giant oil companies

Thousands of members of IndustriALL affiliate United Steelworkers (USW) National Oil Bargaining Program have gone on strike over health and safety issues in the industry.

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IG Metall secures 3.4 per cent industry pay rise

German metalworkers’ union, IG Metall, has succeeded in securing a 3.4 per cent pay rise in a deal with employers following warning strikes by more than 850,000 workers nationwide.

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3rd March 2015, 21:16

Rats, snakes, cockroaches ... and union-busting

Forestry workers in Gabon need our support today.

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A union in Gabon reports that 38 workers on strike at Rain Forest Management (RFM) were illegally dismissed on 17 February - and then forcibly removed by police from the camp where they were housed in deplorable sanitary conditions, among rats, cockroaches and snakes.

Building and Woodworkers International (BWI) has launched an online protest in support of these workers. Please support the workers' demands by sending off your message from here:

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4th March 2015, 22:35

UPDATED: Hundreds of workers could be sent home without pay as Scandinavian airline Norwegian threatens a lockout of workers if a strike affecting Swedish and Norwegian staff is not resolved by Wednesday morning.

If it ends up being a large strike where several hundreds of pilots take administrative action we will have to lock out cabin staff as well," Norwegian information officer Charlotte Holmbergh Jacobsson told Swedish newswire TT on Tuesday afternoon.

Delays and cancellations affected several flights to Stockholm on Monday and Tuesday after 70 of the airline’s pilots based in Norway went on strike on Saturday after more than three months of fruitless negotiations over pay and conditions.

The Swedish Pilot’s Union has pledged to mount a sympathy strike on March 4th if no agreement is reached between Norway-based pilots and the airline and has said that the strike action could end up involving as many as 700 pilots working for Norwegian across Scandinavia.

Pilots based in Finland and Spain could be brought in if the strike expands, Norwegian has said.

The strike comes amid growing speculation about the airline’s finances.

On Monday the company’s board held a six hour meeting, but claims that the firm had been declared bankrupt were rejected by the company’s CEO Bjørn Kise, who spoke to Swedish media after the talks.

Budget airline Norwegian is Scandinavia’s third-largest airline and has around 4,500 employees.

It’s parent company Norwegian Air Shuttle (NAS) is partly owned by subsidiaries in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Ireland and Singapore.

Around 150 Swedish pilots work for the firm, out of a total of 700.

Staff working for fellow Scandinavian airline SAS have returned to work after a separate four day strike which led to dozens of cancelled and delayed flights in and out of the Danish capital over the weekend, a key hub for travellers moving on to Malmö and other cities in southern Sweden.

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5th March 2015, 19:05

This International Women's Day, join the fight for Jimena Lopez

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For more than 100 years, we in the trade union movement have celebrated March 8th as International Working Women's Day.

This year, let's turn that celebration into a global act of solidarity.

Trade union leader Jimena Lopez was sacked from her cabin crew job after a successful organising drive at her workplace.

This week, let's send a message to her employers demanding her reinstatement.

The International Transport Workers Federation has called for thousands of messages to be sent to her employer.

Please take a moment to send your message now:
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3rd April 2015, 02:02

[email protected] #135 - Massive miners’ strike galvanizes Mauritania

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Massive miners’ strike galvanizes Mauritania

A two month-long miners’ strike in Mauritania’s iron ore industry is affecting the whole country say unions. Mauritania is Africa’s second largest exporter of iron ore and the mineral is vital to its struggling economy.

More than 3,000 union members, including miners in Zouerate in the north of the country and workers processing iron ore in Nouadhibou, downed tools on 28 January after the National Industrial and Mining Company (SNIM) refused to honour an agreed wage increase at the Zouerate mine.

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Building trade unions in Myanmar

Hear Maung Maung, president of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Myanmar (CTUM), talk about the challenges of building well functioning industrial relations in Myanmar.

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Brazilian union secures jobs at Toyota and Ford

The ABC Metalworkers’ Union has signed agreements with motor manufacturers Toyota and Ford guaranteeing workers’ jobs at two major plants in São Paolo state, Brazil.

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Germany: Chemical workers reach new agreement after tough negotiations

IndustriALL Global Union’s German affiliate IG BCE and the Chemical Employers’ Federation finally concluded a sector-wide chemical industry collective bargaining agreement after a long fourth final session in Stuttgart on 26-27 March.

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Kyrgyzstan: Chinese oil company refuses to recognize union

A Chinese-owned oil company operating in Kyrgyzstan has refused to recognize the locally elected union, affiliated to IndustriALL through the Mining and Metallurgy Trade Union of Kyrgyzstan (MMTUK).

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9th April 2015, 21:30

[email protected] #136 - Brazil: general strike on 15 April

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Brazil: general strike on 15 April

Trade unions in Brazil and their social movement partners are calling for a general strike on 15 April, after the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to adopt a bill favouring the liberalization of outsourcing.

The PL 4330 bill sets no limits to outsourcing in private and public sectors. Activities, including those linked to the core business of a company, could be outsourced.

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Vietnam – 90,000 workers strike over social security

A weeklong strike at a Taiwanese owned factory in Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam, producing for among others Nike and Adidas has come to an end after the government agreed to hold off suggested changes to the social insurance coverage.

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Mauritania - successful end to miners’ strike

Two days after a mass rally of unions, opposition parties and civic groups, Mauritania’s state-owned iron ore company has agreed to reopen talks with unions, bringing an end to a two-month-long strike late on 2 April.

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IndustriALL calls on Ecopetrol to reinstate dismissed USO leader

Edwin Palma, USO vice president, was dismissed by the Colombian oil company Ecopetrol on 27 March after he used social networks to publicise the salaries of company managers. IndustriALL Global Union considers the dismissal to have been unfair and illegal and is calling for Palma’s immediate reinstatement.

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Women show the way in Mexico

IndustriALL Global Union and its Mexican mining union affiliate Los Mineros organized a women's meeting on 7 April 2015 in Mexico City on the eve of the second Regional Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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11th April 2015, 19:04

REMINDER - Swaziland: New campaign launched following intensified attacks on human rights, trade unions

We sent you this important call for solidarity a couple of weeks ago -- I'm not sure you've seen it and it's very important that we intensify and grow this campaign. Thank you!

Africa's last absolute monarchy has intensified its attacks on trade unions and activists.

According to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), political parties are banned in Swaziland and the President of the People's United Democratic Movement, Mario Masuku, and the party's youth leader, Maxwell Dlamini, are subjected to arbitrary detention. Swazi human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko and journalist Bheki Makhubu received a two year sentence for writing articles critical of the lack of independence in the judiciary. On 19 March 2015, Thulani was moved to solitary confinement after the publication of a prison letter marking the one-year anniversary of his detention.

The ITUC is calling for an international campaign to put pressure on the Swazi government to respect human rights and to register trade unions such as TUCOSWA, which remains unable to legally function.

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17th April 2015, 23:34

[email protected] #137 - Rio Tinto shamed by unions

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Rio Tinto shamed by unions

World leader in workers’ rights abuses, Rio Tinto was targeted today in London by an angry coalition of campaigners calling for the company to clean up and act responsibly.

IndustriALL Global Union’s network of unions at Rio Tinto took their raft of grievances to the annual shareholders meeting today. The mining giant was shamed by its failures on union rights, worker safety, damage to the environment, and indigenous peoples and other communities.

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Unions bring workers’ demands to Holcim shareholder’s meeting

On 13 April a noisy crowd of shouting and whistling workers and union activists gathered in front of Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland, where Holcim held its Annual general meeting (AGM) of shareholders.

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Ghana must combat precarious work

Ghana needs good industrial jobs, not precarious work, IndustriALL Global Union general secretary Jyrki Raina tells the labour minister during his visit to Accra.

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Crown campaign continues in UK

As part of long-standing campaign tackling serious labour issues at Crown Packaging plants in various countries, Unite and the United Steelworkers (USW) unions organized protest actions against the Carnival cruise company in Southampton and London this week.

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The fight against outsourcing in Brazil intensifies

Brazilian workers held a one-day national strike on 15 April in many places across the country to protest at Bill 4330 on outsourcing, which they say threatens workers’ rights and freedom of association.

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21st April 2015, 04:11

BREAKING: Students at the University of Louisville Sit-In -- Cut Jansport Now!

Hi Chris--

Right now, Cards United Against Sweatshops is occupying President Ramsey’s office to demand the University of Louisville cut it’s licensing contract with Jansport. Their parent company, VF Corporation, is continuing to ignore the voices of workers who are demanding the apparel giant sign onto the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. Until VF makes a legally binding commitment to eliminate their deadly factory conditions, there is no place for them on our campus.

Call President Ramsey now at (502) 852-5417 to demand UofL take action for safe working conditions in Bangladesh today by cutting ties with Jansport.

Our local has been campaigning since August and have organized the Louisville community behind us. We’ve united with 29 campus organizations, dozens of faculty, and local unions, yet President Ramsey is continuing to ignore this support to instead prioritize profits over the lives of Bangladeshi workers producing apparel for Universities like Uof L.

But does this come as any surprise? President Ramsey is currently being scrutinized for his gross misuse of University funds - awarding himself and other UofL administrators millions of dollars in bonuses while tuition has doubled under his leadership. Ramsey is lining his pockets off the backs of students and lucrative deals with sweatshop brands like VF, and it’s time he’s held accountable.

Call UofL President James Ramsey now at (502) 852-5417 and tell him garment workers can’t wait another day for safe working conditions in Bangladesh.

President Ramsey has left us no choice: we’ll sit in his office until Jansport’s contract is cut or we’ll be forced out in handcuffs. Either way, we can’t sit by and wait for the next Rana Plaza collapse. It’s time to end deathtraps today, can we count on your support?

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26th April 2015, 19:18

On the 2 Year Anniversary of the Rana Plaza Collapse, we celebrate VICTORY but still need your help!

Dear Chris --

Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the infamous Rana Plaza building collapse, and USAS leaders around the country are honoring it with action. Right now, students are occupying offices across the country to demand safe workplaces for Bangladeshi garment workers.

But first, we have a lot to celebrate. After massive protests and even arrests, The Children’s Place is finally paying $2.5 Million (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YWcap9ZNETFSOzK6fB9%2BbtAVTWWmOIaF) into the Rana Plaza Donor Trust Fund to compensate victims of the collapse! This would not have been possible without your petition signatures, phone calls, and rallies. THANK YOU for everything you have done and continue to do to support Bangladeshi workers.

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At the University of Kentucky, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University of Louisville, and Virginia Tech, students have decided not another worker should die for fashion, which is why they’re refusing to move until their universities do the right thing. The students are asking that their schools cut ties with Jansport/VF Corporation unless the global apparel giant signs onto the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh.

And that’s just the beginning. Today in the wake of our huge victory at The Children’s Place, people around the world are taking action in their communities to pressure brands and ensure that all $30 million of the Rana Plaza Donor Trust Fund is filled.

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1st May 2015, 00:08

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Rana Plaza – a last push to close the compensation gap

24 April marked the second anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. After intense campaigning from global unions and other stakeholders, the Rana Plaza compensation fund lacks US$2,7 million to reach the US$30 million needed for the victims and their families.

On 24 April 2013, more than 1,100 workers were killed and thousands more were injured in an industrial homicide which opened the world’s eyes to the conditions in garment factories.

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Nepalese unions launch relief fund

Unions in Nepal are appealing for solidarity support following Saturday’s devastating earthquake in the country, which has claimed the lives of nearly 5,500 people and injured thousands more.

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IndustriALL tells Iranian government: Hands off May Day

The Iranian government is cracking down against workers organizing May Day celebrations. IndustriALL Global Union supports the brave Iranian unions operating in face of intimidation and arrests to mark the international workers’ day.

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Lafarge and Holcim workers mobilize for health and safety

Lafarge and Holcim, the world’s biggest players in the cement industry preparing to merge, have been struck by mobilizations and actions of workers and their unions across the globe.

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“Syngenta, stop union-busting and reinstate leader Imran Ali in Pakistan”, demands IndustriALL

In support of IndustriALL’s Pakistani affiliate, PCEM, whose president Imran Ali was sacked by Syngenta for organizing, the global union, its Swiss affiliate Unia and civil society allies today demonstrated at the agrochemicals multinational’s AGM in Basel.

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3rd May 2015, 00:23

Unions in Nepal set up relief fund - need our help

Nepalese unions launch relief fund

30 Apr 2015

Unions in Nepal are appealing for solidarity support following Saturday’s devastating earthquake in the country, which has claimed the lives of nearly 5,500 people and injured thousands more.

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The General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT) has set up a relief fund to help people on the ground. It is the worst earthquake to hit the country for 80 years.

GEFONT has spent the week mobilizing people to rescue victims from the rubble. It will use aid to focus on immediate relief for the countless men, women and children who have lost their homes by providing temporary shelter, clothing and food.

GEFONT will then focus on reconstruction and resettlement, employing resources nationally and internationally to support its members, working people as well as the general population.

IndustriALL, which has nine affiliates in Nepal, joins the ITUC’scall (http://mailings.actionnetwork.org/wf/click?upn=Q5IlTUqXwYz2m0KC3KGtdwOKMtJWBJ2FyIrWk9gk Qxhx-2BsWoCa-2BSNDQ-2FzcQVVjfhwf0qCjjsRIgm06VLGW6t9spGiNLnCMpTMuP3k0Cg lN7OA0G9GZJCfPzBA1MSXGpBfwvLPI2mPdBuHIEJoNNJDDWb92 l8Dh1acAS0ZSIuMQEbxI-2BkkEBkrViyD0jxHPP59sDJKrRnm8aJp2G3TqWdTva8dOHbI5Y PZGqtC-2Bc7f0e-2FJ2OcbYUG-2FIRzPI74FasbfEu78-2BneEBK2HJx7XPB1AHAlv9Gl8-2FvzcYr8mK2HBENj21UdUXX7oc9F9-2FHAcVwNZO5rglGMHjZcGr-2Fbc16V7w-3D-3D_-2BvwfuvO6dPyF8TPREnIo-2FX0zWo-2BX0OhBd1ZmZBTnKbD9zbi8Bis1QfjQN3M8GyqWfEkGXRFC6al iqHge-2FHFi8W8tNMyBPJQeXjPhWOJfnlIfJmHpcBvM0Ukb6bQCH2VHS eEeh6AgRk-2F-2BxwH7ERUXYLTeh-2BWlY2A0edant8WkPwkB7pDmD8cI19AgNz6964-2BsMhP0PvV8ZpGpdnvsCgPTTFwUBjcsoqpuHtBwS6-2FoV12FuTRq6-2FuREdLDmziZMkbj7TxGGdwhjvBf-2BdcrYwLIa21A3ZGHBOMl3x0gxW5tYQ2Tf5ocE1IfB4YgAZmPD WK8xix57GCAKUCj9UdCISh-2FVmBbI5KBHLEpMX85jmMn9PY-3D)for a huge international aid effort. General secretary Jyrki Raina said:

“Our hearts go out to the families of victims and the thousands of people who have lost their loved ones and now struggle for survival without food and shelter. We applaud unions’ drive to help the people of Nepal and the global solidarity already shown by many trade union organizations abroad.”

Unions in Nepal have cancelled May Day festivities and will be holding a candle-lit vigil for the thousands of people who have perished in the devastating earthquake that hit the mountainous country on 25 April.

GEFONT president Bishnu Rimal said:

"This year Nepali unions will not celebrate May Day, we will mourn in the name of dead beloved ones, wish for the speedy recovery of injured people and express our solidarity with the families of victims. We will also pay tribute to those who were killed by the Everest avalanche.”

GEFONT’s finance secretary Gunaram Acharya is in a serious condition having sustained serious injuries after being caught in a landslide.

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9th May 2015, 14:39

Protest arrests of Iranian trade union activists

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From Tehran to Budapest, workers are denied their rights to join free and independent trade unions. Please take a moment to support them.

In Iran, a wave of arrests.

Labour activists in Iran have once again found themselves the target of persecution for exercising their rights as trade unionists. On 29 April 2015, Davood Razavi and Ebrahim Madadi of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company were reportedly arrested and incarcerated in Evin prison where political prisoners are detained. Earlier, Mahmoud Salehi and Osman Ismaili, of the Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers' Organizations were also arrested. The reasons for the arrests are not known. There have also been reports of other incidents against labour activists. If we can flood the inboxes of the Iranian leaders with messages of protest, we can help get our brothers released.

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In Hungary, union busting at Hödlmayr.

The Austrian-founded multinational transportation company Hödlmayr International AG is making the situation of trade union officials at its Hungarian subsidiary difficult while it intimidates employees who want to join the union. The Trade Union of Workers of Multinational Companies (TUWMC) created its local organisation in 2013 with a membership rate of 50-60%. At the members’ initiative, TUWMC started to negotiate a collective agreement with the company. The negotiations were progressing well for two or three months, then were interrupted due to the employer’s behaviour. From that time, Hödlmayr hampered the work of several trade union officials. Most recently they sacked the leader of the local organisation, László Benkó, after he made a statement during a trial concerning the wage system.

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19th May 2015, 01:01

[LaborTech] Thousands of Renault Metal Workers Strike in Turkey

Thousands of metal workers stop production at the Renault factory to demand better wages and a union that represents the needs of the workers. Workers from various factories have joined in the strike.

Around 5,000 workers at Oyak Renault’s factory in Bursa halted production activities during their midnight shift on May 14 and have refused to return to work since. Thousands of metal workers from other factories, including Tofaş, a joint venture of Turkey’s top industrial conglomerate Koç Holding, Coşkunöz and FIAT have gone on strike to support Renault workers on late Friday.

The Renault factory in Bursa normally produces nearly 400 cars each shift.

Bursa is the 4th biggest city of Turkey and the hearth of the automobile industry of Turkey. Metal workers’ struggle for better conditions goes back to 2012, when thousands of workers of the German Bosch factory resigned from their union Türk Metal (a member of Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions, TÜRK-İŞ) claiming that the union fails to fight for the workers’ rights in negotiations with the employers. This followed several protests and eventually led to organizing an “inner council” among workers from various factories in order to take autonomous action to claim their rights.

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The Renault workers, who complained about their low wages, demanded that a factory executive show up and deliver a statement, as their grievances went ignored for a month. The workers shouted slogans against the management and Metal Workers Trade Union of Turkey (Türk Metal), from which they have resigned.

A labor agreement was signed for the 2014-2017 period between Türk Metal and the employer’s union, Turkey’s Metal Industrialists Union (MESS), eight months ago. Nonetheless, the Oyak Renault workers asked for improvement in their conditions, adding that conditions for the workers of Bosch’s brake system factory, where Türk Metal is also in charge were given a 60% pay increase. The labor agreement at the Bosch factory was renewed in December 2015.

The demands of workers are as follows:

– Our agreement should be re-negotiated and signed based off the Bosch agreement

– Workers alone must be able to choose their own union representative by democratic process

– We want assurance that in case we resign from the Turk Metal union that we won’t be fired from our factories

– Turk Metal should leave factories immediately

Today is the fifth full day and nights that workers have remained outside of the factories

‪Other 3 metal factory Tofaş Coşkunöz and Mako‬'s workers also started the Strike

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26th May 2015, 01:06

[LaborTech] Support Striking Autoworkers in Turkey! #NYC

Tens of thousands of workers in Turkey's auto and auto parts industries are on strike for higher-wages and against their forced membership in a pro-management, pro-regime union, Türk Metal.

The strike started on May 15th and has since spread from the sector's hub in Bursa to other cities in Kocaeli and now the capital, Ankara. Production has been shut down by workers in domestic and foreign-owned plants which include Renault, Ford, as well as Mako, TOFAŞ, Türk Traktör among others.

MESS, the metal manufacturers' association, has already reported losses of $1.5 billion, which explains their insistence that workers abandon the strike without even a guarantee of talks much less any concrete gains.

The employers' fury heightens fears of a government attack on strikers, a fear reinforced by recent "requests" by the police that workers report to the local prosecutors' offices.

The company/state union Türk Metal, formed under the junta which came to power in the 1980 CIA-led coup, has used thugs to prevent the rank and file from speaking out.

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8th June 2015, 21:05

An appeal for help from the world's largest working class

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I sent you this message last week, but I'm not sure you saw it -- and because of its importance, I'm sending it again. This campaign has gotten 8,545 supporters in the last seven days, but we need many more if we are to help our fellow workers in China.

Things have never been easy for the world's largest working class, and now they're getting harder.

Repression of labour rights defenders in China has been growing for more than a year.

The Chinese government has been cracking down on labour non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including the following measures:

Forced eviction from their offices

Systematic use of violence against workers' representatives

At least seven labour activists still in prison, some serving life sentences

And a new law which will make it even harder for these NGOs to operate

The Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, the only independent trade union in the country, has launched a major global campaign to demand that the Chinese government respect workers' rights and end police violence.

Please take a moment to send off your message of protest:

http://www.labourstart.org/go/righttoorganize

And please spread the word in your union.

Thank you!

Eric Lee

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15th June 2015, 03:03

Iraq Unions Struggle on Many Fronts

IRAQI UNIONS STILL NEED OUR SOLIDARITY

You will have to search very hard to find any mention of the Iraqi labor movement or worker struggles in the U.S. media (including most progressive media). But the class struggle is alive and well in Iraq!

Iraqi unions are involved in a multi-front war of their own.

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First, they must battle their government, which continues to enforce a union-hostile Saddam-era labor law that forbids public sector and public enterprise workers from organizing a union or negotiating over the terms of their employment.

Even though their new constitution recognizes the right to organize, more than a dozen years after their "liberation", Iraq unions are still fighting to get Parliament to enact a new labor law that fully respects the right of all workers to organize and bargain in the unions of their choice.

Second, they are fighting to defend Iraq's natural resources and public assets from exploitation by multinational corporations that flocked to Iraq on the heels of the U.S. military to pillage and plunder in Iraq's new U.S.-imposed "open for business" economy.

Third, they are engaged in daily struggles with their employers to protect their health and safety, obtain timely payment of their wages, respect their rights and resolve their grievances.

Fourth, they must work to avoid being sucked into the sectarian conflict between Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds. Iraqi unions remain committed to a non-sectarian democratic pluralist labor movement and civil society, with respect for the rights of all, in a unified sovereign country.

Fifth, they now are also forced to confront and defend themselves from foreign terrorists like the so-called Islamic State, al Qaeda and other salafist extremists. Their workplaces have come under attack. Their homes and families are threatened. Their leaders have been kidnapped and murdered.

Iraqi unions need our help and solidarity.

Solidarity with the Iraqi labor movement has been a hallmark of USLAW's work since its founding in 2003. We set up the Iraq Labor Solidarity Fund to provide concrete aid to Iraqi unions and to underwrite the cost of sending delegations to and bringing delegations from Iraq.

USLAW sent its first delegation to Iraq in 2003 just months after the invasion to establish contact with Iraqi unions that were forming and organizing in the wake of the downfall of Saddam Hussein. Other delegations followed in 2004, 2009 and 2012. USLAW brought Iraqi union leaders to the US in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2013. [Learn more by clicking Our Work->International Solidarity->Iraq Labor Solidarity on the USLAW website.]

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UNIONS SUSTAIN THEIR STRUGGLE!

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Iraq’s Labor Unions
In Iraq, Public-Sector Workers Stand Up for their Rights
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More than 10 years of change in Iraq and still the laws of the Saddam dictatorship hang on the necks of workers and their union organizations
Statement of International Anti-Occupation Network
Why the war in Iraq was fought for Big Oil
RT: Origins of ISIS – Special Coverage
Q&A on Nonmilitary Options against the Self-Proclaimed Islamic State
USLAW May Day 2015 Message to Iraqi Unions

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15th June 2015, 03:08

Justice for Kentex workers

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Dear Chris,

While we're celebrating our collective victory of achieving $30 million in compensation for the victims of the Rana Plaza building collapse, we're also supporting a new campaign to secure fair compensation for the families of the workers killed in the Kentex factory fire.

On May 13, Kentex Manufacturing Inc., a factory in the Philippines which made flip-flops, went up in flames as a result of glaring violations of occupational health and safety standards.

Soon after the fire, the Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Development, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights, Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, and Kilusang Mayo Uno formed a fact-finding team to investigate the cause of the fire and the extensive death toll. The team found that a rubber emulsifier chemical was mishandled, improperly labeled, and workers were not aware that it was highly flammable. The factory lacked proper fire alarms and fire drills had not been conducted as legally-mandated. The windows were covered with steel grills and chicken wire, and the building lacked fire exits.

The Kentex fire is the deadliest factory fire in Philippines' history. Seventy-two bodies were uncovered from the factory, and another 20 workers are still missing. Filipino human rights groups and labor organizations are calling for:

Holding accountable the government agencies that gave the company a compliance certification;
Imposition of criminal and administrative penalties on the factory owner;
Fair compensation for the families of the victims, proper benefits for the survivors who lost their jobs, and long-term support for orphaned children; and
The immediate passage of an occupational health and safety law.
Please support the newly formed Justice for Kentex Workers Alliance today on the Global Day of Action:

1) Sign the petition to the President of the Philippines. (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tZlVg%2FiqB2dWllcYfY2c7n5fuaJTFYhA)

2) Write "Justice!" on a flip-flop or write "Justice for Kentex workers!" or a similar message on a sign. Take a photo of yourself holding the flip-flop or sign and share it on the campaign's facebook page (http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jx5MZYllIu3kMfq0Ku4KXn5fuaJTFYhA) and on twitter using the hashtag #JusticeforKentexWorkers.

Thanks in advance for taking action!

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16th June 2015, 02:54

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Rana Plaza victims’ compensation fund reaches US$30 million target

IndustriALL Global Union and UNI Global Union, two signatories to the Bangladesh Accord, welcome the news that the Rana Plaza Compensation Fund has finally reached its target.

IndustriALL Global Union General Secretary Jyrki Raina welcomed the announcement which finally makes full compensation possible for the victims of the Rana Plaza tragedy:"This compensation scheme is groundbreaking for industrial accidents in the garment supply chain, but the lack of responsibility by the brands towards the workers who make their clothes has been only too apparent.

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On 8 June the Joint Trade Union Coordination Centre of Nepal (JTUCC) organized a special Nepal Forum in support of Nepalese unions during the International Labour Conference in Geneva.

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IndustriALL’s UK steel affiliates to strike against pension cuts

17,000 Tata Steel workers in the UK will halt the country’s steel industry on 22 June in a strike rejecting proposed pension cuts.

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Alarm grows over trade union law in Cambodia

The Cambodian government is in the process of drafting a new labour law but has not consulted any social partners since October last year. Union busting and violence against workers have increased and the new law threatens to curtail the rights of some of the ILO conventions the country has ratified.

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Hungarian turbine mechanics prepare to strike for fair pay

Criticizing Granite management for breaking their word and continuing to treat Hungarian workers worse than colleagues elsewhere in the world, the members of VDSZ are preparing strike action at this General Electric subsidiary.

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29th June 2015, 18:50

Stop union busting - support the online campaign

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The right join a trade union of your own choosing is a basic human right.

It is enshrined in international law, in the eight core conventions adopted by the International Labour Organization.

The World Bank recognizes this, and through the International Finance Corporation (IFC), provides financial support to private sector companies which have agreed to recognize this right. The loans and support those companies receive is dependent upon their acceptance of workers' rights, including the right of workers to choose their own unions.

So why is the IFC financially supporting a company like SFI in Malaysia, which refuses to allow workers to join the union they want?

SFI is defying an order of the Malaysian Ministry of Human Resources and is in clear breach of the ILO conventions with its refusal to recognise the Sabah Timber Industry Employees Union (STIEU).

Instead, the company is insisting it will only recognize an in-house union it controls.

In India, the same company does recognize unions. But not in Malaysia.

We've been asked by the local union through its global union federation, Building and Wood Workers' International, to mobilize thousands of union members around the world to send messages of protest to the company.

Please take a moment to send your message today:

http://www.labourstart.org/go/sfi

And then, please share this with your friends, family and fellow union members.

Together, we can persuade SFI to do the right thing, and support our brothers and sisters in the forests of Malaysia.

Thank you!

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3rd July 2015, 02:03

Defend trade union rights for Myanmar hotel workers!

No room for trade union rights at upscale Myanmar hotel

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Tourism is booming in Myanmar, but workers are still denied their basic rights after decades of dictatorship. In 2013 workers at the upscale Bagan Hotel River View formed a union n response to longstanding grievances and legally registered the union in June that year. Workers had gone years without a pay raise and distribution of the important service charges was not enforced. On March 7 this year, management summoned the union executive to a closed meeting in a private hotel room guarded by hotel security and instructed them to disband the union and to sign resignation letters. Five union leaders who refused were immediately terminated.

With the support of the IUF, the union is fighting for their immediate reinstatement. You can support this important struggle for trade union rights - CLICK HERE TO SEND A MESSAGE (http://iuf.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=23e96f6a4d&e=090f0b0646) to the owners and management of the Bagan Hotel River View, telling them to immediately reinstate the 5 dismissed trade union leaders to their jobs, respect union rights and negotiate with the union in good faith.

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7th July 2015, 02:49

Your protests needed right now - Iran arrests leader of teachers' union

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Esmail Abdi, a leader of the Iranian Teachers' Trade Association, was arrested on 27 June following his attempt to obtain a visa to attend the 7th Education International World Congress in Ottawa, Canada in late July.

After his passport was confiscated at the border, he was ordered to return to Tehran to meet with prosecutors. However, upon reporting to the prosecutors' office he was arrested while more than 70 teachers waited outside in support.

Protest now: http://www.labourstart.org/go/esmail

Abdi's arrest comes after nationwide rallies were held earlier this year to protest wages that leave the majority of teachers below the poverty line.

The Education International is deeply concerned about the repression facing representatives of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Associations and has asked us to launch this very urgent campaign.

It will only take you a minute -- please send your message off now:

http://www.labourstart.org/go/esmail

Please share this with your friends, family and fellow union members -- and with any teachers you know.

Thank you!

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16th July 2015, 21:07

Support SABMiller Panama workers on strike for bargaining rights

Support SABMiller Panama workers on strike for bargaining rights

Workers at Cervecería Nacional, Panama's beer and soft-drink subsidiary of global brewing giant SABMiller, have been on indefinite strike since July 10 in a conflict over basic trade union rights. CLICK HERE TO SEND A SUPPORT MESSAGE TO SABMILLER! (http://iuf.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=895e817087&e=090f0b0646)

The two unions which together represent over 80% of the workforce, SITRAFCOREBGASCELIS and STICP, submitted joint proposals for a new collective bargaining agreement at the Ministry of Labour on June 1. Negotiations immediately deadlocked over the company's insistence on negotiating with only one of the unions, who insist on their right to be jointly represented in the negotiations.

In the runup to the July 10 strike deadline, management pressured workers to renounce their collective bargaining rights and demands and barred active union leaders from access to workplaces. Now, the company is escalating the pressure by withholding from workers their wages for days worked in July prior to the strike.

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You can support their fight - CLICK HERE (http://iuf.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=6f0de047fe&e=090f0b0646) to send a message to management of Cervecería Nacional - SABMiller telling the company to immediately begin bargaining with the two unions representing the workers.

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16th July 2015, 21:10

Trade union rights at Prosegur: Please share our video

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The fight for trade union rights at Prosegur continues in South America.

We refuse to accept a working environment in which trade unionists are targets for brutal acts of violence, in which workers can be fired simply because they are unionised, or in which workers are offered bribes to leave their union.

Prosegur workers in Chile, Peru and Colombia believe it’s time to show the Spanish government and business community what damage the company’s actions are doing to Brand Spain. Please watch and share our new video and help us send a message that workers’ rights abuses that would not be accepted in Spain will not be accepted anywhere else.

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22nd July 2015, 20:09

Union-busting at a factory making €1,000 luxury leather bags

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Mulberry is a British company that produces luxury goods like leather bags. It proudly proclaims its commitment to "corporate social responsibility".

On its website you can read that Mulberry insists that its "suppliers should respect the rights of employees to join or form an association of their choosing (such as workers council, union, or workers association)".

Sounds great, doesn't it?

Except that it's not true.

One of Mulberry's key suppliers, SF Leather in Turkey, is now engaged in a campaign of relentless union-busting.

Over the last few weeks, the company has sacked 14 union supporters, offering their jobs back on the condition that they cancel their union membership.

It has demanded that a local court impound a union banner and block the union distributing material online of their action.

And it has even filed a claim for damages against the union.

So much for "corporate social responsiblity".

The union (Deriteks) and their global union federation (IndustriALL) are calling for a massive online campaign to send a clear message to Mulberry and SF Leather: no to union-busting!

Please take a moment to send off your message today:

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24th July 2015, 18:34

SABMiller responds to support for striking workers by blocking emails

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Last week we asked you to show support for the unions on strike for bargaining rights at global brewery giant SABMillers' subsidiary in Panama, Cervecería Nacional. Thousands of you quickly responded, and your support has been conveyed to the workers.

SABMiller management in Panama responded to this show of solidarity by blocking these messages on July 18. But the strike continues, and you can still show your support - your messages to the company are now being collected by the IUF for presentation to SABMiller as a petition. Your voice will be heard! If you have not yet been able to send a message, please take a moment to do - CLICK HERE (http://iuf.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=dc020fa67b&e=090f0b0646) to sign the petition to SABMiller!

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2nd August 2015, 18:17

new rights abuses at Bagan Hotel River View in Myanmar

Management at Bagan Hotel River View in Myanmar responds to international campaign with new rights abuses

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In response to the international campaign launched by the IUF to defend basic trade union rights at the upscale Bagan Hotel River View in Myanmar (Burma), management is now screening job applicants to identify potential union supporters. Applicants are asked if they know anyone who is a union member and are warned that if they join the union they will fail their probation. Additionally, management attempted to force out older workers active in the union by ordering workers over 60 to resign within 24 hours.

Earlier this year, management attempted to crush the legally registered trade union by compelling the elected officers to sign resignation letters in a closed meeting guarded by hotel security. Five leaders who refused were instantly terminated. The local authorities have twice issued reinstatement orders, but management has only agreed to formally reinstate them while forbidding them access to their jobs and their members at the hotel. The hotel plans to appeal the reinstatement orders, and the absurd legal system gives them up to two years to appeal!

You can support this important struggle for basic trade union rights for hotel workers in Myanmar - CLICK HERE to send a message to the hotel's owners and management now, demanding they immediately reinstate the trade union leaders to their jobs, cease screening new applicants for pro-union sympathies and fully respect trade union rights.

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19th August 2015, 23:23

An historic victory for Iraqi workers but their struggle will continue

USLAW is pleased to be able to bring you some good news from Iraq for a change. We are proud to have been an important ally for the Iraqi labor movement throughout USLAW's dozen years of activity. At numerous critical junctures, USLAW was able to step in to provide solidarity to Iraqi unions and workers. That was only possible because you and USLAW's affiliates saw the importance of having an independent labor voice on foreign policy in the American labor movement. Your donations and affiliation fees make this work possible. The Iraqi labor movement counts on USLAW and solidarity from the American labor movement. USLAW counts on you. Please make a donation to enable USLAW to continue being there for our Iraqi comrades in struggle.

AN HISTORIC DAY FOR

IRAQI WORKERS!

But their struggle will continue

U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) sends its greetings and congratulations to the workers and labor movement of Iraq on the achievement of this important victory for all workers. We remain committed to support you as you now struggle to also win a trade union law that will protect the right of all Iraqi workers to organize and bargain in the union of their choice without interference by the government or employers.

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Today (8/17/15) the Iraqi Parliament approved the new Iraqi Labor Law, accepting most amendments proposed by Iraqi unions. Congratulations to all trade unionists who fought for decades for this day! The labor law covers basic working conditions like US wage and hours and safety laws. It does not cover the right to organize and bargain. That would be covered by the Trade Union law which has yet to be adopted. The struggle for that law continues.

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Despite the armed conflict taking place in Iraq, Iraqi unions continue to press the government for the unfettered right to organize and bargain without interference by the government or employers. They also are leading almost daily demonstrations throughout Iraq over the lack of basic services - especially reliable electricity.

Demonstrations have sometimes turned confrontational, leading in some instances to the death and injury of protesting workers.

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31st August 2015, 06:22

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31st August 2015, 06:24

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Maciek Konopka has been sacked from his job at Deepwater Container Terminal (DCT) in Gdansk because he's a committed and active trade union leader.

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30th October 2015, 01:41

[LaborTech] Apple's Supply-Chain Workers May Be Risking Cancer to Build Your iPhone

Apple's Supply-Chain Workers May Be Risking Cancer to Build Your iPhone
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If you thought you'd heard it all about labor violations in Apple's supply chain, think again. A new investigative report from Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), a Hong Kong-based nongovernmental organization that has revealed a litany of labor abuses throughout the tech, toy and apparel sectors in China, details inhumane, illegal and dangerous work conditions at Lens Technology, Apple's main supplier of glass for its iPhone and Apple Watch products. Among the worst offenses is the use of benzene, a known carcinogen that is linked to high rates of adult leukemia among those exposed to it, in improperly ventilated areas.

The report, released in late September, details the results of six months of undercover research at two Lens Technology facilities in Langli and Liyuang, Hunan Province, and includes findings from more than 60 off-site interviews with workers across the company's three main factories, including one in Shenzhen.

Benzene is used in solvents and paints in the printing departments of the Lens Technology factories, where ventilation is inadequate.

Members of SACOM conducted undercover research from January through June 2015, which included three months of peak production volume. Labor violations on various fronts were widespread. As has been documented at numerous other Apple suppliers across China, all sites were found to be in violation of China's law that limits monthly overtime hours. According to Article 41 of Chinese labor law, monthly overtime cannot exceed 36 hours, yet undercover research and interviews with workers revealed that most regularly report as much as 60 overtime hours per month. At the Shenzhen facility, one worker reported 110 hours of monthly overtime. Technically speaking, this is a violation of Apple's Supplier Code of Conduct too, which states that overtime should not exceed 60 hours per month. However, Apple lets itself and its suppliers off the hook by adding the caveat that exceptions can be made during unusual circumstances.

Additionally, a worker referred to as "Zhang" (a pseudonym) reported that laborers working on the Apple Watch line during peak season (November through March) had only one day off for every two weeks. Others reported that in order to use that rest day they had to apply in advance, and that if they did use it, they would lose wages for that day. It is tactics such as these, as well as requiring as much as three hours of overtime per day, that result in such illegally excessive monthly overtime hours.

SACOM also found that Lens Technology regularly withholds wages for excessive amounts of time, in violation of local labor laws. By holding wages for anywhere from 15 to 30 days into the following month, the company manipulates workers into staying in their positions rather than leaving the undesirable job. Many workers reported that this system makes quitting difficult because the company has created a lengthy quitting procedure that most do not want to endure. If they leave before the procedure is complete, they lose wages withheld from the previous month.

Research revealed that Lens Technology also underreports workers' monthly wages, so that they receive less than they should in social security and insurance, which leaves them potentially vulnerable in the future.

Being forced to work such excessive overtime hours takes a serious toll on workers' physical and mental well-being. Their feet swell and knees ache from standing through 10-hour shifts without bathroom breaks, and like many others in China's electronics sector, workers at Lens Technology characterize their lives at the factories as "boring" and "lonely," according to worker testimonies collected during the investigation. They work far too much to enjoy the leisure and recreational facilities provided to them, and their ever-changing work schedules mean that they cannot form friendships with their colleagues.

But the most troubling findings of SACOM's latest investigation pertain to the use of a known carcinogen, benzene. Though Apple banned the use of the chemical in its final assembly facilities (like Foxconn and Pegatron) in August 2014, this report raises the concern that it remains in use throughout deeper layers of the tech giant's supply chain.

Chinese workers may be exposed to at least three times the amount of benzene legally allowed in US workplaces.
Workers report that benzene is used in solvents and paints in the printing departments of the Lens Technology factories, where ventilation is inadequate because windows are sealed. Those working in these departments report experiencing dizziness on the shop floor, and women workers report abnormal menstruation. During peak season workers may be in this setting for as much as 10 hours per day, and some have worked in the shop for more than five years, though three is supposed to be the maximum.

As Green America, the activist organization, pointed out in 2014 as part of its campaign to get Apple to ban the use of benzene and other toxic chemicals, the length of the workday at factories such as these - coupled with the fact that China's legal limit for benzene concentration in a workplace is higher than that in the United States - means that Chinese workers may be exposed to at least three times the amount of benzene legally allowed in US workplaces. And that is based on the assumption that factories located in China are following the law.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that exposure to benzene occurs primarily through inhalation, and that "acute occupational exposure" can cause headache, dizziness and confusion, among other side effects. It also causes irritation to eyes and skin.

More disturbingly, numerous studies, cited by the WHO and American Cancer Society, have shown that exposure to benzene causes cancer in humans. In particular, it is known to cause leukemia, and in fact higher than normal rates of leukemia have been documented among those working in the Chinese and South Korean electronics industries. According to the WHO, exposure to the chemical also increases the risk that one will die of leukemia if one contracts the disease.

Workers in other departments at Lens Technology report injuries related to exposure to other chemicals. As reported by SACOM, those working in the glass-shaping department suffer from a lack of ventilation, and many speak with voices that have grown hoarse due to inhalation of toxic chemicals. Some see blood in their phlegm, despite wearing multiple safety masks while working. Workers also suffer from cracked skin, blisters on their hands and eroding fingernails as a result of inadequate protection from chemical exposure.

Commenting on the problems at the Lens Technology factories, Kwan Liang, project officer at SACOM, told Truthout, "In my opinion, all of those labor rights violations we found in the field are impacts of the absence of a representative trade union for workers. In Lens Technology, workers are not represented by their own trade union, making them unable to negotiate with the enterprise to improve their working conditions from root causes."

Liang emphasized that large multinational corporations like Apple have a responsibility to improve working conditions at their suppliers, and that consumers have a responsibility to pressure them to do so.

A coalition of international activists has taken action to force the electronics industry to adopt more stringent standards for the use of toxic chemicals at sites of production. Truthout reported in March that a challenge was presented to the electronics industry by Pauline Overeem, international coordinator of Good Electronics. The challenge calls on leading global brands to eliminate production hazards and protect workers' basic human rights. Over 400 individuals and 200 organizations from more than 40 countries have endorsed the challenge, demanding that the industry provide more transparency, eliminate hazardous chemicals, implement stronger protections for workers, include workers in management decisions, protect communities and the environment from harmful exposure, and provide compensation and remediation when harm is done.

Earlier in October, some progress was made at the fourth International Conference on Chemicals Management, which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from September 28 to October 2. Ted Smith, coordinator for International Campaign for Responsible Technology, who was present as an advocate at the conference, reported that some meaningful progress was made when the group adopted a resolution that includes provisions for awareness, education and advocacy for those working in the electronics supply chain, and for more responsible design and manufacture in general.

However, Smith stated that provisions for creating a cancer and birth defects registry linked to occupation and for biomonitoring programs at sites of manufacture were rejected by representatives from the United States, European Union, Japan and the electronics industry. Meanwhile, those that were adopted are not legally binding, so for the time being, regulation of this toxic industry remains dangerously lax.

Commenting on this latest report, Smith told Truthout, "SACOM's new report on Lens Technology raises serious concerns about worker exposure to dangerous solvents used in their production factories. It is particularly alarming that the workers report that they are using and are being exposed to benzene, the most hazardous of all solvents."

He added, "Last year, Apple banned the use of benzene at all of its first-tier assembly factories, but since Lens Technology is a 'component manufacturer' rather than a 'final assembly' factory, Apple's ban does not seem to apply to them. Clearly, this new report demonstrates the need for Apple to apply its ban of benzene to Lens as well as all of its contractors, not just the final assembly plants. Apple should also insist that Lens and its other contractors replace all of their hazardous chemicals with safe substitutes and allow independent inspections to evaluate the working conditions."

Recognizing the power that a major global corporation like Apple holds, Smith said, "This new report provides further dramatic evidence that Apple needs to fulfill its responsibility as the world's leading technology company and assure a safe workplace at Lens and its many other contractors."

Apple did not respond to a request for comment on this story.
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30th October 2015, 01:47

REMINDER: Sacked for speaking out - Sergey needs our solidarity today

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13th November 2015, 19:20

PepsiCo: The fight goes on!

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25th November 2015, 00:01

Uzbekistan: rights defenders persecuted for documenting forced labour in cotton

Uzbekistan: rights defenders persecuted for documenting massive forced labour in cotton

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The government of Uzbekistan continues its brutal crackdown on human rights defenders documenting the massive use of forced labour in the cotton harvest. “For years”, writes Human Rights Watch, “the government has relied on the forced labor of over a million people each year – including children, teachers, medical workers, college and university students, and public employees – to pick cotton. It uses coercion, including intimidation and threats of loss of job, social welfare benefits, utilities, expulsion, and even prosecution to force people into the fields.” And for years the government has persecuted rights defenders documenting this coercion. The most recent cases are the arrest and detention of Elena Urlaeva and Dmitry Tikhonov on September 19 and 21, respectively. Among the materials police confiscated from Ms Urlaeva were a fact sheet on ILO Conventions.

The World Bank, which is financing the ‘modernization’ of Uzbek agriculture, is supposed to be monitoring the presence of forced labour and has pledged to withdraw over USD 450 million in funding for agriculture if forced labour is confirmed in project areas.

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26th November 2015, 03:41

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Thousands of workers to hold strikes across Greater Jakarta

Indra Budiari, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Jakarta | Tue, November 24 2015, 3:32 PM

Hundreds of thousands of industrial workers across Greater Jakarta are set to hold mass strikes on Tuesday as part of a three-day national strike protesting Government Regulation No. 78/2015 on wages.

Subianto from the All-Indonesia Workers Union Confederation (KSPSI) said Monday that dozens of workers’ unions across the country had agreed to fight against the regulation, which they said was an indication of the government’s indifference toward workers.

“We are going all out in the next three-day strike. We will empty the factories including those located in Greater Jakarta,” Subianto told reporters during a press conference at the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) office in Menteng, Central Jakarta.

Industrial areas in Greater Jakarta — including Jababeka Industrial Zone in Bekasi, West Java, and the Kawasan Berikat Nusantara (KBN) industrial bonded zone in North Jakarta — have been named by workers as gathering points to express their rejection of the newly issued regulation.

In October, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo signed a regulation stipulating measured annual wage increases taking into account the current fiscal year’s inflation and gross domestic product (GDP) growth rates.

Reportedly, minimum wages multiplied by the inflation rate would ensure steady purchasing power, while the GDP rate factor would guarantee that increases in overall productivity were appreciated.

The regulation replaced a formula that was based on the basic cost of living (KHL) survey of 84 basic commodities and other daily needs of workers.

The unions have argued that the new formula would not take into account their voice. With the old formula, a tripartite meeting was held annually, consisting of the government, employers and workers.

Labor unions are the biggest grassroots power in Indonesia.

“The government no longer listens to its people. We, as the main stakeholder in the wage issue, do not have any say since the regulation was issued,” said Ilham Syah from the All-Indonesia United Workers Confederation (KPBI) .

Ilham said that with the power of hundreds of thousands of workers, the three-day rally would cripple the capital’s economic activity, adding that workers would not hesitate to extend the strike period if the government refused to revise the regulation.

“For example, there are tens of thousands of workers from almost 100 factories in Cakung, East Jakarta, alone. They will empty the factories and march to stage a rally in their area,” he vowed.

He said the strike would be held in a peaceful manner and gave his assurances that unions would not force workers to join the strike.

Confederation of Indonesian Workers’ Unions (KSPI) chairman Said Iqbal took the opportunity to protest the Jakarta Police’s decision to name the union’s secretary-general, Muhammad Rusdi, a suspect following an incident during an October rally protesting the regulation.

According to Said, at the Tuesday rallies, workers would also demand that the police discontinue the investigation into his secretary-general, saying he had not committed any violations. “If the case goes on and Rudi is arrested, the strike will keep going for days,” he said.

On Oct. 30, 34 workers, including Rusdi, were arrested during a demonstration in front of the State Palace demanding the revision of the regulation. The demonstration turned violent as two activists from the LBH Jakarta suffered serious injuries when police dispersed the protesters.

Later, the police named Rusdi a suspect in the incident and charged him under Article 216 of the Criminal Code, which stipulates that those who disobey orders from officials could face a maximum 10-week jail sentence.

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10th December 2015, 02:36

No More Faintings! It’s Time for a Raise!

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Dear Chris,

For years now in Cambodia there has been an ongoing series of mass faintings, often stemming from malnutrition, affecting thousands of garment workers who sew clothing for export. These workers, who toil long hours, sometimes up to 14 hours a day, earn an extremely low minimum wage of $128/month. Two years ago, when striking garment workers protested for higher wages, five were shot dead by police.

Fourteen Cambodian unions have launched a joint call for a Global Day of Action on December 10th, International Human Rights Day (https://www.z2systems.com/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=laborrights&emailId=78c2d2967e73a571f701ff7cb2a1dd257m10519317 8c&secureId=OF4U7VVi3j%2BaZMdwU%2F74kQ%3D%3D&linkId=3243&targetUrl=http://laborrights.org/dec10). They are urging the government to adopt a new minimum wage of $177/month and they are asking for our support in calling on apparel brands and retailers to negotiate a legally-binding agreement with Cambodian unions and mandate a base wage of $177/month in their supplier factories, as a first step toward a living wage.

While some brands that source from Cambodia have voiced support for the concept of a living wage, they haven’t taken meaningful action to ensure their suppliers pay decent wages. Now we are at a critical moment as the Cambodian government deliberates the new minimum wage. So if top brands are serious about ensuring workers’ health and decent wages, they need to act now.

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In solidarity,

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14th December 2015, 00:37

Tell H&M: sweatshops in Cambodia are never in style

Chris --

Today, on International Human Rights Day, a coalition of unions representing over 250,000 workers across Cambodia are organizing to demand a raise in the federal minimum wage. The current minimum wage in Cambodia is $128/month, but garment workers who manufacture apparel for brands such as H&M, the GAP, Zara, and Walmart, need at least $177/month to afford basic necessities such as food, healthcare, and housing. Although these workers generate huge profits for popular brands, their current wages leave them fainting on the job from malnutrition, and unable to send their children to school.

Workers can’t wait for living wages - take action now to support garment workers in Cambodia during today’s global day of action. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4gA/ni0YAA/t.1su/j_DQDUE4RKSH1SJmydphMA/h0/s9UZfrb6Q27TWXqKDCB9bGa5TUDRbvksHEjiDKhcZ-2FHWnDq5-2Fk5zYm-2BQ-2F0b1CuAPfEdJWDWvYJw31u4V8nhxNStNYjW9EMjHu7pxZp4ws 29Rx1dO7Mj-2F6qsn5WYmSxi6ScxfLzB-2FeuajjsmU1xWoH97guJHkLu-2BphGx-2F-2B6U7QNxQnYuAQq-2BwQ8C31X3QgiIR72d-2FaXv1miEnP5h9eA0ay7mwHck2VcGYa772lZCi2-2BrNJ2wW6-2Fmkw1o6EX27tK9o7ELjvEu2P0t-2FSaUi1c7sGY9TFK-2FjI9-2BaP3ii29bwRg9CX2Kzyu9YRAKrlVzt5p5N1nxcLAtNZ3KdAjO-2FYZCmsy8b3UiHcuXjwFRklNuxBTXYqce57-2BGUPW7lXHoKJXW3Y03PDbRjUx2I0TPdszFwjNwBEdD8h7n3IS hJ92IyB34ZrUnfLQDMcIWcBv5YqLcN)

But workers aren’t stopping at living wages -- they’re demanding jobs with dignity. This means workers are asking that brands make long-term commitments to source from factories that meet basic labor standards, and engage with unions through legally-binding collective bargaining agreements. While some of these brands have voiced support, these sentiments remain empty promises until they take meaningful action.

In light of this, and as part of today’s global day of action, USAS members like myself are organizing actions at H&M stores across the country to demand H&M, one of the largest producers of apparel in Cambodia, listens to the needs of workers in its supplier factories.

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Solidarity,

Jennifer Edwards

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USAS Local 1

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14th December 2015, 00:49

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3 million strike in Indonesia for a living wage

10.12.2015

Some 3 million workers participated in peaceful demonstrations and actions organized by unions in Indonesia on 24 – 27 November. Yet again the police responded with violence and detained a number of union activists.

Massive mobilizations were organized by three Indonesian trade union centres KSPI (FSPMI, Farkes, SPN,KEP, ISI), KSPSI (CEMWU) and KSBSI (Lomenik, FPE, Garteks) in spite of a strong pressure from the ministry of labour, employers and police. They had labelled the strike illegal and threatened the protesters with sanctions and penalties.

According to eyewitness reports, police used tear gas and water cannons against the demonstrators, who were rallying against the governments proposed minimum wage reforms. A number of trade union activists were detained, but later released by the police.

The national strike was a response to the government’s announcement of minimum wage reforms, which would leave workers in poverty for another five years.

According to new regulations, the minimum wage would be calculated on the basis of inflation and overall economic growth, meaning that in practice workers’ wages would be far lower than the minimum living standards.

IndustriALL general secretary Jyrki Raina said:

We condemn these continued fierce attacks on workers in Indonesia and are deeply disappointed that the government allow brutal methods against peaceful demonstrations.

“We demand an immediate stop to all prosecutions against protesters involved in the national strike. Our members deserve decent living conditions and we will continue to support our affiliates in Indonesia and everywhere in the world in their struggle for a living wage.”

The unions’ demand that the government withdraw/cancel the government regulation on minimum wage no 78/2015 which is in opposition to labour law no 13/2003, act no 88 & 89 reject the minimum wage regulation, as it hinders the existing minimum wage calculation practice and create structural poverty for workers increase the minimum wage by 2.6 per cent and all wages for 2016 by IDR 500.000 (US$36), while sectorial wages be must higher than the minimum wage.

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17th December 2015, 22:22

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China: coordinated police crackdown on labour rights activists
Labour rights activists are being held in criminal detention following a wide-scale police crackdown in the southeastern Chinese province of Guangdong December 3-5. Police targeted independent worker rights centers and arrested, questioned and detained staff and volunteers against a background of factory closures and rising worker protests and strikes. Seven of the more than two dozen arrested activists are either in detention or cannot be contacted. Confirmed as being in detention and denied access to lawyers for reasons of 'national security' are Panyu Workers' Centre director Zeng Feiyang and staff member Zhu Xiaomei; Foshan Nanfeiyan Social Work Services Organization director He Xiaobo; and Deng Xiaoming.

The IUF-affiliated Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) and Globalization Monitor have initiated an online petition to the Chinese government, calling for the immediate release of all detained activists and an end to the repression of labour rights organizations. CLICK HERE (http://iuf.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=6a1ecdf0b3&e=090f0b0646) to add your name or that of your organization to the petition - links to translation in various languages are at the top of the page, scroll down for the English text.

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19th December 2015, 23:29

US Phillips Seafood creates illegal company union to block Indonesian workers' fight for rights

Phillips Seafood creates illegal company union in Indonesia in response to fight for rights

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US-based Phillips Seafood has reacted to the international campaign calling for the reinstatement of unfairly terminated workers and union recognition by introducing a new product in their factory in Lampung, Indonesia: a management-manufactured union. The factory management created the fake union, then threatened and harassed workers into joining. With the vast majority of workers on daily standby waiting to receive a text message to report to work, the company easily used the threat of "no text message, no job" to coerce workers into joining. Management then conducted a "union vote", instructing workers to choose between the real union and the newly manufactured management union. Two local labour department officers were brought in to make the proceedings look official.

With the support of the IUF-affiliated Federation of Lampung Workers' Unions (FSBL) the union rejected the verification as illegal. Workers refused to vote on December 16 and the verification was cancelled. The role of the two labour department officials, and Phillips Seafood's role in the arrangement, is now under government investigation. And the workers are more determined than ever to fight for and win their rights.

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21st February 2016, 20:22

Egypt: Protest the torture and murder of Giulio Regeni

Giulio Regeni, a young Italian academic researching independent trade unions in Egypt, disappeared from the streets of Cairo on January 25 - the fifth anniversary of Egypt's democratic uprising. Nine days later his body was found, bearing the marks of torture.

Thousands of academics from around the world have called for an independent investigation into Regini's death as well as the disappearances, torture and deaths in detention which have become routine under the Sisi government. Labourstart has launched an appeal for trade unionists to support these demands - CLICK HERE (http://iuf.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=2926eb9433&e=090f0b0646) to support the campaign.

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29th February 2016, 19:48

For Esmail and Said, and for us, the struggle continues

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The fight for workers' rights seems to be a never-ending struggle. So it's with a sense of deja vu that we have two campaigns to announce today which may sound very familiar.

Esmail Abdi is a leading teacher trade unionist in Iran. Last year, at the request of the Education International (EI), we ran an online campaign which thousands of you supported, after he was arrested en route to attend an EI congress. This week, he was sentenced to six years in prison for his work as a trade unionist. He has committed no crime. Help us get Abdi released; please sign up to this campaign:

http://www.labourstart.org/go/freeabdi

Another union activist, Said Elhairech in Morocco, was the subject of highly successful LabourStart campaign we launched at the request of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF). Then in prison, our campaign helped to get him released. But now the ITF has come to us for help again, because Said has been dismissed from his job by the local port operator. His efforts to promote and advance trade union rights have been branded "a nuisance" and workers have been falsely told he doesn't represent them anymore. Meanwhile other trade union colleagues face victimisation, intimidation and threats of dismissal at the hands of their employer. Please help us demand that Said be given his job back and workers' rights be respected:

http://www.labourstart.org/go/said

A big thanks to the more than 10,000 of you who very quickly turned our campaign demanding justice for murdered Italian researcher Giulio Regeni into one of our largest. But we need many more people to sign up, so please share this link widely:

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We have news about a number of recent LabourStart campaigns which have closed, some of it very good news indeed.
A week ago, EI announced that Omar Ali Ewado, the jailed teacher trade union leader from Djibouti, was released from prison. Full details are here.
Meanwhile, an Israeli court has ruled in favour of the Palestinian trade unionist Hatem Abu Ziadeh, whose sacking prompted a LabourStart campaign that got 8,500 messages sent. For the report from WAC-MAAN on this important victory, click here.
Finally, an update on the situation of Libyan woman trade unionist Nermin Al-Sharif from the ITF: In December Nermin came to an ITF meeting in the Arab world. She said that the LabourStart campaign and every message of support she received made her feel stronger and helped her recovery. She is now back working for the Dockers and Seafarers Union in Libya, she has successfully organised road transport workers, and is leading a campaign to help Libyan refugees who have left the country. She knows the threat to her life remains, but with your backing she is determined to continue her important work.

Thanks for all your support.

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2nd March 2016, 12:45

Gambia: Union leader dies in prison - demand justice for Sheriff Diba

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Last month, the president of Gambia responded to trade union protests against customs tax increases and fuel prices by banning union activities.

Three union leaders were arrested.

One of them, Sheriff Diba of the Gambian National Transport Control Association, died in prison.

This followed reports of brutal treatment at the hands of the National Intelligence Agency.

At the request of the International Transport Workers Federation, we have launched an online campaign demanding justice for Sheriff and an end to repression.

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Please share this message with your friends, family, and fellow trade union members.

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10th March 2016, 18:35

Free jailed Colombian teacher trade unionist

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Dr Miguel Ángel Beltrán, a Colombian academic and member of the higher education union ASPU, was arrested on charges of rebellion in July 2015 and unjustly sentenced to eight years' imprisonment in a high security prison in Bogota.

The Education International, representing teachers' trade unions around the world, is demanding his release.

Dr Beltrán is a critic of the Colombian government and recently went on hunger strike to demand that his case be reviewed, and that conditions for other prisoners be improved.

He needs our support.

If we can flood the Colombian government with messages of protest, we can help get him released from prison.

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10th March 2016, 18:49

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IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the Mexican Miners’ and Metalworkers’ Union also known as ‘Los Mineros’, has launched a strike against Arcelor Mittal at its steel plant in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán in western Mexico.

IndustriALL extends its total support to some 3,500 workers who began the strike on 4 March in response to dismissals and violations of their collective agreement by the company.

The workers scheduled the strike to begin at midday on 4 March. However, one hour before midday, the Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board (JFCA) informed them it had ruled the strike to be inadmissible. This opened up the possibility that the JFCA might declare the strike to be null and void.

Jorge Almeida, IndustriALL Regional Secretary, wrote to the president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, on the same day to ask him to intervene immediately to ensure respect for the workers’ right to strike and to strongly condemn violations of the collective agreement by Arcelor Mittal México Hierro.

“The ILO says the right to strike is one of the fundamental legitimate means open to workers and their organizations to promote and defend their economic and social interests,” said Almeida.

The workers organized a march along the city’s main street to the offices of Arcelor Mittal to denounce more than 300 unfair dismissals since 2015 and violations of the collective agreement. They are still picketing the company’s offices.

The Labour and Social Welfare Department through the JFCA, described the protest as “the occupation of Arcelor Mittal premises by the workers” and urged the Los Mineros to prioritize dialogue. In an official statement, the company described the protest as “an illegal blockade” and said it was open to talks with the union and in direct contact with the authorities about resuming operations.

The union released a statement in which it said it had attempted conciliation several times but it had decided to strike as the company had not responded in a satisfactory manner:

“The strike is not the dispute, it is a procedure to seek a solution to the dispute. Otherwise, workers would have no way of defending themselves against the company’s failure to comply with the official collective agreement,” it explained.

The union wrote to the government asking it to ensure respect for the national and universal right to strike, reject reprisals against the striking workers and facilitate conciliation and dialogue in order to find a solution to the dispute. It is still awaiting a reply.

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13th April 2016, 16:45

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Dear colleagues,

Following our joint efforts last year including a number of global days of action, LafargeHolcim became more receptive to workers’ concerns, however our campaign is not yet over.

Please, send the message to LafargeHolcim’s CEO to keep the pressure on and make them respect workers’ rights! (http://industriall-union.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3f908bd1636f1b0a4e2fd2e79&id=4c51fe25eb&e=732a6f1991)

The company has not properly addressed all of our questions, we have not signed a Global Framework Agreement and workers keep paying the price for the merger with their jobs and even their lives. The statistics are appalling: some 70 LafargeHolcim workers die every single year; some 90 per cent of them are not directly employed.

Therefore our demands remain:

Continued dialogue with unions at a global level aiming to reach an agreement covering all the company’s worksites before the end of this year. The agreement must ensure fundamental international labour standards are respected and include a joint union-management monitoring group.
Form a global joint union-management body (World union Committee or World Works Council) ensuring a fruitful social dialogue at a global level.
Improved health and safety for all directly and indirectly employed workers through joint health and safety committees with trade union representatives in all workplaces.

Send the message to LafargeHolcim’s CEO to demand now that LafargeHolcim respect workers’ rights!

Please, distribute this message widely around your colleagues, let management see our unity and that we will not give up until all our demands are met.

We continue to publish regular updates on the LafargeHoclcim campaign Facebook page, including about IndustriALL’s early February workshops in India, Indonesia and Philippines. Send us your reports or links to stories related to the campaign. Please, make sure you ‘like’ the page and follow the campaign updates.

If you have any questions or needs, do not hesitate to contact IndustriALL, BWI or EFBWW. 

In solidarity, 
IndustriALL, BWI, EFBWW

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Chers/Chères collègues,

Dans le sillage des efforts conjoints qui ont été déployés l’an passé, parmi lesquels un certain nombre de journées mondiales d’action, le groupe LafargeHolcim s’est montré plus réceptif aux préoccupations des travailleurs et travailleuses, mais notre campagne n’en est pas pour autant terminée.

Veuillez passer le message au PDG de LafargeHolcim afin de maintenir la pression et amener le groupe à respecter les droits des travailleurs !

L’entreprise n’a pas répondu convenablement à toutes nos questions, nous n’avons pas signé d’Accord-cadre mondial et les travailleurs et travailleuses continuent de subir les conséquences de la fusion, en payant de leur emploi, et parfois même de leur vie. Les statistiques sont horrifiantes : près de 70 salariés de LafargeHolcim décèdent chaque année ; et près de 90 pour cent d’entre eux ne sont pas directement employés par l’entreprise.

Par conséquent, nos revendications sont inchangées :

Assurer un dialogue continu avec les syndicats à l’échelon mondial, en vue de parvenir à un accord couvrant l’ensemble des lieux de travail rattachés à l’entreprise avant la fin de cette année. L’accord doit assurer le respect des normes internationales fondamentales en matière de travail et inclure un groupe de suivi conjoint syndicat-direction.
Constituer une instance mondiale conjointe syndicat-direction (Commission syndicale mondiale ou Comité d’entreprise mondial) assurant un dialogue social fructueux au niveau mondial.
Améliorer la santé et la sécurité pour tous les travailleurs employés directement et indirectement, à travers des comités conjoints de sécurité et de santé au travail et des délégués syndicaux sur l’ensemble des lieux de travail.

Passez le message au PDG de LafargeHolcim afin d’exiger dès à présent le respect des droits des travailleurs par l’entreprise !

Veuillez diffuser ce message largement auprès de vos collègues afin que la direction constate combien nous sommes unis et qu’elle comprenne que nous ne lâcherons pas prise tant que nos revendications n’auront pas été honorées.

Nous continuons à publier régulièrement des mises à jour sur la page Facebook consacrée à la campagne LafargeHolcim, y compris au sujet des ateliers organisés début février par IndustriALL en Inde, en Indonésie et aux Philippines. Transmettez-nous vos rapports ou vos liens vers des récits liés à la campagne. Assurez-vous d’« aimer » la page et de suivre les mises à jour concernant la campagne.

Pour toutes questions ou d’éventuels besoins, n’hésitez pas à entrer en contact avec IndustriALL, l’IBB ou la FETBB.

Solidairement,
IndustriALL, IBB, FETBB

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Estimados compañeros y compañeras,

Tras la intensa labor que realizamos juntos el año pasado, incluidos varios días mundiales de acción, LafargeHolcim ha empezado a mostrarse más receptivo a las preocupaciones de los trabajadores. No obstante, nuestra campaña no ha concluido aún.

Los invitamos a que envíen mensajes al Director General de LafargeHolcim para mantener la presión y obligar a la empresa a respetar los derechos de los trabajadores!

La empresa no ha dado una respuesta adecuada a nuestras preguntas, no se ha logrado concluir un acuerdo marco global y los trabajadores siguen pagando las consecuencias de la fusión con sus empleos y hasta con sus vidas. Las estadísticas son abrumadoras: unos 70 trabajadores de LafargeHolcim mueren cada año. Cerca del 90% de esos trabajadores no tiene una relación de empleo directa con la empresa.

Por consiguiente, nuestras demandas siguen en pie:

Proseguir el diálogo a nivel mundial con los sindicatos con miras a sellar un acuerdo que abarque todos los centros de trabajo de la empresa antes de fin de año. El acuerdo debe garantizar el respeto de las normas fundamentales del trabajo reconocidas internacionalmente e incluir la creación de un grupo de supervisión formado por representantes de los sindicatos y de la dirección.
Crear un órgano mundial formado de representantes de los sindicatos y la dirección (Comité sindical mundial o Comité de empresa mundial), que permita mantener un diálogo social fecundo a nivel mundial.
Mejorar las condiciones de salud y seguridad para todos los trabajadores, sean estos empleados directos o indirectos de la empresa, mediante la creación de comités conjuntos de salud y seguridad con representantes sindicales en todos los centros de trabajo.

¡Envía el mensaje al Director General de LafargeHolcim para exigir que LafargeHolcim respete los derechos de los trabajadores¡

Difundan este mensaje entre todos sus compañeros y compañeras. Es importante que la dirección se dé cuenta de que estamos unidos y de que no cejaremos en nuestros esfuerzos hasta que se atiendan todas nuestras demandas.

Seguiremos publicando noticias regulares en la página de la campaña de LafargeHoclcim en Facebook, incluidos los talleres de IndustriALL celebrados a principios de febrero en la India, Indonesia y Filipinas. Envíen sus informes o enlaces de relatos relacionados con la campaña. No olviden señalar que la página “les gusta” y podrán seguir las noticas de la campaña.

Si tienen preguntas, no duden en ponerse en contacto con IndustriALL, la ICM o la FETCM. 

Saludos solidarios, 
IndustriALL, ICM y FETCM

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22nd April 2016, 18:37

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Italian metalworkers hold a successful national strike

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On 20 April, Italian metalworkers held a massive successful mobilization during a four-hour national strike across the country.

According to IndustriALL affiliates Fim, Fiom and Uilm the national average participation exceeded 75 per cent. In many factories and offices all activities remained completely blocked. Rallies and meetings were organized at almost 100 central squares all over Italy.

One the most successful mobilizations took place at Comer Industries (Reggio Emilia province) at the home company of current president of Federmeccanica (Italian Employers' Federation of Metalworking Industries). Some 90 per cent of 430 employees went on strike, and at GE Oil & Gas in Florence, the company where the current general director of the metalworking industry organization of employers comes from, 70 per cent went on strike.

The strike was a clear signal of support to the negotiations over renewal of the national contract for metalworkers. The unions believe it is now up to management to answer workers’ demands.

Marco Bentivoglio, general secretary of Fim, finishing the union rally in Naples said, "The number of participants in the strike disprove the predictions of President Federmeccanica, Fabio Storchi. The workers have realized that we need a change, we need a breakthrough agreement that does not leave anybody on the street. Federmeccanica had thrown us a challenge: today’s response is the strongest we could give. What the employers in metal industry should do is to to reopen the negotiations already tonight and to make a contract."

Maurizio Landini, general secretary of Fiom from the stage in Milan in front of Assolombarda (Industrial association of province of Milan) said, "This is the time for the country to restart the economy. The success of the strike shows how metalworkers want the renewal of the national contract, to which they have their right. Federmeccanica tomorrow must reopen the negotiations, I do not want to take responsibility for a conflict which now the country does not need."

Rocco Palombella, ending the rally in front of Reggio Emilia Industrial Union said, "Federmeccanica, change your contractual offer, start from wages, and call us as soon as possible to the negotiating table. It is unacceptable that the leaders of metalworkers employers propose to divide one million six hundred thousand workers in the industry with different offer and equally different payroll increases."

In his letter of support to the Italian metalworkers’ strike Jyrki Raina, general secretary of IndustriALL Global Union, said,

“IndustriALL Global Union fully supports your demands, which call on the employers’ associations Federmeccanica and Assistal, to reconsider a proposal that would deny to 95 percent of metalworkers a possible increase that is stipulated in the new agreement, it would limit bargaining only to the company or local level, and it would curtail the rights of temporary and subcontract workers.”

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28th April 2016, 16:30

PepsiCo complicity in human rights abuses deepens

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Global drink and snacks giant PepsiCo is complicit in ongoing human rights violations by a warehouse provider in the Indian state of West Bengal. Since 2013, IUF members have been supporting a courageous group of warehouse workers who are unemployed as a consequence of insisting on their right to form a trade union. The company which dismissed them - Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt. Ltd (RKFL) - operates a warehouse contracted exclusively to PEPSICO.

In the course of the long struggle, already precarious one-year contracts have been unilaterally replaced with contracts for 3 months, pushing rights even further out of reach. And PepsiCo, which claims to have a rigorous supplier code and a strong dedication to international human rights standards, stands firmly behind its supplier's practices.

PepsiCo's refusal to recognize and to remedy ongoing human rights violations makes it complicit in human rights abuses - complicity that leaves their supplier code and their claimed dedication to human rights in tatters.

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30th April 2016, 19:10

Uzbekistan - defend human rights defenders monitoring abuses in the cotton harvest (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/4964)

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4th May 2016, 15:59

Solidarity with detained labour activists in China!

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The Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) is calling for international solidarity with labour activists in Guangdong Province still in detention following a repressive crackdown (http://iuf.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=886a4a2b24&e=090f0b0646) last December targeting at least 25 activists and their organizations.

Five detained activists were eventually released following global advocacy and actions by Chinese workers. However, Zeng Feiyang, director of the Panyu Migrant Workers Centre, and his colleague Meng Han continue to be detained.

The HKCTU is organizing support for their release and a halt to the crackdown on civil society and has requested international solidarity. Individuals and organizations are encouraged to download this postcard image (http://iuf.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=9656c2ee4d&e=090f0b0646), fold the picture in half and join the two sides to make a postcard, write an optional message and mail it to the Chinese Embassy or Consulate in your country. Organizations are encouraged to collect signed postcards, photograph postcard actions and upload them to social media or email to [email protected] mentioning the total number of postcards collected.

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6th May 2016, 17:29

[email protected] #191 - Global solidarity on May Day

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Rio Tinto unions build solidarity as company reaches out

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The Rio Tinto global union network met in Brisbane, Australia this week, bringing together nearly fifty union leaders from Rio Tinto in eleven countries to discuss recent developments and update the network’s program of action.
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IndustriALL affiliates around the world took to the streets to celebrate May Day 2016, calling out for a living wage and a stop to precarious work.
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IndustriALL in solidarity with 40,000 striking Verizon workers

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IndustriALL Global Union has expressed its solidarity with around 40,000 Verizon communications workers in the United States that have been on strike since 13 April.
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IndustriALL Global Union’s affiliates in Madagascar say they are determined to stand up for the collective rights of workers against multinational companies in a country where, despite enormous mineral wealth, 70 per cent of the population live on less than US$2 a day.
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Thirty-three women leaders from twelve IndustriALL affiliates in the Philippines completed a two-day workshop on Gender Equality in Collective Bargaining, held in San Mateo, Rizal from 25-26 April 2016.
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9th May 2016, 20:20

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Orhan Akman, a German trade union organizer who has been working for UNI Americas in Peru over the last few years, has been expelled from the country.

Together with LabourStart, UNI have set up a petition to show solidarity with Orhan Akman and workers all around the world who are being unfairly targeted by companies and governments for their union activity. Please sign the petition to show your support!

On 12th of May there will be an international day of action to support Akman and the rights to freedom of association and trade union organising. We ask you to join with other unions from your country and to go to the Peruvian embassy or consulate in your city / country and to hand over a protest letter addressed to the President of Peru. Please adapt the template letter in this webstory for your union or organisation and present the letter to your nearest Peruvian embassy.

Through peaceful demonstrations alongside Peruvian workers, Akman has successfully overseen unionization and collective bargaining at companies such as Cencosud and Sutragucep. The Peruvian government has accused Akman of “disrupting public order, tranquility and social peace” and has therefore been refused reentry to the country.

Despite the authorities claiming to have evidence to corroborate these claims, no proof has been produced. We demand that Mr. Akman’s name be completely cleared and that he is entitled to freely enter and move throughout the country.

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16th May 2016, 20:42

Union organizer expelled from Peru - protest now

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Orhan Akman.Orhan Akman (pictured), a German trade union organizer who has been working for UNI Americas in Peru over the last few years, has been expelled from the country.

Through peaceful demonstrations alongside Peruvian workers, Akman has successfully overseen unionization and collective bargaining at companies such as Cencosud.

The Peruvian government has accused Akman of “disrupting public order, tranquility and social peace” and has therefore been refused reentry to the country.

Despite the authorities claiming to have evidence to corroborate these claims, no proof has been produced.

Demand that Orhan Akman’s name be completely cleared and that he is entitled to freely enter and move throughout the country -- click here (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=f4b85d9f78&e=4e93ef2fad) and spread the word.

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17th May 2016, 20:49

Good news: Iranian union leader released from prison

Esmail Abdi, the Iranian teacher trade unionist who has been in prison since he was barred from travelling to an international conference last year, has now been released on bail.

This is great news, and is due in part to the online campaign waged by the Education International and LabourStart.

Our thousands of email protest messages play a role. And the more messages that we send, the more likely we will achieve our goals.

This morning we've launched yet another campaign in defense of workers' rights.

This time our focus is Amdocs Israel, a high-tech company that believes its workers have no need for a trade union and is doing what it can to block union organizing. Those workers have asked for our help. Please take a moment to learn more and send your message telling the company to recognize the union:

http://www.labourstart.org/go/histadrut

Union busting continues in Turkey, where workers at CP Chicken have also launched a campaign on LabourStart. Not enough of us have signed up for that one and I encourage you help spread the word. Visit the campaign page to show your support:

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24th May 2016, 14:37

Four-week hotel strike in Norway ends with important gains for workers

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The IUF-affiliated Fellesforbundet in Norway reached an agreement with employers on May 21 which brings important gains and ends the national strike which began on April 24 and had been steadily escalating, bringing out 7,000 workers in 800 hotels. Fellesforbundet launched the strike when major hotel chains including Scandic and Radisson and the employers association rejected the union's demand for higher wages and local negotiations to supplement the national agreement.

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The union has won the right to negotiate locally, a right that other sectors within Fellesforbundet have had since 1907. The settlement brings a wage increase for the lowest paid as well as an increase in the hourly wage.

Over 3,000 new members joined the union in the course of the strike, 1,000 of them in the hotel and restaurant sectors, boosting membership by 14 percent. Fellesforbundet has thanked the international trade union movement for the support and solidarity they received during the strike.

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29th May 2016, 15:23

Strike ends with union win at Covered Bridge Potato Chips in Canada

Last month we appealed to you to send messages in support of UFCW Canada members at Covered Bridge Potato Chips on strike for union recognition and a first collective agreement. The fight has ended successfully with union members ratifying a first collective agreement on May 24, putting an end to the five month strike and a two year struggle at the Wakefield, New Brunswick snack food processor.

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The three-year agreement achieved all of the major goals of the members including seniority provisions, job protection language, and wage and benefit gains.

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29th May 2016, 15:28

Forestry workers challenge mining company - and need our support

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The people of the Cerattepe region in Turkey are fighting to stop their land from being destroyed by a mining company that wants to cut down the forests and pollute the water in order to mine gold, silver and copper.

In February, protests took place against the mining plans of the company, Cengiz Holding. Demonstrators were beaten by police, and authorities are threatening union members at the local forestry directorate who joined the protests. Those workers have been told they will be transferred to other regions of the country if they don't give up.

The forestry workers union has now turned to us with an urgent request for help. Join our action to demand an immediate stop to the mining plans and the harassment of union members:

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6th June 2016, 12:24

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1,950 workers continue strike action at GSK Horlicks factory in India

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Members of the IUF-affiliated Milk Food Factory Workers Union at the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Horlicks dairy beverage factory in India continue their strike action to protest the company's assault on trade union rights.

Collective bargaining negotiations at the Horlicks factory in Nabha, located in Punjab state in northwest India, commenced in September 2015 but were soon deadlocked over management's attempt to outsource jobs and its refusal to convert casual workers to permanent positions. Management reacted to the deadlock with a series of attacks on the union, including the suspension of 23 union members. Although mediation by the local labour office compelled GSK Horlicks management to withdraw the suspension of the 23 on March 19, just two days later the company escalated its aggressive efforts to undermine the trade union by suspending the union president, Mewa Singh.

The strike by 1,950 workers is now in its 16th day. The factory remains closed and union members will not return to work until the suspension of the union president is withdrawn and the company commits to engaging in good faith collective bargaining.

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8th June 2016, 14:37

137,101 reasons why we win

At the end of May, we received a wonderful message from Paul R. Meinema, the National President of UFCW Canada. Paul was writing to thank LabourStart for the support we gave to striking workers at Covered Bridge Potato Chips.

The workers at Covered Bridge are celebrating their victory after a five month strike as workers ratified a first collective bargaining agreement.

All we had done was pass on a link to a campaign hosted by the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF). The IUF has more details of the victory here.

As Paul put it in his message to us, "The courage and determination of the members at Covered Bridge were strengthened by the knowledge that across Canada and the world, their brothers and sisters in the labour movement stood in solidarity with them. Your LabourStart online campaign to
mobilize activists led to thousands of letters being sent in support of the workers at Covered Bridge Potato Chip, and provided a powerful message that bolstered the efforts to bring a positive resolution to the five-month strike."

The victory at Covered Bridge shows just how powerful our online campaigns can be when we work together closely with unions on the ground.

Please take a moment to support these LabourStart campaigns today if you've not yet done so:

Turkey: Support the union members fighting to save the forests of Cerattepe
Israel: Amdocs must recognise union
Peru: Union organizer expelled
Uzbekistan: Defend human rights activist Uktam Pardaev
Turkey: CP Chicken workers fight back against wage cut

These IUF campaigns also need our support:

PepsiCo complicit in ongoing rights violations at Indian warehouse supplier
Swedish foodworkers fighting Findus factory closure by asset strippers Nomad Foods
Tell the European Commission to ban glyphosate and get off the pesticide treadmill!
Vicious union-busting at Moroccan fish canner DOHA
Carlsberg/Cambrew dismisses striking beer promotion women in Cambodia!
Workers taste bitter repression at International Flavors & Fragrances in Turkey!

There are 137,101 of you on LabourStart's mailing lists. If we act together, if we spread the word in our unions about these campaigns, we can help workers in all these countries fight and win.

Just like we did with those workers at Covered Bridge Potato Chips.

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17th June 2016, 15:12

26 day strike ends at GSK Horlicks with reinstatement and permanent jobs

Posted: 16 Jun 2016 08:06 AM PDT

Strike action at the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Horlicks dairy beverage factory in India has ended in victory with the reinstatement of the union president, unconditional withdrawal of all charges against union leaders and members and permanent jobs for 160 long-term casual workers.

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18th June 2016, 14:35

LabourStart and the fight for workers' rights

Yesterday, I returned from Oslo where I've spent the last several days. I was there to participate in the ceremony where LabourStart received the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights.

The ceremony was followed by a panel discussion about trade union rights in the Middle East in which I participated, together with three people who've been featured in LabourStart campaigns:

Nermin Al-Sharif, head of the Libyan Dockers’ and Seafarers’ Union, victim of an assassination attempt.
Kamal Abbas, founder of the Cairo-based Centre for Trade Union and Workers Services, arrested numerous times by the authorities for his work.
Mahdi Abu Dheeb, president of the Bahrain Teachers Association, just released after five years in prison.

I thought you might be interested in reading what I said at the prize ceremony on behalf of LabourStart.

To learn more about the Svensson prize, visit their website.

We've been posting media coverage of the event -- almost entirely in Norwegian -- on LabourStart's Facebook page.

I hope you find this of interest -- and please share with your fellow union members.

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Philippines: Brave rights struggle continues at Mount Malarayat Golf & Country Club

Posted: 17 Jun 2016 10:31 PM PDT

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Five years after the union at Mount Malarayat Golf and Country Club won legal recognition, management still refuses to recognize the union and respect the right to collective bargaining. Spirited protest actions outside the resort over the past two weeks successfully forced management into compulsory arbitration by the office of the Secretary of Labor.

IUF solidarity with Korean unions as government steps up repression

Posted: 17 Jun 2016 06:56 AM PDT

Government prosecutors are demanding eight years imprisonment for Han Sang-gyun, President of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), charged with committing 'criminal offenses' for the organization's role in organizing strikes and protests to contest government policies which would further casualize employment and reduce the scope for trade union activity.

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23rd June 2016, 14:30

sacked for recruiting union members at UK food maker Samworth Brothers!

Sacked for recruiting union members in dispute over rights and recognition!

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British food company Samworth Brothers, which supplies baked goods and other products to major UK retailers, responded to the introduction of the UK National Living Wage in April by eliminating paid breaks and premium pay for unsocial hours and overtime, measures which can reduce workers' pay by thousands of pounds per year. When hundreds of workers responded to these attacks by joining the IUF-affiliated Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, Samworth Brothers bosses responded by harassing Kumaran Bose, a leading union organizer who spoke out against the attack on pay and conditions, and then sacking him from his job at Samworth's Kettleby Foods on June 3.

Kumaran's only offense was to convince over 50% of the workers at his factory to join the union - he has worked there for 12 years with a spotless record. Samworth Brothers, who last year booked profits of over GBP 41 million, refuses to recognize the Bakers union at his site despite the union's majority membership.

The union is energetically defending Kumaran and is appealing the company's refusal of voluntary on-site recognition.

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Posted: 22 Jun 2016 01:31 AM PDT

The IUF strongly condemns the June 17 detention of Arzu Cerkezoglu, general secretary of the national trade union center DISK, on charges of 'insulting the President' in a speech she delivered last year. Cerkezoglu is not the first trade unionist to be investigated or charged with insulting the President, nor will she be the last, unless the government of Turkey is effectively pressured to respect fundamental democratic rights.

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23rd June 2016, 15:00

"Our beauty comes from our strength, our strength from resistance"

That's one of the slogans used by protesting workers -- most of them women -- who work for the global cosmetics giant Avon in Turkey. Last month, several were sacked as part of a union-busting drive by the employer.

The workers are demanding that Avon hire back the fired workers, register all the workers as permanent employees, and recognize the union. In addition, the union is campaigning for an agreement with the company to provide reasonable wages, hours, benefits and working conditions, and a woman-friendly and harassment-free workplace.

To learn more and to show your support for these workers, please visit:

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24th June 2016, 16:54

[email protected] #198 - Hyundai: stop union busting at your suppliers

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Friday 24 June marks 100 days since 41-year-old Han Kwang-ho (pictured), a union organizer at a Hyundai auto part supplier in South Korea, committed suicide.

Han, an elected union official for a branch of IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the Korean Metal Workers’ Union (KMWU), suffered five years of intimidation, repression and attacks in retaliation for his trade union activities at YooSung Enterprise, a key supplier for Hyundai Motor Company.

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Han, an elected union official for a branch of IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the Korean Metal Workers’ Union, suffered five years of intimidation, repression and attacks in retaliation for his trade union activities at YooSung Enterprise, a key supplier for Hyundai Motor Company.

In January this year, evidence revealed that Hyundai conspired with YooSung Enterprise and labour management-consulting firm, Changjo, to crush the union at the factory. Their extensive and aggressive anti-union campaign began in 2011 and continues to this day.

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[email protected] # 199

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Nissan workers in Paris stage protest against anti-union policies

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Workers from the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, US, with the support of IndustriALL Global Union and French metal affiliates of FTM-CGT, FGMM-CFDT, CFE-CGC Métallurgie and FO Métaux stage a joint protest in front of the building where the World Works Committee of Renault takes place.

On 28 June about 40 unionists gathered to protest the anti-union policies of the Nissan management at its biggest US factory in Canton, Mississippi. IndustriALL affiliate the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) organized an action for Canton labour and community activists seeking solidarity support in their organizing drive at Nissan.

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Turkey: IndustriALL mourns and condemns slaughter at Istanbul airport

After the murderous attacks on 10 October 2015, 17 February, 18 March and 19 March 2016, another massacre through suicide bombers with guns happened on 28 June in Turkey. This time the target was Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, one of the leading hubs. So far, 41 innocent people have been killed, while 239 are reported to be injured.

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IndustriALL affiliates act in support of Korean union leader

Some 64 IndustriALL Global Union affiliates from all regions of the world have sent protest letters to the President of South Korea condemning the criminal charges brought against the leader of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), Han Sang-gyun.

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IndustriALL condemns assassination of union leader in Guatemala

The Guatemalan trade union leader, Brenda Marleni Estrada Tambiento, died after being hit by five bullets. IndustriALL condemns the killing and calls on the government to intervene to stop the persecution of trade unions and social movements in the country.

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Brexit vote shows another world is needed

On 23 June 2016, the people of the UK voted by a narrow majority to leave the European Union, called “Brexit". While unions fight to defend workers’ rights, world leaders, particularly in Europe, must hear the message that the system is not working.

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5th July 2016, 15:00

UN agency engaged in union-busting - protest now

According to its website, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) "is the global forum for intellectual property services, policy, information and cooperation" and is "a self-funding agency of the United Nations, with 188 member states."

WIPO is also increasingly becoming known for its union-busting activities.

Two years ago, I wrote to ask for your support when WIPO's Director General Francis Gurry sacked the Staff Council President, Moncef Kateb, as he was about to reveal damaging information about fraud, wrongdoing, mismanagement and theft of staff DNA.

We sent over 6,000 messages, but Francis Gurry wasn't listening.

And now he's ramped up WIPO's union-busting activity. He's trying to close down the Staff Council entirely and replace it with a new compliant, management-friendly model.

Gurry is currently preparing illegal elections in order to dislodge the current duly elected Staff Council which is too critical for his liking.

This will leave WIPO staff deprived of the last independent voice that is prepared to expose bad practices and abuse of power in the organization.

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7th July 2016, 18:34

Leading Australian brewer prepares for mega-merger with union-busting and dismissals

Vicious union-busting at leading Australian brewer

Carlton United Breweries, maker of Australia's most popular beers, has sacked 54 union machine maintenance workers at its Melbourne brewery ahead of the impending merger between Carlton United's parent company SABMiller and AB InBev. The workers, members of the IUF-affiliated AMWU and the Electrical Trade Union ETU, were told their jobs would be contracted out but they could return to work as employees of the subcontractor - with a 65% pay cut! CLICK HERE TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE COMPANY! (http://iuf.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=bfccd9239b&e=090f0b0646)

The unions are contesting the dismissals and demanding reinstatement and respect for existing agreements, with the support of the production workers at the plant represented by the IUF affiliate United Voice.

AMWU Assistant State Secretary Craig Kelly denounced the dismissals as calculated union-busting, planned in advance as the company stockpiled supplies to pubs and big retailers. Prior to the dismissals, the company was working the maintenance crews over 60 hours per week but refused to hire new workers.

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As AB InBev, the world's largest brewer, moves to clear the remaining regulatory obstacles to its USD 108 billion acquisition of rival brewer SABMiller, workers are already feeling the notorious cost-cutting which drives AB InBev owners 3G Capital. 3G built a Brazilian brewery company into a global giant through continuous cost-cutting and aggressive acquisitions. Now 3G threatens to extend its destructive model - the mere prospect of a 3G acquisition generates job cuts.

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9th July 2016, 18:56

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9th July 2016, 19:48

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Chinese Walmart workers engage in wildcat strikes

By Linda Tenenbaum
8 July 2016

A group of Walmart workers in China has embarked on a series of co-ordinated wildcat strikes across the country against oppressive new working conditions.

The strike began last Friday in a chain store in the southern city of Nanchang, in Jiangxi Province, against attempts by the company to impose a new system allowing managers to schedule an unlimited number of hours per day, totalling up to 174 hours per month (an average of just over 40 per week), with no overtime pay.

By Monday, the action spread to a second Nanchang store, as well as to others in Chengdu in the southwest, some 1,500 km away, and Harbin in China’s northeast. The stores nevertheless remain open, with Walmart bringing in supplementary labour from other sites.

The strike has been organised by the Walmart Chinese Workers Association (WCWA), an unofficial union formed by several Walmart employees over the past two years. In a message of solidarity to Walmart workers in the United States, the WCWA published an open letter on its blog, declaring: “We have reason to believe that your conditions today will be ours tomorrow.”

Walmart opened its first store in China in 1996 and now has 433 retail outlets around the country. In mid-May, it reportedly pressured workers to sign onto a new flexible working hours agreement. Already angered by years of collaboration between the company and the Chinese government-backed union, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the workers responded with petitions and protests during the next six weeks, culminating in demonstrations inside Walmart stores.

Signs taped on workers’ backs read: “Walmart workers rise up against deception, determined to defend rights.” A striker at the Chengdu store carried a placard reading: “We support Walmart workers in the US for the Fight for 15,” in a reference to a campaign in the US for a minimum wage of $15 per hour.

The WCWA has used the WeChat mobile messaging platform to communicate with and mobilise Walmart’s workforce. While the majority of the 100,000-strong Walmart workforce has not, as yet, participated in the strike, more than 40 WCWA WeChat groups have sprung up. These have around 20,000 members, or 20 percent of Walmart’s Chinese employees, despite continuing reported threats to staff from management.

The new scheduling means shifts could last as long as 11 or 12 hours a day, ending the regular 40-hour week for full-time workers. For the increasing number of part-time workers, the instability associated with “flexible hours” will make it difficult to maintain a second job. At the same time, the rapid rise in inflation over the past decade, which has seen real wages plummet, has left many employees earning little more than the local minimum wage, and no compensation for the added burden of irregular hours.

Up until now, strikes in China, while escalating in number, have been concentrated in individual workplaces and locations. The rapid spread of the Walmart strike, along with the determination of the workers to reach out to their national and international co-workers, highlights the increasingly explosive social tensions building up throughout the country as the economy stagnates and millions of workers face unemployment and desperate poverty.

Today’s Financial Times commented: “The strike has realised the Communist party’s fear of co-ordinated cross-country labour unrest just as China prepares to lay off millions of workers as a result of the industrial slowdown. The number of worker disputes in the country has soared in recent years, doubling from 2014 to reach 2,774 protests in 2015, according to China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based workers’ rights organisation.”

The FT quotes Anita Chan, professor of sociology at the Australian National University, who said: “It is unprecedented for workers to organise this way. Most strikes are in one workplace. This is different—Walmart has many stores in China and uses the same management methods in all the stores. So these workers understand everyone’s situation: they are all the same.”

These comments underscore the significance of the Walmart struggle and the growing restiveness throughout the country. In February, a week-long strike by several hundred stainless steel workers in Guangzhou, southern China closed a factory of 2,000 workers after the ACFTU agreed to significant reductions in workers’ pay. Despite the fact that riot police were called in and the strike was declared illegal, the company eventually agreed to back off and abandon the new pay system.

In April, police in China’s northeastern province of Heilongjiang arrested more than 30 mineworkers who had led large protests the previous month over unpaid wages, highlighting the Chinese Communist Party leadership’s concerns over growing social unrest. Once again, the protests only ended when the company involved agreed to pay the miners two months’ pay.

According to “Labor Notes” a US-based pro-trade union web site, the Walmart Chinese Workers Association has written an open letter to Walmart China and the ACFTU demanding that the company abandon the new scheduling system, stop interfering with union elections and end its harassment of elected union representatives. It also insists that the union representatives actually represent the workers’ interests.

One of the Walmart workers, quoted on the site, said: “Since the union election last year, I communicated a lot with the ACFTU as a Walmart worker, explaining the situation to them. But it did not have much effect.

“ACFTU told me that the local unions should take the lead. But it is precisely because local unions are not helping us that we seek help from the ACFTU’s national office. ACFTU always tells us it is investigating and considering, but [there is] no satisfactory outcome.”

The worker’s comments indicate the frustration and anger of the Walmart workers with the company, and with the union that has served as its loyal agent. But while the political character of the WCWA leadership is not yet clear, the comments also point to the political dangers and challenges that confront, not only the Walmart workers, but the Chinese working class as whole.

Neither the ACFTU nor the Chinese government can be pressured or reformed. As the Walmart workers themselves are beginning to recognise, the Chinese working class can advance only through the development of independent organs of struggle, in collaboration with its international counterparts—the workers in the US, across Asia, Europe and the world—in a political struggle against the entire CCP regime, which functions as a cheap labour enforcer for global capital.

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15th July 2016, 16:49

[email protected] #201 - Turkey: angry coal miners protest against privatization

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Turkey: angry coal miners protest against privatization

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Thousands of miners, politicians, NGOs and communities demonstrated against government attempts to privatize and close hard coal pits in the Zonguldak region in Turkey today.

The rally was organized by IndustriALL Global Union’s affiliate, the General Mineworkers’ Union (Genel Maden-Is), which represents hard coal miners in the region.

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1,700 jobs under threat at South Africa gold mine

IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), says it is determined to fight the retrenchment 1,702 jobs at the Cooke 4 gold and uranium mine in South Africa.

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As abuses continue, so does Rio Tinto campaign

Dialogue between IndustriALL Global Union affiliates and Rio Tinto about establishing agreed global labour principles and structures for enforcing those principles continues, following a management reorganization at the company.

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Finnish company PKC ignores court ruling and fails to reinstate miners in Mexico

“Miners speak up against this new injustice! We give our complete support to the workers at Arneses y Accesorios,” announced IndustriALL Mexican affiliate Los Mineros.

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Ukraine: 50,000 rally against utility tariffs increase

Over 50,000 trade union members and workers from all over Ukraine rallied in Kiev on 6 July protesting against the sharp increase in utility tariffs.

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Vicious union-busting at leading Australian brewer

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The International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) has just launched a major online campaign focussing on union-busting in Australia (http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=d1e8933003&e=4e93ef2fad). It begins with these words:

Carlton United Breweries, maker of Australia's most popular beers, has sacked 54 union machine maintenance workers at its Melbourne brewery ahead of the impending merger between Carlton United's parent company SABMiller and AB InBev. The workers, members of the IUF-affiliated AMWU and the Electrical Trades Union ETU, were told their jobs would be contracted out but they could return to work as employees of the subcontractor - with a 65% pay cut!

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18th July 2016, 19:23

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Australian Parmalat/Lactalis workers beat lockout to win important gains in new agreement

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Members of Australia's National Union of Workers (NUW) at Australia's Longwarry Food Park, owned by the Parmalat subsidiary of French dairy giant Lactalis, voted to approve a new agreement on July 15 after a successful fightback against an 11-day lockout. Workers responded to the management show of force by protesting around the clock and showing complete solidarity at the factory gate.
Lactalis closed the site and locked out the workforce after the union gave management 3 days' notice of a ban on overtime and paperwork in their pursuit of a new collective agreement to bring Longwarry workers' pay and benefits in line with other Parmalat workers in Victoria state.
The new agreement brings, among other improvements, a 9.6% pay increase over 3 years and a pathway to permanent jobs for contract workers, one of the union's key demands.

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AFP: Demand fair terms for freelance photographers

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In times like these we rely upon journalists -- including photographers -- to keep us informed about fast-breaking events like the terrorist attack in Nice or the coup attempt in Turkey. We know that journalists often risk their lives to bring us these stories.

According to the International Federation of Journalists, French-owned multinational media group Agence France Presse (AFP). is imposing rights-grabbing new contracts on freelance photographers working in a number of countries outside of France, where photographers benefit from being covered by a collective agreement.

The company aims to take away photographers' copyright in return for no additional payment. The contract requires photographers to sign a global, irrevocable, perpetual licence to allow the company to use their photos and videos on any medium, in any language, in any form including in any future products. This is completely unacceptable.

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18th July 2016, 23:03

[LaborTech] U.S. and Chinese labor groups collaborated before China Wal-Mart strikes on Skype & plan to use social media

U.S. and Chinese labor groups collaborated before China Wal-Mart strikes on Skype & plan to use social media
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Exclusive: U.S. and Chinese labor groups collaborated before China Wal-Mart strikes
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OUR Walmart, the American worker group, has taken the unusual step of collaborating with a group of Chinese Wal-Mart workers trying to fight work schedule changes and low wages.

OUR Walmart and the Wal-Mart Chinese Workers Association (WCWA) discussed strategy for recent strikes in China on a Skype call last month using a translator, both groups told Reuters.

"They asked for our support," said Cantare Davunt, OUR Wal-Mart's leader from Minnesota, who participated in the Skype call.

The U.S. organization is keen to maintain the relationship with the WCWA and believes such partnerships can boost the clout of the retailer’s global workforce.

"We can use this to collectively press Wal-Mart on issues," said Dan Schlademan, co-director of OUR Walmart.

Wal-Mart declined to comment on the collaboration among worker groups in both countries, though the company did address the scheduling dispute in China.

OUR Wal-Mart - which last year split from the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) over strategic direction - says it has the support of more than 100,000 Wal-Mart workers. The retailer employs 1.5 million workers in the U.S. and 2.3 million worldwide.

The U.S. and China groups are discussing joint strategies to address challenges that workers in both countries face, including work schedule changes, Schlademan said.

Such international collaborations are rare, especially in China, said Nelson Lichtenstein, director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at the University of California in Santa Barbara.

"Large American unions have supported labor movements in a few parts of the world over the years but not in China, so this is out of the ordinary," he said.

Many U.S. workers and union advocates have traditionally viewed workers in other nations as competition for jobs, labor experts said.

The only legal labor organization in China is the state-backed All-China Federation of Trade Unions, which is widely considered an arm of the ruling Communist Party. Most strikes, including those at Wal-Mart, have happened without AFCTU involvement.

Neither OUR Walmart nor Chinese workers' groups have much leverage to force changes at the behemoth retailer. The U.S. group has no collective bargaining rights, and it offers workers free, voluntary memberships.

OUR Wal-Mart cites a recent success in helping to push Wal-Mart last year to raise the minimum wage $10-an-hour. But that change came amid a nationwide push by some major cities, politicians and labor unions for broad minimum wage hikes.

FIGHT OVER 'FLEXIBLE' SCHEDULING

There are hundreds of strikes around China every year. China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based labor rights groups, tracked 6,901 strikes in China from January 2011 until now, 349 of which were at foreign-owned companies.

Such was the case when workers organized strikes in July at four stores in Nanchang, Chengdu and Harbin, involving about up to 60 employees at each location, said Zhang Liya, a Wal-Mart employee from the southern city of Shenzhen who set up and manages the WCWA's online chat groups.

The strikes came in response to Wal-Mart's introduction of a new work hours scheduling system for Chinese employees that they WCWA worried would cut overtime payments for employees.

Under the new system, store managers are permitted to allocate workers any number of hours per day, as long as each worker’s total adds up to 174 hours per month. Workers scheduled for more than 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week would not be paid overtime, at time-and-a-half rates, as long as they are given fewer hours in the rest of the month, according to OUR Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart spokeswoman Jo Newbould Warner said workers can choose not to participate in the new scheduling system, which said is part of broad changes that also include subsidized meals at work and the launch of a retail university that would provide training to store managers and frontline workers.

"Associates who prefer not to work a flexible schedule can retain their original shifts, and those who elect to be part of the flexible working schedule will have the opportunity to work more or less shifts depending on their preference," Warner said.

Last week, Warner had told Reuters that the Chinese system is unique to that market. However, Wal-Mart plans to launch a new, but different, working hours system in the U.S. later this year.

The strikes ended in the first week of July when Wal-Mart store managers told striking workers they would have to consider their issues and respond within a week, two workers who had been on strike at different stores said.

The workers, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the company did not respond to their issues before that deadline passed. Workers decided not to go back on strike, they said, because many doubted the job action would provoke any change from Wal-Mart, the workers said.

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On June 20, the Chinese and American teams talked by Skype through a translator provided by the WCWA, OUR Wal-Mart’s Davunt and the WCWA told Reuters. For nearly an hour, they discussed how to engage management in discussions, along and successful strike strategies that American workers in other industries have employed.

They also agreed to support each other's actions, have follow-up calls and link via social media. The two groups have posted pictures of workers in both countries holding placards with solidarity messages on Facebook, Davunt said.

OUR Walmart plans to talk again to the WCWA after the strikes and the two groups want to meet in person, said Schlademan.

"With these kind of relationships, getting face-to-face is always an important part of it,” Schlademan said.

(Additional reporting by John Ruwitch in China; Editing by Jo Winterbottom and Brian Thevenot)

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25th July 2016, 18:29

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Mass dismissal of fast food workers in the fight for health care in Indonesia

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On July 20 the national hotel and restaurant workers' federation, FSPM, held a mass action in Jakarta to demand the reinstatement of 83 union members who were terminated by one of the country's leading fast food chains, PT Champ Resto Indonesia, for protesting against the lack of health coverage that contributed to the death of a new-born baby.

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Following an 11 day strike, IUF affiliate Tekgida-Is signed a collective bargaining agreement with Nestlé to apply at its multi-product site at Karacabey in the province of Bursa, Turkey.

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26th July 2016, 16:53

SABMiller's assault on rights moves to India

Union-busting escalates at SABMiller India following attack on rights in Australia

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Union-busting escalates at SABMiller India following attack on rights in Australia

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Whilst PepsiCo workers elsewhere in Asia are struggling to exercise their basic rights, on July 23 the new PepsiCo Workers' Union in Pakistan took a step forward when it was officially granted collective bargaining status by government authorities.

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28th July 2016, 18:11

Malaysia: SFI must stop stalling and recognize union now

Members of the Sabah Timber Industries Employees Union (STIEU) working at one of Malaysia's largest timber companies, Sabah Forest Industries (SFI), have struggled for decades to have their union recognised.

On 3 March last year the Malaysian Minister of Human Resources demanded SFI recognise the union, a decision that the Sabah High Court affirmed on 27th June 2016 by dismissing a recent judicial review of that decision.

However the SFI is gearing up to appeal the Sabah Judicial Review to a higher court rather than allowing workers to participate in secret ballot elections.

The company would rather spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for court litigation which is obviously its comfort zone.

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The union at the SABMiller Sonepat brewery in the state of Haryana, India has been organizing mass protest actions in response to the harassment and intimidation of trade union leaders and members and management's refusal to respect collective bargaining rights. The attack on rights at SABMiller India follows the company's union-busting at SABMiller-owned Carlton United Breweries in Australia ahead of the impending merger between AB InBev and SABMiller, which would create the world's largest transnational brewing company.

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28th July 2016, 18:50

[email protected] #203 - Victory at last for Bata workers in Mexico

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Victory at last for Bata workers in Mexico

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IndustriALL Global Union is celebrating the end of a five-year conflict as the Sandak-Bata workers’ union has finally reached an acceptable agreement with Calzado Sandak, a Mexican subsidiary of the Swiss-headquartered multinational shoe company, Bata.

After international pressure from IndustriALL and Swiss affiliate, UNIA, a meeting was convened on 30 June in Mexico between the Sandak-Bata union, SUTCS, and Tim Jude, the international Vice President of Bata, to negotiate a fair solution for the 59 workers who continued to demand their rights after Bata closed their plant in Tlaxcala, Mexico in 2012, dismissing 450 workers.

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The Korean Metal Workers' Union has called a general strike across the sector in support of a dispute at Hyundai.

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IndustriALL affiliate the Free Trade Zone and General Services Employees Union signed an important collective bargaining agreement with Trelleborg Wheel Systems Lanka.

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Workers recount impact of outsourcing in Brazil

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8th September 2016, 14:59

Ali Enterprises Fire: 4 Years Without Help

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This weekend will mark the fourth anniversary of the deadliest fire in the history of the global garment industry.

Hundreds of people were working inside the four-story Ali Enterprises factory in Karachi, Pakistan, when the fire started. Barred windows and blocked staircases prevented their escape. All told, 260 workers were killed in the blaze.

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"When my children knew that their father died in a factory fire, they are afraid to work in any factory... but I don't have enough money to afford their education," said Shahida Parveen, the widow of Muhammad Akmal, who worked at Ali Enterprises. Some of the injured workers will never work again due to the serious injuries they sustained as a resut of jumping from second or third floor windows to save their lives. Many families lost their main bread-winner and are in dire need of long-term compensation.

After multiple years of active campaigning, apparel companies finally delivered on the minimum compensation needed for the victims of the Tazreen fire and the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh. But unfortunately the workers and families affected by the Ali Enterprises fire in Pakistan were nearly forgotten by industry stakeholders amidst these other horrific tragedies. On this fourth anniversary please join us in remembering and in standing up for corporate accountability.

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8th September 2016, 15:04

Great news: Jailed Colombian trade unionist Miguel Beltrán is now free

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Six months ago, I wrote to ask for your support in the fight to free Dr Miguel Ángel Beltrán, a Colombian academic and member of the higher education union ASPU.

Miguel was arrested on charges of rebellion in July 2015 and unjustly sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment in a high security prison in Bogota.

When I wrote to you, he had just been on hunger strike.

Today, thanks to a decision of the Colombian Supreme Court, Miguel is free.

The support of 9,377 LabourStart readers made a difference. We were able to work together with the Education International and Justice for Colombia and the result is the best one possible.

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8th September 2016, 15:14

Tell PepsiCo to stop violating trade union rights in Pakistan!

PepsiCo responds to formation of new union in Pakistan by attacking rights!

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PepsiCo management at the company's Frito-Lay plant in Lahore, Pakistan has responded to the formation and official registration of a trade union with 650 members by harassing and transferring union officers and seeking to violate the union's collective bargaining rights by creating a bogus union. Workers initially formed a union in response to the massive abuse of precarious employment through labour contractors, which denies permanent employment to workers who have worked for years at the plant.

Since the PepsiCo Workers' Union was registered and officially granted collective bargaining rights, union officers have been targeted for disciplinary procedures on false charges and the union president has been transferred out of the plant to prevent contact with members. The company has registered a fake national union claiming to represent workers at two different sites in order to undercut the Lahore workers' demand for a negotiated collective agreement.

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9th September 2016, 19:33

[email protected] #209 - IndustriALL condemns the coup in Brazil

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IndustriALL Global Union condemns the coup against democracy in Brazil on 31 August, when the Brazilian Senate removed President Dilma Rousseff from office without presenting evidence that she has committed a crime and ignored people’s support for her.

“We condemn the coup in Brazil, which will lead to the dismantling of national and regional institutions created for the benefit of the people and the development of nations,” said Jorge Almeida, IndustriALL Regional Secretary.

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Garment and footwear unions in Cambodia have agreed to demand US$179.60 as the monthly minimum wage for 2017, during a weekend of talks organized by IndustriALL Global Union, FES and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity.

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Unity in action: 100 million Indian workers take strike action

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10th September 2016, 14:55

We took your signature to Bangkok!

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Dear Chris, At the beginning of September, with the help of our partners in Bangkok, we delivered over 45,000 of your names from our ‘Fight slavery in the Thai chicken industry’ campaign

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Dear Chris,

At the beginning of September, with the help of our partners in Bangkok, we delivered over 45,000 of your names from our ‘Fight slavery in the Thai chicken industry’ campaign to the Thai Broiler Processing Exporters Association (TBA).[1]

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The 14 Myanmar workers who fled severe labour exploitation on a chicken farm supplying food giant Betagro, are still living in the offices of our partner, the Migrant Workers Rights Network (MWRN). The workers are desperate to collect their owed compensation following their escape from the farm back in June.

Sadly, despite official orders from the Thai Labour Ministry for the workers’ employer to pay 1.7 million Thai Baht in compensation, which is much less than the workers claim they are owed, the employer is refusing to pay anything to the workers. Alongside Stop The Traffik Australia and MWRN, a number of the Myanmar workers gathered to protest against Betagro by delivering your signature to the TBA.[2]

Human rights activist Andy Hall, who attended the hand-in, had this to say, “the workers from the chicken farm felt incredibly supported in this domestic action to have such widespread international backing. The massive number of petition signatures sent a clear message to Betagro.”

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The TBA promised to donate 3,000 Thai Baht (85 USD) in emergency aid to each of the workers. Betagro has also offered some financial assistance on humanitarian grounds, which the workers are yet to receive. However, in response to our pressure, we're pleased that Betagro and other major chicken exporters have now committed to take further decisive action to ensure modern slavery is not in their supply chains.

Lawyers provided by MWRN made a new official claim for compensation following the petition delivery. We will closely monitor its progress through the legal system, and will continue to look out for opportunities to apply public pressure.

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11th September 2016, 14:03

Victory. Then Tragedy.

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Dear Chris,

This just in: KiK has finally agreed to pay a total of $5.9 million to the workers and families affected by the horrific Ali E (https://laborrights.z2systems.com/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=laborrights&emailId=e3618a20c8bf108f12bf81fe9a90e628em2502934e 36&secureId=OF4U7VVi3j8Doaa2PfomyA%3D%3D&linkId=10009&targetUrl=https://cleanclothes.org/news/press-releases/2016/09/10/press-release-on-ali-enterprises)nterprises factory fire in Pakistan!

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Thank you to everyone who helped keep the memory of the tragedy alive and who stood with us in campaigning for full and fair compensation for the injured workers and the families of the 260 workers killed in the blaze. If you had signed up for the Clean Clothes Campaign's Thunderclap social media action that we announced earlier in the week, thanks so much for showing your support. The Thunderclap action scheduled to go live today has been cancelled given that KiK agreed to compensation in the nick of time.

As I was starting to write this email yesterday, I received news of South Asia's latest industrial disaster: the Tampaco Foils factory fire (https://laborrights.z2systems.com/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=laborrights&emailId=e3618a20c8bf108f12bf81fe9a90e628em2502934e 36&secureId=OF4U7VVi3j8Doaa2PfomyA%3D%3D&linkId=10008&targetUrl=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/world/asia/boiler-explosion-at-bangladesh-factory-kills-at-least-23.html). At least 20 workers have already been confirmed dead and the death toll may rise.

Tampaco Foils made snack-food packaging for Nestlé and cigarette packs for British American Tobacco. In our joint statement (https://laborrights.z2systems.com/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=laborrights&emailId=e3618a20c8bf108f12bf81fe9a90e628em2502934e 36&secureId=OF4U7VVi3j8Doaa2PfomyA%3D%3D&linkId=9999&targetUrl=http://laborrights.org/tampaco10916) with the Worker Rights Consortium, the Clean Clothes Campaign, and the Maquila Solidarity Network, we raise critical questions for Nestlé and BAT. We note that while there has been major progress in improving fire and building safety in garment factories in Bangladesh, especially at the 1,600 factories covered by the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, none of the safety initiatives in the garment sector, including the Accord, cover the issue of boiler safety. Accord standards concerning fire safety address the spread of a fire caused by a boiler explosion, but they do not address the prevention of such explosions – and, in an explosion the size of the one we have just witnessed at Tampaco Foils, limiting the spread of fire will not be enough to protect life and limb. This is a major issue that the Accord, all other building safety initiatives in Bangladesh, and the Bangladesh government must address.

Please stay tuned for further updates on actions you can take to help us continue pressure on global brands to reform so we can prevent more tragedies like Tampaco Foils and Ali Enterprises! Your support (https://laborrights.z2systems.com/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=laborrights&emailId=e3618a20c8bf108f12bf81fe9a90e628em2502934e 36&secureId=OF4U7VVi3j8Doaa2PfomyA%3D%3D&linkId=9997&targetUrl=http://laborrights.org/donate) for our rapid response efforts helps sustain that pressure.

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12th September 2016, 14:22

Fight against vicious union-busting at leading Australian brewer continues!

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Thousands of union members and supporters marched through the center of Melbourne, Australia on September 8 in support of union members at Carlton United Breweries whose employment conditions came under brutal attack when they were told their pay would be cut by 65% under the terms of a new sub-contracting arrangement. The unions rejected the company's diktat and have maintained round-the-clock protests at the plant.

The IUF Executive Committee, which met in Geneva September 7-8, sent a message of solidarity and support to the marchers and their unions.

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13th September 2016, 15:01

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Dear Chris,

Yesterday, the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan began as it does every year, with ordinary citizens forced to leave their lives to pick cotton 10 hours a day. For the past 25 years, Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov enforced this practice. His death earlier this month could mean many things for the future of Uzbekistan, including an opportunity to put a stop to the state-sponsored system of forced labor.

In recent years, under pressure from the Cotton Campaign, the Karimov regime adopted a plan to end child labor and showed signs of improving work and employment conditions. Unfortunately, talk of reforms coincided with greater abuses of Uzbek human rights defenders and now reports already show that government officials are forcibly mobilizing public employees from the healthcare and education sectors, as well as university students, farmers and business owners to fulfill harvest quotas.

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14th September 2016, 15:39

IUF News

Certifying destruction at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

Posted: 14 Sep 2016 02:05 AM PDT

Labour and environmental rights defenders have long criticized the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the organization claiming to promote sustainable palm oil production, for its loose standards for certifying producers in an industry marked by widespread human rights violations and environmental destruction. Now a major palm oil producer linked to extensive deforestation, the Malaysia-based IOI Group, has sued the RSPO to regain its revoked accreditation - and apparently won.

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14th September 2016, 15:47

Reports from Europe / next Labor Beat, starts Sept. 15, CAN TV Channel 19

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Labor Beat occasionally showcases an outside labor-oriented video producer. Here are 4 recent segments produced by Reel News in London, UK. Chicago television audiences gets precious few glimpses of labor and activist news in Europe, so we present the following:

1. Workers in UK successful protest to get minimum pay at Fawley oil refinery;
2. Protest in Spain for release of jailed trade unionist Andres Bodalo;
3. Museum workers in Wales conduct successful strike;
4. Big march in London supporting Kurds

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17th September 2016, 15:09

[email protected] #210 - Compensation arrangement reached for Pakistan factory fire victims

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Landmark compensation arrangement reached on 4th anniversary of deadly Pakistan factory fire

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After four years of campaigning and months of negotiations, an agreement has been reached to pay compensation in excess of US$5 million to the survivors and families of workers killed in Pakistan’s worst industrial accident.

On 11 September 2012, more than 250 workers lost their lives and over 50 were injured in a fire at the Ali Enterprises garment factory in Karachi. Workers burnt to death trapped behind barred windows and locked doors. Others jumped for their lives from the upper floors, sustaining permanent disabilities.

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A strike at the Anglo American’s coal mine in Queensland, Australia has entered its fourth week, as the company refuses to negotiate in good faith with workers. The situation has escalated as the mining giant attempts to bring in strike-breakers to undermine the workforce even though the strike is legal.

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Metalworkers in Brazil launch campaign for jobs and rights

15,000 members from the Curitiba Metalworkers’ Union (SMC) in Brazil demonstrated at Volvo, CNH, Bosch, WHB Correo and Renault factories on 5 September, launching a national campaign to defend their rights and call for more jobs and economic recovery.

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19th September 2016, 14:23

[LaborTech] Labour Unionism In The Age Of The ‘Gig’ Economy

Labour Unionism In The Age Of The ‘Gig’ Economy
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Gregor Gall
Professor of industrial relations at the University of Bradford
As the Trades Union Congress (TUC) meets in Brighton this week for its 148th annual gathering, it faces in one way or another essentially the same challenge that it has done since it was first founded. Jobs, work and employment take place as ever under capitalism but capitalism is constantly re-configuring the way jobs, work and employment are organised.

The ‘gig’ - or ‘on demand’ - economy is now the most obvious example of this and part of how the proletariat with regular, secure full-time employment has increasingly been changed into a precariat dependent upon low paid, insecure and irregular work.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in delivery companies in London using couriers and drivers to ferry legal documents and meals around the capital’s streets. These workers are not even offered ‘zero hour contracts’ because these are not employed by the companies they carry out the work for. Instead, they are self-employed ‘independent contractors’. With self-employment, the workers are not eligible for sick pay, holiday pay and have to pay their own National Insurance. They also have to pay for their own means of transport and the cost of running this as well as their means of communication (like mobile phones). Such self-employed workers are not guaranteed a minimum level of work or a minimum level of earnings.

It has been a fledgling, tiny non-TUC union that has been setting the pace in standing up to this new form of labour market exploitation. Before the Deliveroo strike hit the headlines last month, the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) had quietly been winning higher and fairer payments at a series of courier companies in London, whether that be Mach1, eCourier or City Sprint, through a series of flashmob actions and social media campaigns. The union was set up as a split from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or ‘Wobblies’ in 2012.

For a union with only 1,000 members, the action at Deliveroo became the icing on its cake because it showed what a bold and assertive minnow of a union could do in contrast to more conservative, longstanding and bigger counterparts of the TUC.

‘Gig’ economy workers are believed to be atomised from each other as they work alone so that they are difficult to organise. They are also in competition with each other for work so that any compulsion to band together is undermined. Yet at Deliveroo the introduction of a new payment structure showed how a collective grievance could be turned into a springboard to successful collective action.

The new structure increased the pay per delivery item but removed the hourly guaranteed earnings. Couriers saw this as an attempt to reduce their income. After six days of increasingly well reported and energetic protests outside the company’s London headquarters, Deliveroo agreed to only introduce the new payment structure in a limited number of pilot areas and maintain the existing payment structure. The success of this collective action then inspired couriers a week later at UberEATS in London to protest in a similar fashion when the company began to remove its bonus system of payments.

The couriers applied pressure upon Deliveroo in the form of damage to its brand and reputation in the eyes of customers and investors through their social media activities. But it was been the old-fashioned nature of the collective action to halt and disrupt the operations of the business that was critical to explaining the success. Specifically, the Deliveroo couriers were able to take collectively advantage of the company’s use of a ‘just-in-time’ system of operations.

Under this system, the good or service - and its delivery - is required immediately with their being no slack in the system as a result of stockpiles. In the case of Deliveroo, it was couriers not working in the early evenings when food deliveries from restaurants are at their peak that was the critical juncture.

Such collective actions are traditionally called ‘wildcats’ given there is no notice given to the employer of the strike. And, under current legislation, there is no need to have a ballot for action or give notice because, technically, these workers are not employees and so are unable to strike. All they can do is to withdraw their willingness to provide contracted services.

So whilst there is mileage in social media campaigns and protests (as practiced by the IWGB as well as the much bigger and older Unite and the GMB unions) as well as in changing employment law by taking cases to Employment Tribunals (as again the IWGB, Unite and the GMB are doing), only the IWGB has stuck its neck out to make the seemingly impossible possible - mobilising self-employed workers scarred by insecurity and vulnerability to fight for their rights in militant collective action.

This example should be well studied at the TUC this week because it potentially holds some vital lessons on how and why the fortunes of organised labour could be revitalised in the neo-liberal economy.

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20th September 2016, 13:48

IUF News

Death toll rises in Bangladesh fire at factory supplying packaging to consumer multinationals

Posted: 19 Sep 2016 05:54 AM PDT

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At least 34 people are so far known to have been killed in the September 10 explosion and fire at the Tampaco Foils factory near Dhaka in Bangladesh. The factory produced packaging for local and multinational companies, including British American Tobacco and Nestlé - companies which will now need to again examine how they monitor and enforce their supplier codes and how they plan to meet their clear obligations as customers of this factory.

SENTRO union organizer assassinated in the Philippines

Posted: 19 Sep 2016 03:02 AM PDT

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The IUF-affiliated SENTRO has called on the government of the Philippines to swiftly investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators of the September 17 assassination of Orlando Abangan, a union and community organizer who was shot dead outside his home in Cebu. Abangan, who had assisted SENTRO in organizing a union of power industry workers in Cebu and was active in organizing informal workers and persons with disabilities, was also an outspoken critic of the extrajudicial killings which have accompanied the government's 'war on drugs'.

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21st September 2016, 14:27

Breaking News: Human Rights Defender Andy Hall Found Guilty

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I’m writing to you with a heavy heart today. Yesterday morning, human rights defender Andy Hall was declared guilty of criminal defamation and computer crimes by a Thai court. Andy, a UK citizen, helped conduct research at a Thai pineapple export company called Natural Fruit for a report published by the Finnish NGO Finnwatch. The report documented serious human rights violations in one of Natural Fruit’s factories that included child labor, confiscation of identity documents such as passports and working permits, harassment, and physical abuse. Rather than respond to Finnwatch’s reporting and improve working conditions, the Thai government sought to intimidate and silence Andy - and by extension, other human rights defenders - with malicious prosecution. He was sentenced to a three year suspended jail term, and fined 150,000 Thai baht.

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But this judgement is only the beginning. Unless we can successfully support Andy in appealing this conviction, he will be saddled with a criminal record for the rest of his life. Perhaps even more startling is the fact that Natural Fruit itself is pursuing a civil case against Andy, seeking more than $11 million dollars in “damages”. Another corporation he has researched is considering lawsuits against him as well. This unjust conviction demonstrates that the Thai government will protect corporations over individuals, and empowers corporations to violate human rights with impunity. We must work together globally and in solidarity to free Andy from an unjust criminal record and to ensure that freedom of expression is protected in Thailand.

It’s no coincidence that Andy has bravely continued his work with migrant workers in Thailand during this four year long trial, only to find himself ultimately convicted on trumped up charges. This type of repression is clearly intended to silence the voices of the migrant workers in Thailand with whom Andy works extensively.

It’s a sad day for free expression, and the ultimate outcome will impact other human rights defenders and whistleblowers in Thailand and across the world. It’s time to come together to say we will not permit transparent supply chain research to be silenced. We will not allow Andy Hall to be unjustly convicted. We will not allow migrant workers in Thailand to continue to live in fear of speaking out about their working conditions.

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22nd September 2016, 15:09

IUF News

IUF Bangladesh affiliate rallies to demand justice for victims of factory fire disaster

Posted: 21 Sep 2016 06:48 AM PDT

The IUF-affiliated Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF) organized a mass rally and human chain in Gazipur near the capital Dhaka on September 21 to demand the arrest of the owner of the Tampaco Foils Factory and proper compensation to the families of those who perished in the September 10 explosion and fire (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5133). At least 34 people are known to have perished in the explosion and blaze at the factory, which manufactured packaging materials for local and multinational companies including Nestlé and British American Tobacco (BAT).

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23rd September 2016, 15:38

[email protected] #211 - We stand with Lula!

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We stand with Lula!

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As former Brazilian president Lula da Silva is under attack and facing an unjustified trial, the international trade union movement is coming together to protest against the sham charges.

“Lula is a hero for workers around the world and a symbolic target for conservative forces who want to go back on social reform. We can not allow this attack and we stand with Lula,” says IndustriALL Global Union general secretary Jyrki Raina.

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With less than two weeks to go until the IndustriALL Global Union 2nd Congress, IndustriALL is looking forward to welcoming some 1,400 trade union leaders from over 100 countries to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 4-7 October.

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South African metalworkers win 35% wage increase

NUMSA has concluded a negotiation with car makers for a 35% wage increase over three years.

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Georgian fertilizer factory workers escalate dispute

IndustriALL Global Union’s affiliate in Georgia has begun labour dispute proceedings with fertilizer producer Azot, as the company’s management continues to avoid negotiating with trade union representatives.

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HeidelbergCement workers in Europe support Global Framework Agreement

On 13-15 September, more than 30 workers’ representatives of HeidelbergCement and former Italcementi gathered in Hockenheim, Germany.

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24th September 2016, 15:04

Take Action! Workers Denied Maternity Leave and Cheated of their Pay at Hannan Knitwear

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Dear Chris,

Today the Institute is starting a petition (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4AA/ni0YAA/t.20u/_IjdBiwcRy-oyS9QXH67dw/h0/KLcqj6mm2DNwtPZFTP391s9aIbKcBOIPC07TBhl6evqzSsxlUK W-2B-2BlCQi1rQd0s1X2lLTZ66RKTXj0nKWNFq1fK5PKpnsdpH-2FKdFoyA-2BaoJdRqCHRiwLvPn-2BJTq5aPNTXlMsmNivgKvgI1j-2F9o5hcwwyxQpSkqmcMqsjY8Ps-2BiR7b-2FeKmJ8U-2BbR5p7aF9FfH095Pdmf2vqk3cRHw7O7yw9c5QuFVlnr-2FmWnQTFCsz4ycCiQWwlaWYKkM3X7vH8J2a3zhvKMVmQXxwgoD-2B44XVXbTdxaPKgR4IQNjDQGR-2BOoE0xGSW1AaPIvl-2BcafetHWjLKFQUYvAUEcK4we5UylvtUQw1JffThZy3Ax6AYtJ jso-2BbXmJQW7JSojH8jHexTg-2BEU76BgfWqhVcIqzJk9xKGqV6s97GjK3d6A7m86cKXMbVe5zR y-2B-2BV1R2pVJW49VIoSePqHxOgCuWIHAxIqEd3PvFlN1mAUfNKZ9E-2FRKeW9C5YTY3BkUyVKTMvFCd5AuwDgJJ2Av2FOcQy4gdXXpcO pkFjhU42ZQgPyAMdilAOZxpOQXeG0xxVzIfohCHh-2FFK) in support of workers in the Hannan Knitwear factory in Bangladesh.

Hannan Knitwear workers regularly toil seven days a week, 13 hours a day. Often they are forced to work until midnight, putting in 16 hours. They are cheated on their pay. Verbal and physical abuse is common. Maternity leave and sick leave are often denied.

Please sign this message to Hannan’s international buyers demanding that they move immediately to end the violations at their contractor’s factory! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4AA/ni0YAA/t.20u/_IjdBiwcRy-oyS9QXH67dw/h1/KLcqj6mm2DNwtPZFTP391s9aIbKcBOIPC07TBhl6evqzSsxlUK W-2B-2BlCQi1rQd0s1X2lLTZ66RKTXj0nKWNFq1QUE-2FYlbHQ1I-2FrXY1T1WQAaLgkL-2F4zU-2BqHJWTl6bVB-2F0Da5cBhztvSaiTEcNiB8a9u7uVPE7A4iIceyzZqRBe2bFw7W lBbDXhGNOyW6OO7elnCIuP0fxMIejBJKXYlzFNH2BCJchsgNdi IYCvAWEeUyPJ4WF2jdwDnTvZcAAXRq4tqGEbo2pfOm7vMUpwpe 6jiNELX-2B1RkqERY1FcwQo5pbyeiZ-2BcS8alpE69dOqUjM79QQ06opQDjfg5Nxj73ovdJtLML36gTM4 lNF7xKSzNMJ1mSYoc-2BsRDRIT4-2FXFNXsissfs1uKxfHGhQRQFrqf4X-2B-2F1RiZMr3looTWXaPNsBbGgi9QJqGz9WRl6GfUQMS7AczFd-2Bkzu4l8H-2F0pxjbB06Rm4r3FGlvdpl9hzULd7DteNFh1WLuWYi1XiNF21-2B3jwOStz3bc9zT-2FKix7vjZg5FXmYOWey2b9Qoin3SA7torcPpm7tPPTPknMVpLB YiA-2Bg)

Hannan produces Esprit; the Sfera and Dustin labels (owned by Corte Ingles of Spain); Selected Homme and Jack & Jones labels (sold in the U.S. and Europe and owned by Bestseller company of Denmark).

In April, the Institute met with Hannan Knitwear workers who described violations at the factory. One of the workers we met was Kajol Rekha, then nearly six months pregnant. She had managed to hide her pregnancy so far, but feared that as soon as her bosses found out they would fire her to avoid paying her legal maternity benefits.

On April 25, Kajol Rekha was told she would “not be allowed to come back to work”—that is, she was fired. She was not paid her maternity benefits, or even her wages for the days she worked in April.

In May, the Institute wrote a letter to these brands asking that they move to assure that their contractor reduce working hours to legal levels, end the abuses and pay workers the wages and benefits they are owed. The buyers wrote back jointly saying they would investigate and act immediately.

But the abuses have continued. Work hours remain extreme, and Kajol Rekha, who had her baby in July, has received neither her pay nor her maternity leave.

This is one of the worst factories that we are working on now. Please take some strong action to end the abuses at this factory.

READ: The Institute's May memo (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4AA/ni0YAA/t.20u/_IjdBiwcRy-oyS9QXH67dw/h3/GDvMQc4aDir0zBAWM7EQS49ZXmoUac-2BtJOQrEy1-2BKYEoZnHfSdk8rBCN0Kj88fDFjXJxlT6-2BEIcvV9XtCLLU6ym-2F6ZHqnTQBmwi3j4Xg9Pozdi4GtEQiMC0nQ6as-2F0nsdh0gVlhPbtPYovT4aOkCOc8oGnUN-2BRUEPB9h7oLDvE6eZsi4Fv3NWIPaut8fxMprujDxX05NowQFH vDyRhaZn3cCTlKax4xAVFonugzCKo8vcduqJ-2B56oOkXSmLuIOZeN-2F57ljlz-2FYnLcdZPrQ4HeJMq9gQuRaj0RFJYnD-2B3hbB0O97nVMvIGZMKhuNo9Uw04h2NiZmem0UHLy0DAKAjwkm O9AiSfiCZXdjz5DFI599-2FypoSwsflib5hccY-2FH38eRRKeVuxiR3Fy2bk1cNAngQD5QF9uawyeHzwbKBWgX-2Bpy0rEmVrNQeQOklY3tyAVa1p8rJpeg1I4GU34XA5RP8ISuU5 09Wz7Je0MXSVVv445ZTMGh3nLFz5eC-2Bh6EOa5SL0dnfwn7Y6eqBdhJ55q05QH2Sxo0aEwZUczKp5Tfx-2BhZ3ZhXONSKixGdGZYqkbsy4nHaIW6lqJacAeubp4O9R8trwo paCIYd-2FdGOEnfzHCyVtL4QekVcJrv1JwMYDl-2Fw) sent to the labels describing the labor violations in Hannan.

SIGN: Add your signature and comments (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4AA/ni0YAA/t.20u/_IjdBiwcRy-oyS9QXH67dw/h4/KLcqj6mm2DNwtPZFTP391s9aIbKcBOIPC07TBhl6evqzSsxlUK W-2B-2BlCQi1rQd0s1X2lLTZ66RKTXj0nKWNFq1eE6f2pXba3IY1cbW EWe3fwRDdK9lhkglE0hcxu0f6R1KCRQseIWhZhBWCPqsidAkKz Pb5DtEyg-2F-2B9-2FmGjvo57nleXaMwUxXdj0r1mIZ9PLnGLsPcDULo84trXsBXe-2B0c1OIRO9zss4qEuc4wMcXXP-2Bi-2BF2fhIlWuIjxJbtFLCfVdyQbRQGjJUOsbMCD2JoTQ8oksC8vZ kiJmSwv4KKAoFVfSCGQld4Aw-2F7mR32DmgvH4CnhC9CFrGk9dm26lIdFNqKxrLvteg33iPHBwb WoMTwv7nWr1pB-2Bj3gF4jJiCNAsXGXKPcJXyj1ISRUkDZaPEWeWm3Vj26pbd8XA h8x5U0auZTO4uAQTApu-2FBlIcgyPhb7Qj-2BHaYUMCxhKiUq9TYJW0ad6d1RFkfwK6A1zm70x28s-2BgHE23Kwk2rz1imBG2HnybvXaFJ-2Fmw9PYRk1l1Lzo9u88DJvlHBGBKpB-2FQLmRqtFsNqpGBxajhpv9W3szV6) to the letter we are sending to the major brands producing in Hannan Knitwear.

PLEASE GIVE: Your support to the Institute (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4AA/ni0YAA/t.20u/_IjdBiwcRy-oyS9QXH67dw/h5/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBSD9p4T6xn7Ql1kXw4yNstduwFzX76l afduLpIAX-2FcVp0uWkPzn4VCsk1A4sB0YL4Q7qKzunGlB2NVTSOfE-2FrdytVzPS8sqsiwZzKt65Pd-2Ffj2JZlcblYhOYQxY8Y3FuJnHaIxM8Dgm3-2FPmlf9UyS66TIogmb8KY5ZzaYKVasmb1LmbdV9EhsjEHtfNJa Xyl0VJFTnudoe-2F6js7JQejNI2V2cUH2tbQgTQRfEwWAsL3FqUOamh0amWpwLqR LpfDgTrmn9hfhXhfGRPVEuVxZ7pjt6jrEN0JdWQ3iOoP9rRas4-2BgFZ2RwRXfXoIbFnU-2BguWrB9dO0WOIpxDZS-2FMqGGemDFcb5vRkpBneulMBzOA2KlPPAY4nMVYdvnm8154aVD oY3AMrRBsJ-2BSrZe3cb8r-2FwFbeJuWIF2-2FzgAjYOkMrchLH5ErIFmTv-2Fi24psKklWkWwyYPXIFkz-2BfXLWUeXNQpIx7LEHKxZXDC4G0zErH-2FolCqEo1HCN7qBrrFxmG1GcPLfOGcv-2FcZJfRri8ddkQ2Do-3D) will continue our research and activism to help thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh who make our clothing.

Thank you for all of your support!

In Solidarity,

Charlie Kernaghan
Director

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25th September 2016, 13:16

IUF News

Mondelez unions come together to defend union jobs

Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:31 AM PDT

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Over 40 members of IUF-affiliated trade unions representing Mondelez workers around the world marched on CEO Irene Rosenfeld's residence outside Chicago on September 21 to protest the company's systematic destruction of union employment. Most recently, the company has eliminated 600 union jobs at the Chicago Nabisco facility and announced the closure of its factory in Valladolid, Spain, with the loss of 220 jobs.

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26th September 2016, 17:15

Egypt: Free jailed shipyard workers

In late May this year, workers at the shipyard docks in Alexandria, Egypt organized a peaceful protest. Company management had refused to negotiate with them and rejected their demands.

Following their protest, the workers were summoned by the the military prosecution for interrogation. Fifteen workers presented themselves voluntarily and were surprised when they were all apprehended (except for one woman worker who was released on bail). A warrant was issued against the remaining eleven workers.

Today, the workers remain in jail as they await sentencing. Those jailed workers and their families have no incomes, while the other workers are on the run and could be jailed at any time.

The Center for Trade Union and Worker Services (CTUWS) has asked for our help to publicize this gross violation of human rights. Together we've launched an online campaign demanding the release of the jailed workers.

Please show your support:

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And please share this message with your friends, family and fellow union members.

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27th September 2016, 13:22

IUF News

Death of Korean rights activist farmer Baek Nam-gi, a victim of state violence
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On September 25, Korean farmer and rights activist Baek Nam-gi succumbed to injuries inflicted by police when massive force was used against a national demonstration in Seoul last November. After he was struck down by water cannon, police continued to blast him and demonstrators attempting to come to his assistance. Baek was taken, unconscious, to hospital where he remained in a coma for 317 days.

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29th September 2016, 14:27

IUF News

CLIMATE JUSTICE FOR TOURISM WORKERS!

Posted: 27 Sep 2016 02:49 AM PDT

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On World Tourism Day, workers are demanding that governments recognize the impact of climate change on tourism, and that protecting the rights and livelihoods of tourism workers be part of the response.

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29th September 2016, 14:38

Brazilian Unionist Visits Chicago Labor Day Parade, 2 other segments - next Labor Beat, CAN TV 19 - starts 9/29

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Brazilian Unionist Visits Chicago Labor Day Parade

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Friday, Oct. 7, 4:30 pm

Herbert Claros da Silva, CSP Conlutas member and VP of big 38,000-strong metalworkers union in Brazil, visited the Sept. 3, 2016 Chicago Labor Day parade on the south side in the 10th Ward. He met with Chicago Teachers Union members and organizers Norine Gutekanst and Matt Luskin to discuss international solidarity. Can also be viewed at: https://youtu.be/TzcSBWG601c

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2nd segment

Farmers Fast Track Protest at Chicago Mercantile Exchange

On International Day of Peasant Struggle, April 17, 2015, members of Family Farm Defenders and allies gathered to protest Fast Track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in front of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Can also be viewed at: https://youtu.be/irOO3jUj03I

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IVAW Spring Exhibition - Celebrate People's History

The Spring Exhibition of posters presented by Iraq Veterans Against the War, titled "Celebrate People's History". It opened on March 20, 2015 at Art In These Times, 2040 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. Can also be viewed at: https://youtu.be/D-FthDLMekA

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2nd October 2016, 15:26

[email protected] #212 - IndustriALL and Tchibo sign global framework agreement

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IndustriALL and Tchibo sign framework agreement strengthening workers’ rights across the supply chain

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Today, IndustriALL Global Union and Tchibo signed a global framework agreement in Hamburg, empowering workers and unions at Non Food supplier companies of Tchibo to bargain collectively on wages, social benefits and working hours in their companies and across the industry.

IndustriALL Global Union General Secretary Jyrki Raina, Tchibo CEO Dr Markus Conrad and his designated successor Thomas Linemayr, Member of the Management Board for Non Food Senay Tansu, today signed a global framework agreement (GFA) covering the entire Non Food supply chain.

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Honda workers’ hunger strike enters second week

Five terminated employees of Tapukara plant of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) began a hunger strike on 19 September demanding reinstatement of workers and the withdrawal of false police charges filed against them.

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Philippines: Workers’ rights trampled by Japanese electronics and auto supplier

Japanese-owned company NT Philippines violates labour rights in the Cavite Economic Zone in the Philippines.

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Peru mine workers go on indefinite strike

Workers at Shougang Hierro Peru mining company have begun an indefinite general strike. They are striking for a decent pay increase and against attacks on workers, as well as demanding better health and safety in the mines.

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IndustriALL calls on Shell to recognize and engage in dialogue with global union network

At a meeting of IndustriALL affiliates at Shell, unions took a stand against precarious work and the company’s failure to recognize union rights.

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2nd October 2016, 15:57

IUF News

The Canada-EU Trade Deal (CETA) is an attack on democracy and the labour movement

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 10:53 PM PDT

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The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is a comprehensive vehicle for rolling back the capacity of governments to regulate in the public interest. CETA is also the backdoor entry for TTIP, the toxic EU-US trade deal.

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2nd October 2016, 16:05

World Federation of Trade Unions prepares for 17th Congress in South Africa

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Durban, South Africa - With the themes of “struggle, internationalism and unity”, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is preparing for its 17th Congress in Durban, South Africa Oct. 5-8.

The WFTU is an international trade union federation of more than 100 countries with a membership of more than 92 million workers. It aims to build a militant, class-oriented, internationalist, democratic trade union movement.

The WFTU holds a congress every five years. This year’s congress is hosted by South Africa’s trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).

This congress of WFTU will be attended by more than 70 trade unions formations from Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe. There will also be a delegation of trade unionists attending from the U.S.

The congress will conclude with a mass workers rally at the Curries Fountain stadium on Oct. 8. As part of the closing ceremony, a workers’ memorial plaque will be unveiled at the Curries Fountain stadium.

The class-oriented and revolutionary trade union movement under the banner of WFTU will use this opportunity to reflect and come out with responses to the challenges facing the working class all around the world and also to consolidate and strengthen the principles of working class internationalism and universalism.

The congress will afford the workers an opportunity to pay the greatest homage to the foundational figures of the South African trade union movement such as Moses Mabhida, JB Marks, John Nkadimeng, Eric ‘Stalin’ Mtshali, John Taolo Gaetsewe, Billy Nair, Wilton Mkwayi, Mark Shope, Joe Molokeng, Ray Alexander, Stephen Dlamini, Leslie Masina, Leon Levy and many others who pioneered COSATU’s predecessor SACTU.

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3rd October 2016, 13:18

Indonesian fast food chain escalates aggression against workers demanding basic rights

Leading fast food chain in Indonesia escalates repression against workers demanding basic rights

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Champ Resto Indonesia, one of Indonesia's leading fast food chains, is escalating its aggression against workers and their union, who are demanding respect for basic rights. Last November, a Champ Resto worker's new-born baby died when the child was refused essential hospital care. Only then did workers become aware that they were not registered in the government health insurance program for employees and their families.

The father of the new-born child, who had worked at Champ Resto for fourteen years, was fired for missing 5 days' work while the family mourned the death of their child. When members of the national hotel and restaurant workers' federation FSPM demonstrated in Bandung in July to demand that Champ Resto register all employees for family medical coverage in accordance with government regulations, 83 workers were immediately dismissed.

Management refuses reinstatement and has responded to union protests by further pressuring union members. The union continues to hold weekly demonstrations to demand reinstatement of the dismissed workers, full respect for trade union rights and the inclusion of all company workers and their families in the government health insurance scheme.

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4th October 2016, 13:07

It happened again

It happened again. 34 workers died after a Bangladesh factory that makes Nestlé products burned to the ground.

Corporations need to start taking worker safety seriously. Tell Nestlé and British American Tobacco to compensate the victims of the Tampaco Foils fire and pay for safety renovations so this doesn’t happen again.

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Chris,

Last month at least 34 workers died in a fire that ripped through a factory in Bangladesh. The fire was so fierce it took fire crews 36 hours to extinguish -- and rescue workers still couldn’t enter the building afterwards for fear it would collapse. Crews are still clearing through the rubble.

The facility manufactured packaging for Nestlé and British American Tobacco (BAT). This avoidable incident was yet another reminder that super-rich multi-national corporations like Nestlé still prioritize profit over people's lives, and aren’t doing enough to make sure their supply chains treat workers safely and fairly.

Corporate greed puts workers’ lives on the line every day -- and we can’t keep letting it happen.

Tell Nestlé and British American Tobacco to compensate the victims of the Tampaco Foils fire and pay for safety renovations at all of their supply factories. (https://act.sumofus.org/go/349581?t=2&akid=23153.859590.BPRo2T)

The Tampaco Foils fire is the worst industrial disaster in the country since the horrendous Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013 -- where over a thousand workers perished. Now more than ever, we need global brands to commit to better oversight of their supply chains, to put an end to these unsafe working conditions.

In the aftermath of Rana Plaza, after massive public outcry from SumOfUs members and others around the world, dozens of companies came together to sign an Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. It was a huge victory for people power. We got major corporations to sign a legally binding five-year commitment to improve workers’ conditions and safety in Bangladesh.

The fire on September 10th proved that there is still much work to be done in factories in other industries. But we can help to ensure that happens. Together, we can call on Nestlé and other companies to improve working conditions in their factories and those throughout their supply chain, and ensure that the victims and survivors of this tragic fire receive full and fair compensation immediately. They don't need charity -- they need a proper Arrangement set up in the same way as done for Rana Plaza victims.

Demand that Nestlé and BAT compensate the victims of the Tampaco Foils fire and pay for safety renovations at all of their supply factories. (https://act.sumofus.org/go/349581?t=3&akid=23153.859590.BPRo2T)

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Liz, Toni and the rest of the SumOfUs team

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Labour leader, rights group demand fair compensation to Tampaco fire victims, the Daily Star, Sept 19,2016
Bangladesh factory fire kills 23, injures dozens more, Reuters, Sept 10, 2016
Tampaco death toll rises to 33, Dhaka Tribune, Sept 13, 2016

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4th October 2016, 13:40

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Another trade union victim of vigilante killing in the Philippines

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Another union activist has been murdered in the Philippines. Edilberto Miralles, a former taxi union president, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on September 23 in front of the National Labor Relations Commission in Quezon City, where he was scheduled to attend a hearing. He is the seventh union and community activist to be murdered in September.

Leading fast food chain in Indonesia escalates repression against workers demanding basic rights

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Champ Resto Indonesia, one of Indonesia's leading fast food chains, is escalating its aggression against workers and their union, who are demanding respect for basic rights. You can support their struggle - CLICK HERE TO SEND A MESSAGE TO CHAMP RESTO! (https://www.iufcampaigns.org/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=1022)

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4th October 2016, 13:56

PepsiCo Workers Still Need Your Solidarity!

PepsiCo responds to formation of new union in Pakistan by attacking rights!

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Knowing how busy everyone is in our common fight for justice and rights for workers around the world you might not have yet had the opportunity to respond to this appeal for support!

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PepsiCo management at the company's Frito-Lay plant in Lahore, Pakistan has responded to the formation and official registration of a trade union with 650 members by harassing and transferring union officers and seeking to violate the union's collective bargaining rights by creating a bogus union. Workers initially formed a union in response to the massive abuse of precarious employment through labour contractors, which denies permanent employment to workers who have worked for years at the plant.

Since the PepsiCo Workers' Union was registered and officially granted collective bargaining rights, union officers have been targeted for disciplinary procedures on false charges and the union president has been transferred out of the plant to prevent contact with members. The company has registered a fake national union claiming to represent workers at two different sites in order to undercut the Lahore workers' demand for a negotiated collective agreement.

A large number of workers, including women workers, have been holding protest actions at the factory gate, demanding the company cease its attack on rights and negotiate in good faith.
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6th October 2016, 13:17

Abercrombie & Fitch: Dangerous Factories

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More than three years after Abercrombie and Fitch made a legally-binding commitment to worker safety, the workers sewing A&F clothing are still working in dangerous conditions. In the wake of the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse that killed 1,134 workers, A&F signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh and committed to improving conditions in all factories they source from in Bangladesh. This agreement was meant to prevent a repeat of what remains the deadliest disaster in the history of the global apparel industry. Now, more than three years after this commitment, thousands of Bangladeshi workers who sew A&F’s clothing continue to toil in multi-story factories that are at risk of being the next Rana Plaza.

Take action: Urge Abercrombie & Fitch to put an end to the safety delays! (https://laborrights.z2systems.com/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=laborrights&emailId=81dda3b2848fe24bbd9425297ed873608m57857748 1d&secureId=OF4U7VVi3j9fk39J2m1qEg%3D%3D&linkId=11025&targetUrl=http://abercrombieandflames.com/send-a-letter/)

Our review of the most recent corrective action plans for A&F supplier factories reveals that the brand has failed to meet mandated timeframes for repairs in most of its supplier factories. Many renovations, including the installation of proper fire safety exits and ensuring walls and columns are strong enough to hold up the floors, have yet to be completed. In half of the Abercrombie factories studied, workers may not be able to safely exit the building in case of emergency -- that’s over 10,000 lives in danger every day A&F waits to keep its commitments.

This is especially concerning because factory fires are not new to A&F. In 2010, A&F’s supplier That’s It Sportswear caught fire and cost 29 people their lives. This significant loss of life came from some of the same conditions found in their factories today: blocked exits, floors built illegally on top of another – in the case of That’s It Sportswear, so high that firefighters didn’t have ladders tall enough to save people on the top floors.

Join us in calling on Abercrombie & Fitch to immediately ensure the necessary renovations are made in Bangladesh, so that nightmares like That’s It Sportswear and Rana Plaza never happen again. (https://laborrights.z2systems.com/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=laborrights&emailId=81dda3b2848fe24bbd9425297ed873608m57857748 1d&secureId=OF4U7VVi3j9fk39J2m1qEg%3D%3D&linkId=11022&targetUrl=http://abercrombieandflames.com/send-a-letter/)

Thanks in advance for taking action and joining this movement!

In solidarity,

Sarah Newell
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6th October 2016, 13:27

Liberia: Union rights now - reinstate fired union leaders

In February 2014, twenty-two union leaders across Liberia were fired without any hearing by the Health Minister following a nationwide strike against poor working conditions in the health sector. Twenty were later reinstated -- but not Joseph S. Tamba and George Poe Williams, respectively President and General Secretary of the National Health Workers' Association of Liberia.

The strike followed repeated attempts to seek change through negotiations and dialogue which the government rebuffed. These deplorable working conditions had fatal consequences: the lack of protective equipment, long working hours and the lack of medication in the fight against Ebola caused hundreds of deaths amongst health workers.

To date, it remains illegal in Liberia for public service workers to organise and form or join a union that represents them although the country has ratified ILO Conventions 87 and 98.

We have just launched a campaign together with Public Services International, the International Transport Workers Federation and ITUC Africa to send messages to the Liberian government demanding the reinstatement of the dismissed workers, the recognition of the right to organize for public service workers and respect for trade union rights.

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7th October 2016, 16:32

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The assault on the right to strike

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The right of workers to collectively withdraw their labour underpins the right to join a union and to collectively bargain the terms of employment, but the right to strike is under increasing attack, by governments and at international level through the employer offensive at the ILO. The full breadth of the growing assault on the right to strike is newly documented in a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation published in the run-up to the October 7 World Day for Decent Work.

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7th October 2016, 16:44

World Federation of Trade Unions 17th Congress underway in South Africa

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By Brad Sigal

Durban, South Africa - 1500 delegates from class-struggle unions from over 110 countries gathered in Durban, South Africa on Oct. 5 to begin the 17th Congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU). The WFTU represents 92 million workers in 125 countries.

The gathering is hosted by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the historic trade union federation that helped lead the fight to defeat apartheid.

Delegates were welcomed by COSATU president Sdumo Dlamini, WFTU Secretary General George Mavrikos, and then were received with a speech by the president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma. There were speakers in several languages from unions leading important, large struggles around the world, including India, Brazil, France, Indonesia, Chile, Ecuador, Lebanon and many more. Union leaders from socialist countries China, Vietnam and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea also spoke to delegates.

The WFTU 17th Congress is organized under the themes of “Struggle, internationalism, unity; Forward for the attainment of contemporary needs of the working class, for the emancipation of workers, against poverty and wars generated by capitalist barbarity.”

Speaker after speaker paid homage to the historic anti-apartheid struggle of the workers and people of South Africa. Delegates from African countries particularly expressed the importance of having this world Congress in Africa and particularly in South Africa, with its long history of struggles for national liberation and working class emancipation. The hundreds of COSATU members present brought the spirit of their struggle to the Congress, frequently leading the group in songs and chants from the South African anti-apartheid and workers’ struggles.

The Congress will meet for two more days, with speakers from many more countries, leadership elections, resolutions and cultural events.

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10th October 2016, 14:01

20 trade union leaders in jail - demand union rights in South Korea now!

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The assault on workers' rights in South Korea is intensifying, with more than 20 trade union leaders and members now imprisoned including 7 Korean Confederation of Trade Union leaders and officials including KCTU President Han Sang-gyun (pictured), KPTU vice president Cho, Sung-deok and KPCWU president Lee, Jong-hwa.

President Park Guen-hye’s government has been throwing people into prison simply for standing up for workers’ rights.

Enough is enough.

The international trade union movement has launched a major online campaign on LabourStart to press for the release of these union leaders and for union rights in South Korea.

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11th October 2016, 14:30

Fall Harvest

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Dear Chris,

We know fall has arrived when pumpkins appear on porches and apple cider abounds in supermarkets.

Unfortunately, for far too many children, fall is about returning to harvest fields instead of the classroom.

As ILRF begins its strategic planning over the next 6 months, we are asking ourselves, how can we end child labor? United Nations data shows there are 168 million child laborers – 60% of them in the fields.

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We need to change the debate. Solving child labor is not just about building schools. It’s about making sure there are teachers in the schools who are paid decently – not forcing them to take time off to harvest cotton the way they do in Uzbekistan. It’s about ensuring farmworkers’ rights and paying a decent wage – not duping thousands of families into subsistence tenant farming that leaves them deeply indebted as the tobacco industry does in cash-starved Malawi.

At the end of the day, ending child labor is about economic equality. In every country where we work, our grassroots partners tell us that most children work because their families are too poor to send them to school. This is a collective problem that global corporations refuse to address. Sure, they’ll build schools, but they want to continue using their market power to remain competitive, even if it means trapping millions of children in permanent poverty. Yes. Permanent. Because child labor is the crime that hits twice. First they lose in childhood. Second they lose in adulthood, invariably forced into subsistence living without an education.

Changing corporate behavior is not easy and it’s that much harder when international development bodies like the World Bank ignore their complicity as well. In Uzbekistan, the world’s 5th largest cotton exporter, the government is again forcing students, teachers and doctors to harvest cotton this fall. Yet the World Bank continues to invest in the sector, despite having committed to withdraw if the forced labor continues.

Last week, ILRF convened a panel at the World Bank to present our report Financing Forced Labor, a withering indictment of the World Bank’s complicity in forced labor in Uzbekistan. We know Uzbekistan can do better because in 2014 the government gave the word and municipalities across the country stopped forcing children into the field. Now the only children still harvesting cotton are those whose families can’t afford child care or desperately need their children’s help to make their quotas and avoid losing basic social benefits. Ironically, the World Bank continues to give loans to a government that these same children will be forced to pay down later.

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12th October 2016, 13:28

A shocking story of union-busting from Indonesia

Even in an age of widespread union-busting around the world, this story is truly shocking.

Champ Resto Indonesia, one of Indonesia's leading fast food chains, is escalating its aggression against workers and their union, who are demanding respect for basic rights. Last November, a Champ Resto worker's new-born baby died when the child was refused essential hospital care. Only then did workers become aware that they were not registered in the government health insurance program for employees and their families.

The father of the new-born child, who had worked at Champ Resto for fourteen years, was fired for missing five days' work while the family mourned. When members of the national hotel and restaurant workers' federation FSPM demonstrated in Bandung in July to demand that Champ Resto register all employees for family medical coverage in accordance with government regulations, 83 workers were immediately dismissed.

Management refuses reinstatement and has responded to union protests by further pressuring union members. Fourteen workers active in the union were transferred from Bandung to Jakarta - a distance of over 100 kilometers and 3 hours' travel. Without accommodation and separated from their families, 12 of the 14 resigned.

The union continues to hold weekly demonstrations to demand reinstatement of the dismissed workers, full respect for trade union rights and the inclusion of all company workers and their families in the government health insurance scheme.

The International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) has launched a major online campaign in support of these workers. Please take a minute to sign up and join more than 5,000 people who have already sent messages of protest:

https://www.iufcampaigns.org/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=1022

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13th October 2016, 13:33

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Italy: new union initiatives to combat widespread abuses of migrant agricultural labour

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The IUF-affiliated FLAI-CGIL has launched important new organizing initiatives to combat massive rights abuses in Italian agriculture by breaking the grip of the criminal networks of caporalato (gangmasters) on vulnerable migrant workers. The system of labour agents who provide workers and enforce discipline condemns workers to living in dangerous and degrading makeshift rural 'ghettoes' and working under hazardous conditions for payment below the minimum set by collective agreements and the law.

Korea: free imprisoned unionists!

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Over twenty trade union leaders and members are now in prison as the government of Korea and powerful conglomerates escalate their attack on basic rights. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has launched an online petition on LabourStart calling on the government to free all jailed union leaders - CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION! (https://www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.cgi?c=3190)

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15th October 2016, 14:55

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Fast food workers win guaranteed hours in New Zealand

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The IUF-affiliate Unite Union and Restaurant Brands, which owns the rights to market KFC, Pizza Hut, Starbucks and Carl's Jr brands in New Zealand, have signed an agreement which fully guarantees workers' hours and shifts.

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18th October 2016, 17:49

Tell Turkey's government that journalism is not a crime

Hundreds of journalists have been arrested, sacked and harassed following Turkey's attempted coup.

The failed coup was followed by a state of emergency and excessive and indiscriminate measures to purge all individuals believed to be connected to the attempt.

The Turkish authorities are now jailing journalists, shutting down radio and TV channels and censoring the internet in an attempt to silence criticism.

90 journalists are in jail and more than 130 media have been banned since mid-July.

2500 journalists have lost their jobs and arrest warrants have been issued for dozens of media workers.

Some families of journalists, who are in hiding or have fled, have been arrested to force them to surrender.

Please sign up to the International Federation of Journalists campaign on LabourStart:

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19th October 2016, 13:20

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Nutella workers on strike in Turkey

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IUF members at Ferrero's Nutella factory in Turkey have been on strike since 10 October. Management has responded to the strike by pressuring workers to resign. The 150 striking workers have vowed to continue until a new collective agreement is signed and their rights are protected.

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26th October 2016, 14:50

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European meat affiliates demand action to stop abuses (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5193)

Posted: 25 Oct 2016 08:39 AM PDT

On October 19, the German Food Workers Union NGG organized a conference for IUF European meat affiliates at Rheda-Wiedenbrück, where Tönnies, Germany's largest meat processor is based. According to the NGG, 3500 of the 4000 employees in the production line at the local factory are employed under temporary work contracts.

Korea: Police aggression continues at funeral of farmer union leader Baek Nam-gi (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5192)

Posted: 25 Oct 2016 02:41 AM PDT

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Today police were deployed at the funeral hall where the family of Baek Nam-gi is attempting to hold a ceremony following his death on September 25 after 317 days in a coma.

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26th October 2016, 19:19

Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble buys palm oil produced by modern day slaves in Malaysian plantations. The company is well aware of the situation and has the power to put an end to it.

Demand Procter & Gamble end modern slavery in its supply chain -- NOW.

SIGN THE PETITION (https://act.sumofus.org/go/350284?t=1&akid=23757.859590.YxAPoF)

Chris,

What’s the link between household brands Head & Shoulders, Covergirl, and Gillette?

Modern slavery.

The brands’ parent company, Procter & Gamble (P&G), purchases conflict palm oil from the world’s largest palm oil plantation operator, Malaysian company Felda Global Ventures (Felda). Felda deals in the human trafficking of its plantation workers, confiscating close to 30,000 passports, and still works with labor contractors and recruiters who charge enormous fees to trafficked foreign workers.

Plantation workers are trapped in modern day slavery, all to produce palm oil that ends up in P&G products. The multinational consumer goods company is well aware of the problem, and yet still buys conflict palm oil from its joint venture partner Felda.

P&G is getting ready to publish its 2016 sustainability progress report, and the company knows that customers and investors are watching. Now’s the perfect moment to force P&G to pressure its supplier and business partner to do the right thing and stop this human catastrophe. Felda can’t afford to lose a partner like P&G.

Tell Procter & Gamble: cut conflict palm oil from your company’s supply chain and ensure that modern day slavery does not continue in Felda Global Ventures’ operations. (https://act.sumofus.org/go/350284?t=2&akid=23757.859590.YxAPoF)

Procter & Gamble can’t pretend to ignore the plantation workers’ ordeal. A 2015 Wall Street Journal article documented the human rights violations happening in Felda palm oil plantations. Because they’re complicit, companies like Procter & Gamble are responsible for the plight of modern slaves either working on palm oil plantations or dying on their way there. Last year, Thai and Malaysian police found nearly 150 bodies of people thought to have died in human traffickers’ camps at the border.

Mohammad Rubel, who was smuggled into Malaysia by traffickers and was later held captive in a jungle camp, says he worked on a palm plantation for six months without receiving a salary. Muhi, another worker, says that “there is no escape,” and that Felda contractors “bring policemen and threaten to send us to jail.” In Malaysia illegally and without passports, these workers are trapped for the sake of cheap palm oil.

Over the past two years, we pushed companies like McDonald's and Starbucks coffee to adopt zero deforestation palm oil policies. We've also focused our efforts on the improvement of human and workers’ rights in the palm oil sector with campaigns targeting PepsiCo and Unilever. It’s time for Procter & Gamble to stand by its principles and save close to 30,000 palm oil workers from modern slavery.

Tell Procter & Gamble: cut conflict palm oil from your company’s supply chain and ensure that modern day slavery does not continue in Felda Global Ventures’ operations. (https://act.sumofus.org/go/350284?t=3&akid=23757.859590.YxAPoF)

Thanks for all that you do,
Hanna, Fatah, and the team at SumOfUs

More information:

Palm-Oil Migrant Workers Tell of Abuses on Malaysian Plantations, The Wall Street Journal. 26 July 2015
Malaysian Palm Oil Giant Felda Global Ventures (FGV) Remains Embroiled in Modern Day Slavery Controversy, Rainforest Action Network. 17 March 2016.
Customer letter to FELDA, 23 September 2016

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27th October 2016, 14:46

Leaked: Samsung’s Anti-Union Documents

Dear Chris,

The founder of Samsung once reportedly declared the company would "recognise trade unions over my dead body!" Now, leaked internal documents at Samsung reveal the extreme lengths the company will go to exert total control over workers’ lives – especially those who want to form a union.

The PowerPoint presentation – intended for the eyes of corporate bosses only – decrees specific "countermeasures" to be used to "dominate employees". And the language is shocking. The leaked material instructs managers to "isolate employees," "punish leaders," and "induce internal conflicts".

Will you join people from around the world demanding Samsung end worker abuse and abolish its "no-union" policy? (http://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=757093&ea.campaigner.email=boBFmXJG0Szuya%2FTZFVW597cBTh3 KwkR&ea.campaigner.id=mFmRZ0OoOYKZkArzVWMSmA==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0)

With a precariously-employed workforce, inhumane conditions are rife. According to China Labor Watch, employees at Samsung factories, some under-aged, suffer through 100 hours of forced overtime per month, unpaid work, standing for 11 to 12 hours, verbal and physical abuse, severe age and gender discrimination, lack of worker safety.... During a three-month period while the Samsung Galaxy tablet was being rushed out, one worker testified that she “slept about two or three hours a night”, and had to stop breastfeeding her three-month-old infant to keep up with schedule.

Samsung has a reputation for modern technology, but also a history of medieval conditions for the estimated 1,500,000 workers entrenched in a vast and shadowy web of subcontractors and subsidiaries that runs deep throughout the region. What's more, the Asia Resource Monitor Centre reports that Samsung's "no-union" policy affects the entire Asian electronics industry, "because Samsung Electronics intervenes actively to prevent the formation of unions at its suppliers".

Samsung is everywhere. If you have a smartphone – an Android or iPhone – there's a good chance that parts in your phone are produced on factory floors controlled by Samsung and its affiliated companies. Now it's up to all of us to tell Samsung enough is enough.

Samsung shareholders are meeting today! Send them a message now! (http://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=757094&ea.campaigner.email=boBFmXJG0Szuya%2FTZFVW597cBTh3 KwkR&ea.campaigner.id=mFmRZ0OoOYKZkArzVWMSmA==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0)

Thank you for all you do,
Sharan Burrow

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27th October 2016, 17:53

The deadly practice of pa-aling fishing

Dear Chris, Right now, an important, harrowing story is missing amidst reports of modern slavery in the fishing industry.

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Dear Chris,

Right now, an important, harrowing story is missing amidst reports of modern slavery in the fishing industry. The media has given little attention to pa-aling – a dangerous deep-sea fishing method. Men – and even boys – are made to dive with makeshift equipment 100 feet down to the ocean floor, putting their lives at grave risk.

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Cecilia Oebanda, our partner at Visayan Forum said "One victim was forced into pa-aling fishing at the age of nine and has already lost three fingers."[1]

Visayan Forum have been working with local authorities in one hotspot region for vulnerable fishermen. They have made great progress so far, acting on reports of fishermen being drugged to stay awake and beaten when they refuse to follow instructions.[2]

The Philippine Department of Labor has pledged initiatives to recognise these fishermen’s rights and protect them from modern slavery but we are still waiting for desperately needed laws and policies to secure positive change throughout the country.[3]

Show your support for fishermen under threat right now, diving deep down to the ocean floor. (http://campaigns.walkfree.org/q/tUEeaivpWyPbpbcG3sXqxgoMbD9dXSpTQrSmxQw9_nhQyADG24 RXW2dTo)

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3rd November 2016, 13:59

IUF News

Uzbekistan: government ratifies ILO Convention 87, forced labour and repression continue (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5206)

Posted: 02 Nov 2016 08:49 AM PDT

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In 2016, as in previous years, the government of Uzbekistan continues to rely on the massive use of forced labour in the cotton harvest and harsh repression of rights activists. On October 13, the day the government ratified ILO Convention 87 on freedom of association, the authorities detained four journalists reporting on forced labour.

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4th November 2016, 14:23

[email protected] #217 - Pakistan: Workers strike as shipyard death toll rises

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The death toll from the fire in the Gadani shipbreaking yard has risen to 21, with as many as 150 still trapped in the burning ship.

A fire is raging aboard an oil tanker in the shipbreaking yard of Gadani, Pakistan, with up to 150 workers trapped inside. A gas container exploded inside the oil tanker on Tuesday, and firefighters are battling to control the blaze.

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4th November 2016, 14:46

IUF News

PepsiCo Pakistan workers speak out: why we need the union the company refuses to recognize! (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5208)

Posted: 03 Nov 2016 10:49 AM PDT

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Women workers have been extremely active in the fight for union rights at PepsiCo's Lahore factory, demonstrating regularly to demand union recognition and permanent employment status. Yet they are invisible: the most recent factory inspection report, from March 2016, fails to even indicate their presence in the factory. The report, however, notes that of the more than 1500 workers employed at the factory of the past year, only 134 had permanent employment status. CLICK HERE TO SEND A MESSAGE TO PEPSICO! (https://www.iufcampaigns.org/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=1015)

Bangladesh: union mobilizes to defend workers at public agency supplying seed to farmers (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5207)

Posted: 03 Nov 2016 07:12 AM PDT

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The IUF-affiliated Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF) and the National Women Farmers & Workers Association (NWFA) held a joint rally on October 25 in Dhaka, forming a human chain around the National Press Club to highlight the deteriorating situation of workers at the Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) and the progressive weakening of public research and seed provision to farmers.

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8th November 2016, 13:09

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Thousands mourn Korean farmer activist Baek Nam-gi, the struggle continues (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5214)

Posted: 07 Nov 2016 03:19 AM PST

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On November 6, thousands gathered for the funeral procession of farmer leader Baek Nam-gi in Gwangju Geumnamno Square, site of the 1980 democracy uprising. The protestors reiterated calls for the authorities to be held accountable and to hold an official investigation into his death.

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8th November 2016, 13:42

All Out on Sat., November 19, Day of Action - Boycott Driscoll's Strawberries!

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

I received earlier today a posting from Eddie Rosario, president of the New York City chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) -- which is the Latino affinity group of the AFL-CIO trade union federation.

In this posting [see below], Brother Rosario informs us that NYC LCLAA will be organizing an informational picket at Whole Foods on November 19 (in support of the Boycott of Driscoll's Strawberries) as part of the Global Day of Action in solidarity with the 70,000 farm workers in San Quintin (Baja California, Mexico) who are still fighting for union recognition by -- and the signing of a contract with -- Driscoll's Farms and their Mexican subsidiary, BerryMex.

I would like to urge all of you to get your unions, community organizations, and co-workers to follow the example of NYC LCLAA by supporting this Global Day of Action. I am including as an attachment the November 19 leaflet as well as the resolution on San Quintin that was adopted last August by the national convention of LCLAA in Orlando, Florida.

I should add that since this LCLAA resolution was approved, the workers at Sakuma Brothers Farms in the state of Washington -- organized in Familias Unidas por la Justicia -- won union recognition and a contract, and have since discontinued their boycott of Sakuma Brothers produce as part of the agreement.

But the Driscoll's strawberry boycott is still very much alive, with boycott committees organizing the November 19 Day of Action all across the United States.

Please support the November 19 Global Day of Action in support of the San Quintin farm workers!

Thanks, in advance,

Alan Benjamin,
Editor,
The Organizer newspaper

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LETTER FROM EDDIE ROSARIO (NYC LCLAA)

Hello Hermanas y Hermanos:
As per the discussion of our NYC LCLAA meeting and the resolution we adopted as a chapter and national convention, please see the below attachment with the electronic flyer for the November 19, 2016, Day of Action in solidarity with the San Quintin farm workers and in support of the boycott of Driscoll Farms.

On November 19, NYC LCLAA will be at the Whole Foods, 12:00 Noon, on 14th Street across from Union Square Park (between Broadway and University Place). Family and friends are more than welcome.

In solidarity,

Eddie Rosario
President
NYC Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)

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21st National LCLAA Convention, Orlando, FL August 18 – 20, 2016

ADOPTED Resolution: Solidarity with the Farmworkers in San Quintin (Mexico) and Skagit County (Washington State)

WHEREAS: as many as 70,000 farmworkers (jornaleros) in the Valley of San Quintin, Baja California (Mexico) have been waging intermittent strikes and organizing road blockades and mass mobilizations since mid-March 2015 to demand an increase in their daily wage from 100 pesos to 200 pesos per day [raise from $7.50 per day to $15], an eight-hour workday, health care, overtime pay and vacation days, an end to the widespread sexual abuse, and, most important, the legal recognition of their independent union — the Alianza de Organizaciones Nacional, Estatal y Municipal por la Justicia Social del Valle de San Quintin (Alliance National, State and Municipal Organizations for Social Justice in the Valley of San Quintin, or Alianza) — as the bargaining agent for these 70,000 workers; and

WHEREAS: these farmworkers (many of them indigenous workers from Oaxaca) pick strawberries, tomatoes, and other fruit primarily for export to the United States under the label of Driscoll’s, through its Mexican subsidiary, BerryMex; and

WHEREAS: the farmworkers are currently “covered” by “protection contracts” signed between the growers and the CTM, the CROM and the CROC — essentially government run unions — where the contracts signed are nothing more than sweetheart deals favoring the growers; and

WHEREAS: articles in the mainstream media about the conditions of farmworkers in San Quintin describe rat-infested camps, some without functioning toilets, with workers routinely having their wages illegally withheld, and many facing debt after being gouged by the overpricing of necessities sold at company stores, and with pay so low that it amounts to less than one-tenth of what U.S.-based farmworkers earn”; and

WHEREAS: over the weekend of May 9-10, 2015, the Baja California government, instead of opening negotiations with the farmworkers, as promised, sent in police to quash the farmworkers’ protest, severely wounding 70 workers, many with rubber bullets shot at close range, leaving some of the workers in critical condition; and

WHEREAS: the repression against the farmworkers of San Quintin made front-page news and created a huge backlash across Mexico, forcing the government to (1) meet with representatives of the Alianza and promise to legally recognize the workers’ independent union (promising a “registro” to the Alianza) and (2) promise to implement many of the demands raised by the workers that pertain to Mexican labor law; and

WHEREAS: the growers are refusing to abide by the agreement between the Mexican government and the Alianza, arguing that they have more than 60 signed contracts with the CTM, the CROM, and the CROC, and that they will therefore not recognize nor open negotiations with the Alianza; and

WHEREAS: the leadership of the Alianza, soon after the strike began, issued a call to the U.S. labor and community movements to organize a boycott across the United States of Driscoll’s, extending the boycott of Driscoll’s that was launched one year earlier by the FamiliasUnidaspor la Justicia; and

WHEREAS: upon learning of the strike of the farmworkers in San Quintin, unionists and community activists in cities throughout California and other U.S. states launched a campaign incorporating the struggle of the San Quintin workers into the Driscoll’s boycott; and

WHEREAS: many of the San Quintin farmworkers have either worked in the farms owned by Sakuma Brothers in the state of Washington, or have family who work for Sakuma Brothers, where the workers have been subjected to a wide range of abuse for years, such as inadequate piece rates, wage theft, racist and sexist abuse by supervisors, substandard housing and continuous retaliation for their efforts to improve their conditions; and

WHEREAS: the Washington State AFL-CIO has recognized the independent union formed in 2013 by the Sakuma farmworkers — the Familias Unidas por la Justicia — and has endorsed and supported the boycott of Sakuma Brothers Farms; and

WHEREAS: Miles Joseph Reiter is the Chairman of the Board of Driscoll’s Inc. and is also a member of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture and this board has responsibility for oversight of this industry. We question and oppose his serving on this board due to the conditions of the striking farm workers and the families in San Quintin, Baja, California;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the 21ST National LCLAA Convention goes on record in support of the struggle of the 70,000 farmworkers in San Quintin and the 468 farmworkers in Skagit County, Washington, for better wages, working conditions, and the recognition of their fighting unions — Familias Unidas por la Justicia and the Alianza de Organizaciones Nacional, Estatal y Municipal por la Justicia Social del Valle de San Quintin (Alliance of Farm Workers of San Quintin) — as the legitimate bargaining agents for these workers; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the LCLAA opposes the “protection contracts” signed between the growers and the company unions, and urges the Mexican government to formally give the “registro” to the Alianza, as promised, that it meet the Alianza’s demands pertaining to Mexico’s labor laws, — and that the government use all its powers to compel the growers to rescind the “protection contracts” with the company unions, negotiate directly with the Alianza, and agree to increase the workers’ wages to 200 pesos a day, while resolving the other demands raised by the workers; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, LCLAA reiterates its call on Sakuma Farms to rehire strikers and sign a contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia in Washington State; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that LCLAA calls upon the California Federation of Labor and the entire trade union movement in the United States to add Driscoll’s to their “Do Not Patronize” list and to actively promote a boycott of Driscoll’s – as well as build ties of solidarity with the San Quintin farmworkers, organizing union-to-union solidarity, visits to San Quintin, and tours to the United States of representatives of the Alianza so that these workers can tell their stories; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that LCLAA will link the struggle of the Sakuma Brothers and Driscoll’s workers in the state of Washington, to the struggle of the San Quintin workers; and

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that LCLAA will send this resolution to the Alianza and Sakuma Farms workers, with copies to the broader labor movement, to be used as a template for further resolutions in solidarity with the farmworkers of San Quintin and Familias Unidas por la Justicia in Washington State.

Respectfully Submitted by New York City, Long Island, and Pittsburgh chapters of the
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement

ckaihatsu

10th November 2016, 13:49

IUF News

Workers demand union recognition at McDonald's Korea (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5217)

Posted: 09 Nov 2016 10:38 PM PST

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Representatives of IUF Asia/Pacific and the IUF-affiliated SEIU expressed their solidarity with workers organizing for union recognition at a protest action in front of the McDonald's Korea head office in Seoul organized by the Arbeit (Part-Time) Workers' Union.

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10th November 2016, 14:01

Women workers at PepsiCo Pakistan speak out: why we need the union the company refuses to recognize!

Women workers at PepsiCo Pakistan tell why they want the union the company refuses to recognize

Women workers have been extremely active in the fight for union rights at PepsiCo's Lahore factory (http://iuf.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=ba68b11704&e=090f0b0646), demonstrating regularly to demand union recognition and permanent employment status. Yet they are invisible: the most recent factory inspection report, from March 2016, fails to even indicate their presence in the factory. The report, however, notes that of the more than 1500 workers employed at the factory over the past year, only 134 had permanent employment status!

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The workers are determined to defend their union that was officially recognized and granted collective bargaining status in July. Union member Anwar Bibi explains why in these words:

"I have been working at PepsiCo FritoLay Factory in Lahore for five years in the waste department under the no work, no pay system. I always arrived at the factory at 5:00 AM and if I am late only for few minutes I will not get the work because my position is already filled by another woman contract worker that arrived earlier than me. Together with the other women contract workers, we gather in front of the factory gate every day wondering if we can get work. If I don't get the job, I wasted my time and have to pay my transport back home. The company says this is not their problem - but then who is responsible for that?"

PepsiCo has responded to the workers' demand for rights and recognition by harassing and threatening union officers, pressuring workers to leave the union and creating a bogus union to usurp collective bargaining rights.

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11th November 2016, 13:30

IUF News

Workers at Seoul luxury Sejong Hotel continue the fight to defend their independent union (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5221)

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13th November 2016, 13:07

[LaborTech] Billionaire Jeff Bezos World For Workers-Amazon delivery drivers 'feel compelled to defecate in vans' to save time

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Drivers delivering parcels for online retail giant Amazon often work more hours than is legally allowed and earn below the national minimum wage, an undercover reporter has claimed.

Workers for agencies contracted by the company told a BBCjournalist they were expected to deliver up to 200 parcels a day, completing a fixed route.
In order to meet the company’s expectations, some van drivers said they felt compelled to break speed limits and urinate and defecate in their vehicles.

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Even when they did not take breaks, drivers, including the undercover reporter, claimed they regularly worked for more than 11 hours per day, exceeding the legal limit placed by EU law on people who drive goods vehicles as their job.

Amazon told the BBC it was committed to ensuring drivers worked safely and legally, and were “fairly compensated”.

Amazon Logistics, the firm's delivery wing, contract drivers through several independent agencies. The undercover journalist, who has not been named, infilitrated the company by getting a job with one these companies, AHC Services.

The reporter worked for two weeks at Amazon’s Avonmouth depot in Bristol, where he was paid a fixed rate of £110 per daily route.

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After deductions, including optional van hire for a week and insurance, he took home only £93.47 for three days' work, including at least one shift exceeding 11 hours. This is equal to £2.59 per hour.

When he worked four days in his second week, he received £4.76 per hour.

Several other drivers said they took home less per hour than the national minimum wage because they had to work such long hours to deliver all the packages they were assigned.

Some agency staff said the system did not allow for traffic jams, let alone factor in time for breaks. For this reason, some workers said they sometimes had to defecate in bags and urinate in bottles rather than stopping to find a toilet.

The journalist said he was expected to be available to work six days a week. He found the long hours impacted his relationship and family life.

He also said other drivers told him they drove at 120 mph on the motorway in order to complete their deliveries in a day.

After 15 years, online retail giant Amazon reveals device-like grip on shoppers and its best-selling products in history

A former driver who delivered parcels for Amazon, Charlie Chikaviro, told the BBC the pressure to deliver all his assigned packages left him with no choice but to speed.

“I had to, the way it was designed. You're going to have to do that,” he said.

“I had a few crashes... but not bad crashes.”

Cody Cooper, a former supervisor who left AHC Services a year ago, told the broadcaster she ordered one driver, who fell asleep at the wheel, to stop driving because she feared he could “end up killing someone”.

“It was coming up to school time and there could [have been] a group of schoolchildren walking along... and he could have steered off,” she said.

“I wasn't willing to live with that.”

Agency drivers working for Amazon Logistics are all self-employed, and therefore not entitled to the minimum wage or employment rights like sick pay or holiday pay. A similar model is used by major courier companies like CitySprint, Hermes, and eCourier, and is often referred to as symptomatic of the “gig economy”.

Tonia Novitz, professor of labour law at Bristol University, told the BBC that in her opinion drivers contracted by AHC should not be classed as self-employed, because they do not determine their own routes, days of work or rest periods.

“From the evidence I've seen, which suggests [the undercover reporter] would be regarded as a worker or agency worker, he should be getting the national minimum wage,” she said.

In a statement, Amazon said: “As independent contractors of our delivery providers, drivers deliver at their own pace, take breaks at their discretion, and are able to choose the suggestion route or develop their own.”

The company said it expected drivers to be paid a minimum of £12 an hour “before bonuses, incentives and fuel reimbursements”, and it required independent delivery providers to ensure drivers were fully licensed and insured and obeyed “all applicable traffic and safety laws”.

In the past six months, drivers drove a daily average of 8.5 hours and were on duty for 9.1 hours, it added.

Oxford-based AHC said the claims put to them by the BBC were “historic and based on isolated examples which occurred over a year ago”.

“Since then we have made changes to the way our checks are carried out and taken a number of steps to improve our ways of working," it said.

The firm said it took road safety and the welfare of its contracted drivers “extremely seriously”, and that drivers were free to choose when they worked.
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13th November 2016, 13:18

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China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. But under China’s labor management system, independent unionism is severely restricted, and the ACFTU official trade union body monopolizes worker representation for more than 800 million workers. Independent organizations are barred from agitating for their interests, despite growing wealth inequalities, and where long hours, safety hazards, and authoritarian management define life in the factories.

But this has not prevented the emergence of workers’ resistance and fightbacks across almost all sectors of work. The China Labour Bulletin (http://www.clb.org.hk/) reports that the number of strikes has been increasing over the past two decades. At any given time, numerous strikes are taking place, and walkouts and slowdowns over work conditions and pay are a regular and growing occurrence. Workers’ rights NGOs, while operating from a distinct disadvantage, have become increasingly involved and visible.

Lu Zhang and Eli Friedman have each interviewed dozens of Chinese workers, from the auto sector to the factories producing computers and footwear, documenting the processes of migration, changing employment relations, and worker culture underpinning the new Chinese working class and their forms of resistance today.

Moderated by Winnie Ng. Presentations by:

Lu Zhang teaches Sociology at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is the author of Inside China’s Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance (http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107030855). [See review by Herman Rosenfeld: “The Roots and Contours of Worker Rebellion in a Changing China (http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1244.php).”]

Eli Friedman teaches international and comparative labour at Cornell University in Ithaca. He is the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China (http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100431210), and China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance (https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/746-china-on-strike) (with Hao Ren and Zhongjin Li). See “The Life and Resistance of a Chinese Worker (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/china-strikes-workers-factories-friedman-unions).”

Sponsored by: Asian Canadian Labour Alliance, Centre for Social Justice, Global Labour Research Centre at York University, Socialist Project, and the Unifor Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy.

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15th November 2016, 14:50

No Piece of the Pie: US Food Workers in 2016

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This is International Food Workers Week (http://foodchainworkers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8d4fb5bbfa7fc0511389358e&id=e3104e4d60&e=3dc0a496d9), when we advocate for the workers who provide the food we eat every day. To mark this event, the Food Chain Workers Alliance, of which ILRF is a member, has released a new report (http://bit.ly/NPOTP) on the state of U.S. food workers and compiled a list of events and actions (http://foodchainworkers.org/?page_id=4419) you can join in support of food workers everywhere.

The report finds that in the past five years, the U.S. food system has added 1.5 million workers and continues to be the largest employer in the country, with 21.5 million workers. It is also the worst employer in the country: food workers earn an hourly median wage of $10, the lowest in the U.S.

The structural racism upon which the food system was built and continues to function creates a systemic wage gap for food workers of color, and especially women workers of color. Asian women earn 58 cents, Latina women 45 cents, Black women 42 cents, and Native women 36 cents for every dollar earned by white men. With such low wages, 20% (4.3 million) of food workers are food insecure, compared to 13% (15 million) of total U.S. households.

Twenty workers from Food Chain Workers Alliance member organizations were interviewed for this report. Their stories of organizing and successes give us hope and strength, especially in light of the results of the recent U.S. election, to continue joining with others to build a movement for justice. We hope that their stories will give you some optimism, too, and encourage you to take action (http://foodchainworkers.org/?page_id=4419) during this International Food Workers Week and beyond.

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16th November 2016, 13:54

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16th November 2016, 18:18

[LaborTech] Across China, Walmart Faces Labor Unrest as Authorities Stand Aside " as 20,000 people, about a fifth of the company’s work force in China, have joined messaging groups set up by Mr. Wang and other activists on WeChat, a popular app."

Across China, Walmart Faces Labor Unrest as Authorities Stand Aside " as 20,000 people, about a fifth of the company’s work force in China, have joined messaging groups set up by Mr. Wang and other activists on WeChat, a popular app."

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SHENZHEN, China — In a one-man war room in his apartment, a laid-off Walmart employee named Wang Shishu was tapping out a message on his phone to a group of workers and plotting his next move.

Over the past few months, Mr. Wang, 56, has helped organize a national movement in China against Walmart. Labor strikes have hit stores in the south simultaneously. There have been boycotts in the northeast. And here in Shenzhen, where Walmart opened its first outlet in China two decades ago, employees have filed a lawsuit demanding back pay.

“We want a snowball effect,” he said in the booming baritone of a street preacher. “We want everybody to know what to do next.”

As the Chinese economy has slowed, strikes and labor protests have broken out across the country, mostly scattered episodes targeting a single factory or business. The government has responded aggressively, detaining activists and increasing censorship to keep unrest from spreading.

But activism against Walmart’s more than 400 stores in China in recent months has followed a different pattern: workers in several cities agitating against the same company, bypassing official unions controlled by the Communist Party and using social media to coordinate their actions — while the authorities largely stand aside.

Across China, Walmart employees have raised their fists at protests, chanting, “Workers, stand up!” They have appealed to local officials with patriotic fervor, invoking the struggles of Mao Zedong against foreign imperialists. They have posted screeds online against unkind bosses and “union puppets.”

In doing so, the Chinese work force of the world’s largest retail chain has put the ruling Communist Party in an uncomfortable position, publicly testing its Marxist commitment to defend the working class and pitting that against its fear of independent labor activism.

Ever since the Solidarity trade union helped topple Communist rule in Poland, Beijing has sought to prevent the emergence of a nationwide labor movement, suppressing efforts by workers to organize across industries or localities.

But the authorities appear to be hesitating in the case of Walmart, whose workers have complained of low wages and a new scheduling system they say has left them poorer and exhausted.

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In recent months, as many as 20,000 people, about a fifth of the company’s work force in China, have joined messaging groups set up by Mr. Wang and other activists on WeChat, a popular app. In these forums, they vent about company policies, share protest slogans and discuss plans to coordinate demonstrations for maximum effect.

Mr. Wang, a former customer service representative whom Walmart has fired twice, spends his days babysitting his granddaughter and trading messages with workers across the country, often as late as 2 a.m.

“What they’re doing is inhumane,” he said. “I want Walmart to return to the sympathetic company it used to be.”

Eli Friedman, a labor scholar at Cornell University, said the Walmart movement was “probably the most substantive example of sustained, cross-workplace, independent worker organizing we’ve ever seen in China’s private sector.”

The government appears to be keeping a distance because it is worried about provoking a backlash, or about acting on behalf of a prominent American company against Chinese workers at a time when nationalism in China is rising.

But by doing little or nothing, it risks encouraging disaffected workers elsewhere, especially at the growing number of national chain businesses with operations across China. Already, workers at Neutrogena stores and China Unicom, a state-owned telecom operator, have used similar tactics, while avoiding serious punishment.

“We can only expect that online organizing will continue to break down local barriers,” said Keegan Elmer, a researcher for China Labour Bulletin, an advocacy group based in Hong Kong.

The retail sector in particular has become a hotbed of worker activism. The government wants to shift growth from manufacturing to service industries, but many new jobs at restaurants, hotels and stores are low-paying or part-time.

From July through September, there were 124 strikes and protests at service-sector firms, about double the number last year, outpacing episodes in manufacturing for the first time since at least 2011, according to China Labour Bulletin.

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You Tianyu, 45, a Walmart employee in Shenzhen, wrote a letter to the president of the company to complain about working conditions. She said her bosses chastised her for speaking out.CreditLam Yik Fei for The New York Times

Chinese law requires businesses to establish labor unions, but they are almost always controlled by management, and companies generally use the unions to contain worker activism. In the face of labor strife, some businesses have offered back pay, bonuses and other benefits to workers.

But others, concerned that labor activism could force costly concessions, have resorted to tougher tactics, retaliating against those who help organize protests. At Walmart, some of the most vocal workers have been deprived of raises, reassigned, or in some cases fired, according to interviews with more than a dozen employees.

At one store in Zhongshan, west of Shenzhen, a labor activist said a supervisor photographed her in the bathroom as retribution for speaking out. She asked not be identified for fear of further antagonizing her bosses.

Much of the discontent stems from a new scheduling system that Walmart put in place this summer as a way, the company said, of giving workers more flexibility. Workers have argued that it has resulted in cuts to overtime pay and excessively long shifts, and some say they were coerced into signing new contracts agreeing to the system.

Walmart denied that it had treated its employees unfairly or had pressured them to accept the new schedules. Rebecca Lui, a spokeswoman, said that the vast majority of its work force supported the new system, and that employees were free to keep their old schedules.

“Our associates are our most valuable asset,” she said in a statement.

Zhai Xiuhua, a former greeter at a Walmart store in Shenzhen, said she was fired in September after leading a fight against the new scheduling system.

“I told them, ‘Even if you put a knife to my neck, I’ll never agree,’” she recalled at her home, where her uniform and identification badge — No. 14470 — still hang on the wall. Ms. Zhai, worried about medical bills, says she now hopes to find work in her hometown in the southwestern province of Sichuan.

Walmart, which has resisted unionization at its thousands of stores across the world, was forced by the government in 2006 to establish branches of the Communist Party-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions for its roughly 100,000 Chinese employees, part of a broader push by the party to unionize foreign businesses.

But union branches at many Walmart stores are under the thumb of store managers, and higher-level union officials appear torn about how to respond to complaints from workers like Ms. Zhai.

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A Walmart in Shenzhen. About 20,000 people, or a fifth of the work force at the company’s 400 stores in China, have joined groups on WeChat, a popular messaging app, to organize against the retailer.CreditLam Yik Fei for The New York Times

While union officials here in Guangdong Province have criticized Walmart for not seeking governmental approval for the new scheduling system, they have not taken more forceful action or helped mobilize workers.

Labor activists at Walmart have cited the ideals of President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party’s history of protecting workers, and experts said they appeared to be benefiting from a belief among some officials that the influence of foreign companies such as Walmart should be curtailed.

“If the Chinese authorities try to suppress the workers on behalf of Walmart,” said Wang Jiangsong, a Chinese labor scholar, “it will hurt the country’s image.”

When Walmart opened its first store in China in 1996, workers rushed to snap up jobs that paid more than those at Chinese competitors.

Now, some employees say, a Walmart job does not pay enough to comfortably support a family, with wages hovering around minimum wage, or about $300 a month. While Walmart has led a high-profile campaign in the United States to raise pay, salaries in China have remained largely stagnant, workers said, barely keeping pace with inflation.

Walmart has struggled to keep up with the fast-changing tastes of Chinese consumers and tried to re-energize its business by making investments in online retailers.

But the continuing labor unrest poses a potential hurdle.

You Tianyu, 45, a customer service employee at a Walmart store in Shenzhen, caught the attention of her supervisors in August when she wrote a letter to the president of Walmart, Doug McMillon, to complain about the company’s efforts to silence aggrieved workers.

Ms. You said her bosses now harassed her daily because she spoke out, and she has received a diagnosis of anxiety and depression.

She spends most of her nonworking hours rummaging through a mess of worker manifestoes, union laws and pay slips in her tiny apartment, hoping to find a new line of attack against Walmart.

“I’m on the verge of collapsing,” she said. “I don’t know how much longer I’ll last.”

Owen Guo contributed research.

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17th November 2016, 14:46

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Up to one million workers and citizens rallied in the Korean capitol Seoul in a national Peoples Rally November 12 to demand the immediate resignation of President Park Geun-hye. Over 150,000 trade unionists also held a Workers' Rally organized by the national center KCTU to highlight demands for the release of all imprisoned trade unionists and an end to the ongoing attacks on democratic rights and workers and their trade unions.

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17th November 2016, 19:45

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Korean unions are struggling against a government crackdown on labour rights. The administration of South Korean President Park oversaw police raids of trade unions’ offices and the arrest of hundreds of peaceful trade unionists.

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19th November 2016, 14:35

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Hotel housekeepers stand up around the world for rights, recognition and safe work in Global Action Week (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5226)

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Hotel housekeepers and their unions in 34 countries and over 50 cities around the world held a variety of actions to highlight their fight for rights, recognition and better working conditions during the IUF's 2nd Hotel Housekeepers Global Week of Action from October 31 to November 6.

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21st November 2016, 19:24

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In 2009 the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) invested $7.8 million into a new venture of tea plantations in India called the Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited (APPL). The goal was to empower workers, but years later, the group continues to overlook claims of labor abuse at APPL plantations.

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24th November 2016, 14:41

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Lufthansa pilots' strike hits bookings as more planes grounded

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Lufthansa pilots' strike hits bookings as more planes grounded

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Planes stand on the tarmac during a pilots strike of German airline Lufthansa at Frankfurt airport, Germany, November 23, 2016. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

By Peter Maushagen | FRANKFURT

A walkout by Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) pilots in a long-running pay dispute led to more flight cancellations on Thursday and hit bookings at one of Europe's biggest airlines.

Pilots represented by the Vereinigung Cockpit union began the three-day strike - their 14th since early 2014 - on Wednesday, prompting the grounding of almost 1,800 flights.

Lufthansa said it will scrap a further 830 short- and medium-haul flights on Friday, just over a quarter of its schedule, hitting more than 100,000 travelers. Most long-haul flights will be unaffected, it said.

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Over the three days, the strike action has disrupted the travel plans of more than 315,000 passengers.

Harry Hohmeister, a Lufthansa board member, said cancellations for the first two days of strike action had cost the airline about 20 million euros ($21 million) and customers were making fewer bookings.

"Not only have we suffered severe damage (from the strike), but we're also noticing from mid-term booking numbers that customer behavior is changing," Hohmeister said.

Shares in the company were down 0.4 percent at 1441 GMT (9:41 a.m. ET), underperforming German blue chips .GDAXI, which were up 0.1 percent.

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The union wants an average annual pay increase of 3.7 percent for 5,400 pilots in Germany over a five-year period from 2012. Lufthansa has offered 2.5 percent over six years to 2019.

The airline has urged the union to enter mediation, but the union said it first wants to see a better offer.

Lufthansa, led by CEO Carsten Spohr, insists that despite a record profit in 2015, it has no choice but to cut costs to compete with leaner rivals such as Ryanair (RYA.I) on short-haul and Emirates [EMIRA.UL] on long-haul flights.

It has already agreed deals with the main unions representing ground staff and cabin crew in Germany, leaving an agreement with its pilots outstanding.

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"From a shareholder perspective we would rate the efforts of management to make the company financially sustainable in the long term as more valuable, than the short term pain inflicted by the strikes," Commerzbank analysts said in a note.

Pilot strikes in 2014 cost Lufthansa 222 million euros, roughly 21 million euros per day, according to the IW Cologne Institute for Economic Research. In 2015, walkouts by pilots and cabin crew cost it 231 million euros, around 30 million per day.

Despite the row with its German pilots, Lufthansa is also moving forward with plans to expand lower cost operations, using a Eurowings unit based in Austria. It is in talks over bringing operations from Air Berlin and Brussels Airlines into the Eurowings platform.

The row is mirrored at rival Air France-KLM (AIRF.PA), which has also seen pilot strikes in France over plans to lower costs.

(Additional reporting and writing by Caroline Copley in Berlin; Editing by Alexander Smith)

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25th November 2016, 13:26

Settlement ends 14-week strike at South Africa's Robertson Winery

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The union did not achieve its wage target, but, says CSAAWU, "The wine industry will never be the same. Workers at the wine cellars across the country will take inspiration from what the Robertson Winery workers have achieved."

The union has expressed its warm appreciation for the significant international solidarity the workers received throughout the long struggle.

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25th November 2016, 13:38

PepsiCo workers in Pakistan are fighting for a union - and they need your support

PepsiCo workers in Pakistan are fighting for their right to have a trade union. The company has responded by harassing and threatening union officers, pressuring workers to leave the union and creating a bogus union.

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25th November 2016, 13:48

[email protected] #220 - Wave of support as Korean workers prepare for general strike

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As the #KoreaGeneralStrike approaches, solidarity actions are pouring in. Hundreds of unionists from Kyrgyzstan, Brazil, Germany, India, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, France, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Ukraine, the USA and Sweden have taken action, taking pictures of themselves holding signs in support of the general strike for workers rights and sharing the images on social media.

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26th November 2016, 12:50

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Following a tough recognition struggle and 14-week strike, CSAAWU, the union representing workers at Robertson Winery in the Western Cape, has reached a settlement which will see workers returning to work on November 28.

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30th November 2016, 15:11

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Rio de Janeiro faces violent demonstrations amid state of financial emergency

By Gabriel Lemos

30 November 2016

On November 22, Rio de Janeiro public sector workers held their third demonstration since Governor Luiz Carlos Pezão (PMDB—Brazilian Democratic Movement Party) announced a series of austerity measures in response to the state’s deepening economic crisis.

Among the measures, which were unveiled at the beginning of the month, are an increase in pension contributions from 11 percent to 14 percent, a wage freeze until 2020, the scrapping of social programs, such as a minimum income for poor families, food kitchens and rent assistance for the homeless, and an increase in bus fares and electricity rates.

These measures were aggravated by the state government’s decision to pay the October wages of 38 percent of public servants over seven installments ending on December 5. Pezão’s government has been delaying the wages of public servants since last year, when the economic crisis in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil as a whole intensified.

The austerity package is being discussed in the state’s Legislative Assembly, and the government expects a vote on it by the beginning of December. The Unified Movement of State Public Servants, which represents education, health, culture and security employees, has promised a general strike to prevent the Assembly’s approval of these measures.

The first two demonstrations were marked by violence. The first one, on November 8, with 10,000 public security employees—police, firefighters and prison guards—ended with the invasion of the Legislative Assembly by hundreds of demonstrators. The invasion was led by armed police officers, who occupied the Legislative Assembly for three hours shouting slogans against the governor and the Assembly’s president.

At the same time, they chanted slogans in support of the ultra-rightist federal deputy Jair Bolsonaro (PSC—Christian Social Party), a defender of Brazil’s former US-backed dictatorship and advocate of military rule.

One day after the invasion of the assembly, Governor Pezão abandoned one of the most controversial measures in the proposed austerity package, extracting a temporary 30 percent contribution from retired public employees to their pensions.

The second demonstration, on November 16, saw the participation of the security employees as well as thousands of teachers, health care workers and cultural employees. Even with the Legislative Assembly surrounded by two fences and guarded by both military police shock troops and the national security force, a group of demonstrators overturned the barriers and almost got inside.

The military police reacted violently with volleys of tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon, turning the area surrounding the Assembly into a battlefield. Two police officers protecting the building deserted their posts and were arrested.

Early that day, the public security workers held a rally in front of the Legislative Assembly with banners and a sound truck calling for the military to intervene. One police officer attending the demonstration said to the UOL website that “everyone here is in favor of a military intervention.”

With the arrival of the education employees at the demonstration carrying banners of their unions and various left parties, the security employees took down teachers’ banners and a conflict ensued. A security employee speaking on a sound truck asked for the teachers to “put the flags down, this is not a political movement. We have no party. We are public servants claiming our rights,” reported the UOL website.

The participation of the security employees, alongside public workers historically aligned with the left, such as teachers and health employees, in demonstrations against wage delays and the governor’s austerity package has sparked a heated discussion within Brazil’s pseudo-left layers on the class character of the police. The Morenoite tendencies—PSTU, MAIS and MES/PSOL—have a long record of defending police strikes, and all hailed the desertion of the two policemen as a “victory for the working class.” Henrique Carnary, of the PSTU split-off MAIS, proclaimed that “the police are temporary allies” in the struggle against the austerity measures.

Such a statement not only leaves aside the irreconcilable class interests dividing the police, the first line in the defense of capitalist property, and the working class, but also ignores the brutal police violence in Rio de Janeiro.

The police in Rio de Janeiro have the most lethal record of any police force in Brazil, the country with the highest number of police killings in the world. In 2015, there were 3,345 police killings nationwide, a 51 percent increase since 2013. By comparison, in the US last year there were 1,146 killed people by the police, and in Germany, 10.

At the same time, Rio de Janeiro is one of the most unequal states in Brazil, which is the 14th most unequal country in the world. In recent years, the southeast region of Brazil, which includes Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the most industrial region of the country, was the only one that saw an increase in inequality. It is also a region that has suffered more than 30 years of deindustrialization, in which the state of Rio de Janeiro is no exception.

Since the 1980s, Rio de Janeiro has been the state with the lowest growth rate in Brazil. What growth there was came mainly from royalties from the exploration of oil and gas by Brazil’s state-run energy giant Petrobras and others major oil companies, an industrial activity that grew 54 percent between 1985 and 2006, leaving the state’s economy largely dependent upon this sector. During this same period, the manufacturing industry in Rio de Janeiro declined by 39 percent.

With the fall in oil and gas prices, the state’s economic situation has gone from a surplus of 1.5 billion reais (US$440 million) in 2013 to an estimated deficit of 19 billion reais (US$5.6 billion) this year, turning it into the country’s most indebted state. In April, Rio de Janeiro’s public deficit was the equivalent of 201 percent of its GDP.

After the royalties from the gas and oil exploration, the second source of state revenue for Rio de Janeiro comes from state tax on the circulation of goods and services, which dropped 12 percent from 2014 to 2015, and 17 percent since last year. This drop was caused not only by the economic recession, but also by tax exemptions for large companies. From 2008 to 2013, these exemptions rose to 139 billion reais (US$40.7 billion), a figure that would pay the wages and pensions of 468,621 Rio de Janeiro public servants for more than five years.

Besides oil, construction, auto and beverage companies, the exemptions included H. Stern, Latin America’s leading jeweler. All these exemptions were made as part of a deeply corrupt system, which led last week to the jailing of former Rio de Janeiro governor Sérgio Cabral (PMDB). Governor from 2007 to 2014, Cabral is charged in connection with the Operation Car Wash (Operação Lava-Jato) investigation with a massive kickback scheme involving contracts between the state-run energy giant Petrobras, the state government and private construction companies.

Last June, a month before the Olympic games, Rio de Janeiro became the first state to declare a public financial emergency. On November 22, the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul followed suit, enabling it to delay debt payments and receive federal financial loans. After Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, 13 others Brazilian states may decree states of emergency over the coming weeks due to Brazil’s continuing economic crisis, the country’s deepest in a century.

The government of President Michel Temer (PMDB) is using the need of the states for federal loans to push through fiscal adjustments. Among the measures being demanded are increases in pension contributions and the imposition of limits on any increases in state social spending to the level of the previous year’s inflation for the next 10 years. President Temer has proposed a similar limit in federal social spending after last September’s impeachment of Dilma Rousseff (Workers Party—PT), but for a period of 20 years. The federal Senate is expected to vote on this cap in the coming weeks.

The situation facing public sector workers in Rio de Janeiro is similar to that confronting another 1.5 million public workers in 11 other states. The measures being presented by the state governments are only preparatory for broader counter-reforms that President Temer intends to present next year, including labor and pension reforms.

At the same time, the response of Rio de Janeiro public workers, and the police repression they have suffered in recent weeks, is an indication of tumultuous struggles that the Brazilian working class as a whole will face in the next period.

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1st December 2016, 13:02

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Unions around the world showed their solidarity with the general strike in Korea organized by the KCTU on November 30, including over 100 trade unionists from international and national trade union organizations who rallied in Geneva. The Korean union confederation is demanding an end to anti-union repression and the immediate resignation of President Park Guen-hye. Over 200,000 KCTU members took part in the strike.

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2nd December 2016, 13:34

[email protected] #221 - Massive global support for #KoreaGeneralStrike

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Struggling against the President Park’s attacks on labour rights in South Korea, unions in the country held a general strike for workers’ rights on 30 November. Deemed illegal by the Ministry of Employment and Labour, the strike still went ahead.

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2nd December 2016, 13:46

Pakistan: protest mass arrest of union members at Quetta Serena Hotel!

Pakistan: protest mass arrest of union members at Quetta Serena Hotel!

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The previous day, the union had held a rally at the Quetta Press Club to protest ongoing union-busting by management of the hotel. Workers reporting to work after the rally were issued disciplinary notices ('show cause') and refused entry to the hotel the next day. When union workers inside the hotel joined them outside to ask management why they were not allowed to work, instead of talking with the union management called the police, who made 63 arrests. The IUF is now assisting with their release on bail.

Since July 2015, the union has been requesting negotiations on proposals for a new collective agreement. Rather than negotiating with the workers' recognized bargaining representative, management signed an illegal agreement with a group of individual workers in October 2015 and began harassing union members and officers.

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[LaborTech] E.U. Court's Decision on Uber Will Set Precedent for the Gig Economy

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The future of digital capitalism is before the European Court of Justice, and their decision will affect the future of companies such as Airbnb or Foodora.

The European Court of Justice will decide whether Uber is a taxi transportation company or a digital platform. A Barcelona judge submitted the request for a decisive clarification for the future of platform capitalism in Europe. On Aug. 7, 2015, the judge referred the decision to the Luxembourg-based courts after a complaint of the Spanish company Elite Taxi against Uber.

The Spanish judge has asked the court "if the intermediation between the owner of a vehicle and the person who needs to travel within a city -- activities that [Uber] performs for a profit with the management of information technology resources, interfaces and application of computer programs like 'smartphones and technology platforms,' that allow people to get in touch -- should be considered as a mere transportation activity, or an electronic brokerage service or an information technology service."

The judgment won't come until at least March. If the court decides Uber is a transportation service, the multinational corporation, which is worth more than $60 billion, will have to comply with labor and safety laws and comply with the laws that regulate the activities of taxi companies and cooperatives. If, however, the court defines Uber as an "information technology company" or a digital platform that simply matches passenger demand with the supply of self-employed drivers, then the company can continue its "UberPop" service, which allows any driver to go into business as an unlicensed taxi.

Taxi drivers across Europe have risen against UberPop over the past two years. In some cases, they've won, as in Italy, where a Milan court ruling banned the service. The legal panorama is fragmented in Europe. In Spain, Ireland or France, it is believed that Uber should be treated as a transportation company. In the Netherlands -- where Uber's European headquarters is based -- as in Estonia, Iceland, Switzerland, Norway and Luxembourg, the company is defined as a platform that connects the passenger to the driver.

In Luxembourg, it will be decided if the "gig economy," the new capitalist economy of services on demand via smartphones, represents unfair competition against traditional services, since it does not have traditional labor costs.

The battle over the gig economy, which is often waged in defense of incomes, will define the next generation of work and the ability of governments to regulate it. Today those workers are in the shadows, paid through digital tools that have led to protests of bicycle messengers for Foodora in Turin, Italy, and Deliveroo in London and Paris. If the European Court of Justice defines Uber as a 'transportation company, it would enlarge the scope of the first instance judgment adopted by the Labor Court in London, which ordered Uber UK to hire 40,000 drivers.

In England, Uber drivers are not small business owners and do not perform a "gig" in their spare time to supplement their income. They are workers -- employees -- who must be paid the minimum wage, even if they have no protection against unfair dismissal. The pronouncement of Luxembourg on Uber's nature will, in effect, determine whether the British ruling will extend to the European Union.

While awaiting a report by the European Parliament on the "sharing economy," and the E.U. Commission's guidelines, the court's judgment would put in place more compelling rules for corporations like Airbnb and other brands in the gig economy.

The Californian ideology and the total automation dream conceals a secret: Work is not finite. To the contrary, there is always more and more work. But it is so invisible that nobody realizes they're going to have to pay for it.

Roberto Ciccarelli Originally published in Italian on November 30, 2016

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6th December 2016, 13:51

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PepsiCo workers in Pakistan continue fighting for their rights! (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5247)

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7th December 2016, 15:10

Kazakhstan: 5 years after a massacre, unions fight against repression

In recent years, and in particular following the Zhanaozen massacre in December 2011, the government of Kazakhstan has been limiting trade union rights and freedoms.

It is bringing various forms of pressure to bear upon trade union organisations and individual activists.

This relentless harassment has now peaked with the Kazakh authorities' decision to force through the dissolution of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of the Republic of Kazakhstan (KNPRK).

Please support the online campaign launched by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) which is demanding that President Nursultan Nazarbayev respect international law and human rights, and stop the attack on the country's trade unions.

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7th December 2016, 15:33

Australian unions beat back union-busting at AB InBev's Carlton United Breweries

Australian unions beat back union-busting at AB InBev's Carlton United Breweries

Six tough months on the picket line, with strong national and international support, have defeated brutal union-busting by management of Australian brewer Carlton United Breweries (http://iuf.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e788a43ccacc225abf8e6e748&id=96bc43c166&e=090f0b0646), now owned by brewery giant AB InBev. In July, union maintenance workers at the company's Melbourne brewery were told their jobs would be outsourced to a new contractor but they could return to work as employees of the subcontractor - with a 65% pay cut! Unions and management have now concluded an agreement providing for: all workers who wish to return to work to do on their original union pay and conditions; any new contractor must meet the existing conditions; and no involuntary redundancies.

The AMWU describes the settlement as an 'enormous win' which defeated the company's attempt to use contractors to slash union-negotiated pay and conditions, and has warmly thanked all who supported the workers by sending messages to the company.

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8th December 2016, 15:01

Stop the EU from Endorsing Forced Labor

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Dear Chris,

Uzbek citizens have just returned from their compulsory work in cotton fields. The Government of Uzbekistan still operates the world's largest forced labor system of cotton production, but in less than a week, the European Parliament is likely to approve a textile treaty with Uzbekistan to expand trade in cotton made with forced labor.

The E.U. should be protecting consumers from purchasing this tainted cotton, not opening up markets for it by signing deals with a government that perpetuates forced labor! We made a video with our allies at the Uzbek German Forum for Human Rights explaining the ongoing human rights violations in the Uzbek cotton harvest. Take a moment to watch the video (https://laborrights.z2systems.com/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=laborrights&emailId=54e4b42812cb3e331c211b95a59d02815m93580655 4e&secureId=OF4U7VVi3j%2Bb9XQY7V8TlQ%3D%3D&linkId=13374&targetUrl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeV79s1koo&feature=youtu.be), and share it with the EU Parliament on Facebook (https://laborrights.z2systems.com/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=laborrights&emailId=54e4b42812cb3e331c211b95a59d02815m93580655 4e&secureId=OF4U7VVi3j%2Bb9XQY7V8TlQ%3D%3D&linkId=13366&targetUrl=https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeV79s1koo%26feature=youtu.be) and Twitter (https://laborrights.z2systems.com/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=laborrights&emailId=54e4b42812cb3e331c211b95a59d02815m93580655 4e&secureId=OF4U7VVi3j%2Bb9XQY7V8TlQ%3D%3D&linkId=13362&targetUrl=https://twitter.com/home?status=.%40EP_Trade%20should%20delay%20decisi on%20on%20textile%20deal%20with%20%23Uzbekistan%20 until%20all%20evidence%20of%20%23forcedlabor%20is% 20gathered!%20https%3A//www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeV79s1koo%26feature=youtu.be) to encourage parliamentarians to delay the vote!

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The European Parliament has postponed this vote since 2011 due to the egregious human rights violations committed by the Uzbek Government. Now, it is set to approve the deal without even waiting for full reports from the 2016 harvest to come in. This is an irresponsible shift that turns a blind eye to the ongoing problems with the Uzbek cotton harvest.

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8th December 2016, 15:12

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Unions, civil society groups call for political mobilization to reject CETA (http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5253)

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 02:50 AM PST

The IUF, our sister international Public Services International (PSI) and many trade unions on both sides of the Atlantic including IUF affiliates are among the more than 450 organizations which have issued a call to legislators to reject the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada (click here to read the letter and the list of signatories (http://www.s2bnetwork.org/european-canadian-civil-society-groups-call-rejection-ceta/)).

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10th December 2016, 15:29

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17th December 2016, 15:20

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The protest took place in June this year outside the Korean-owned SAE-A Tecnotex garment factory, in an export processing zone - Zona Franca Senika - in Tipitapa, near the capital Managua.

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17th December 2016, 17:37

Stop the criminalization of labour protest in Nicaragua - free the jailed workers

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In Nicaragua, twelve workers are awaiting sentencing, and could receive up to three years in prison, for protesting against the dismissal of union representatives.

The workers were arrested in June 2016 when riot police stormed a peaceful protest outside the Korean-owned SAE-A Tecnotex factory in a free trade zone in Tipitapa.

The union leaders were dismissed after raising concerns about drinking water and production targets.

IndustriALL has launched a global campaign demanding that the criminalization of labour protest in Nicaragua stop, and that the jailed workers be released.

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NUMSA Statement on its 10th National Congress

Irvin Jim

South Africa's biggest trade union, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, held its 10th National Congress from 12-15 December 2016 in Cape Town. This statement was written on 7 December.

1. This ‘Workers’ Parliament’ could not be meeting at a more critical time for the world working class in general and the South African working class in particular. All over the world, the workers are under attack from employers who, as always, are making us, the working class, pay for their global crisis of monopoly capitalism. They are destroying jobs, cutting wages, attacking trade unions and reducing spending on essential social services.

National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
2. The foundation of South African racist capitalism is the super-exploitation, impoverishment and unemployment of, and extreme racial inequalities against, the majority black and African working class. The ongoing global crisis of the capitalist system simply worsens these already pre-existing horrible conditions of the black and African working class. Congress will be sending a clear warning that unless these are urgently attended to, the country is headed for a violent class and racial confrontation, as so many voices have warned already.

3. Jobs, especially in manufacturing, are becoming ever more precarious. Whole industries like steel are in danger of disappearing, throwing thousands more on to the streets. The shocking employment statistics released on 22 November 2016 confirm beyond any doubt that South Africa's economy is in deep crisis. Unemployment rose to a record 27.1% in the third quarter of 2016 – up from 26.6% in the second quarter and the highest since 2003!

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High Unemployment

4. The expanded rate, which includes those who did not look for work, dropped, but only by a tiny 0.1 percentage point to 36.3%. South Africa now has the highest unemployment rate among more than 60 emerging and developed countries.

5. Of particular concern to Numsa's members is that the manufacturing sector suffered the most job losses – 91,000. Quite apart from the human misery this level of unemployment causes, it adds up to a colossal waste of potential for the 5.8-million unemployed people to create wealth and to supply essential goods and deliver services to the poor.

6. An inevitable consequence of these levels of unemployment is that employed workers will have more unemployed family members to support from their meagre wages. The pathetic proposed R3500 minimum wage will do virtually nothing to improve this lack of income for millions of South Africans, especially in those households where nobody has a job. It also encourages employers to bully their workers into even worse levels of exploitation, using the threat of the sack to quell any resistance.

7. What makes all this even worse is the country's white racist capitalism's grotesque level of inequality. An international survey of CEOs’ pay by Bloomberg revealed that South African CEOs (who are still predominantly white and male) are the seventh-highest paid in the world – receiving more than those in Norway, Spain, Australia, France and Japan. These, like the six with higher-paid CEOs, are all rich countries in which the working class is far better off than in SA.

8. This shows that South Africa is now by far the most unequal society in the world. CEO's pay exceeded that of the average person by a greater ratio than in any of the 25 countries Bloomberg measured. The income of the average CEO is 541 times more the income of an average South African, as measured by the gross domestic product per person. Only second-placed India, with a differential of 483 times comes anywhere close to SA's.

9. The most important conclusion from these horrifying statistics on unemployment and inequality, which will be drawn by delegates to next week's Numsa Congress, is that both are an inherent feature of the racist monopoly capitalist system, based on the super-exploitation of the African working class.

10. This crisis also makes building strong unions more vital than ever and the National Congress will be a platform for Numsa members to plot a fight-back strategy, to build a powerful, united army of workers to resist the horrendous levels of unemployment, poverty and unemployment and to fight for a living wage.

COSATU Moves to the Right

11. Delegates however will not forget that they will be meeting just two years since Numsa was expelled from the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), because of our opposition to the federation leadership's move to the right, which saw it become a mouthpiece for an ANC/SACP government which had abandoned the Freedom Charter in favour of an unbridled neoliberal, free-market white monopoly capitalist system.

12. The COSATU leadership has colluded with the ANC neoliberal government around the national minimum wage. Numsa regards Cyril Ramaphosa's proposal for R3500 a month as a legitimization of slavery wages, which would leave millions in poverty but safeguard the interests of the exploiting capitalist class.

13. All this has left workers even more impatient to replace the now totally discredited and ideologically bankrupt COSATU with a new anti-imperialist, socialist, democratic, independent, militant workers’ federation. Numerous new breakaway unions have been formed and we are working with them in the Steering Committee for a New Federation.

We have warmly welcomed Fawu's historic decision to leave COSATU. The latest Numsa Central Committee agreed that we must continue to discuss with larger unions like Amcu, some other Nactu affiliates, and some COSATU affiliates who were part of ‘The Nine’ which have still to commit to the new federation.

14. The ANC is in a massive crisis, over the split around whether President Jacob Zuma should resign. Numsa delegates next week will remember that three years ago Numsa became the first to make the same demand, at its Special National Congress (SNC) in 2013. It called for “President Jacob Zuma to resign with immediate effect because of his administration's pursuit of neoliberal policies such as the NDP, e-tolls, labour brokers, youth wage subsidy and the track record of his administration which is steeped in corruption, patronage and nepotism.”

15. The evidence for this corruption and looting of state resources was clear then and has grown over the past three years. We have been uncompromising in condemning the bribers and looters, but have always said that Zuma's resignation will not in itself change anything fundamental. Zuma and the Gupta family are no worse than hundreds of other capitalists and state functionaries who get rich through corruption, embezzlement and crime, but they are just the most blatant, crude and, to the ruling class, most embarrassing examples.

16. “It is the whole capitalist system which is immoral and corrupt” said Numsa in its 13 September 2016 statement:

“Reports appear regularly of systematic tax evasion, money-laundering and price-fixing by big business. Millions of rands are leaving the country as investors put their cash where they will make the quickest and biggest profits, with no regard for the welfare of the people, the environment and least of all the conditions of their workers who produce the wealth in the first place. Big business is immorally sitting on more than R1.5-trillion in the banks and refusing to invest it in the economy... Capitalism is immorality and corruption, period.”

17. We shall campaign for the transformation of this trillion rand retirement industry, so that we use that money, which comes from the workers, in the interests of workers and the working class.

18. Numsa will not be joining the chorus demanding that Zuma must be replaced by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is portrayed as a representative of clean, constitutional and honest capitalism. Numsa can never support a capitalist exploiter who is seeking to protect his own huge investments and the interests of white monopoly capital by trying to send a message to the monopoly capitalist rating agencies that the South African economy will continue to be based on the ‘free market’, and the super-exploitation of black and African labour and that this should provide solid reasons why the country should be not be down-graded.

19. We are convinced nothing can reverse the decline of the ANC/SACP/COSATU alliance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Alliance).

20. The South African working class, especially the black and African working class, is crying out for revolutionary change, but sees that currently no party is capable of bringing this about. The African National Congress (ANC), Democratic Alliance (DA) and most of the other parties are basically the same, because of their continued insistence of operating within the confines of white monopoly capitalism.

Mass-Based Workers’ Vanguard Party

21. This gives us the opportunity to build the genuine revolutionary socialist political party, rooted in the working class, which was agreed to at the union's 2013 SNC, whose view of the degeneration of the ANC, SACP and COSATU has been vindicated by subsequent events.

22. Congress is sure to insist that we move swiftly, and more visibly, to build a democratically controlled, mass-based workers’ vanguard party, with a programme based on Marxism-Leninism, the dictatorship of the proletariat and the abolition of capitalism, so that workers have an alternative party to represent their interests.

23. Congress will call for the full implementation of the Freedom Charter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Charter)'s call for the national wealth of our country, the heritage of all South Africans, to be restored to the people, for the mineral wealth beneath the soil, the banks and monopoly industry to be transferred to the ownership of the people as a whole and for all other industry and trade to be controlled to assist the well-being of the people. Although not a specifically socialist document, it contains many calls which the new party must incorporate as transitional demands into its socialist programme, alongside our central demand for the democratic nationalization of monopoly industries, mineral wealth and the banks.

24. The Congress will also want to revisit the post 1994 South African constitution which ensured that South Africa's white racist capitalist colonial ownership of the economy continued, with a few black faces being co-opted, to guarantee imperialist and white control of the economy and society of South Africa. The post 1994 South African constitution guarantees that white monopoly capital and the white population still own and control the land and the economy and keep the African majority at the bottom of the food chain – economically marginalized and dispossessed.

25. Next week's National Congress will be an historic opportunity for Numsa members to launch a counter-offensive, to fight for a living minimum wage, oppose any limitation on the right of workers to strike, take forward the campaign for a new workers’ federation and proclaim the birth of the new revolutionary workers’ party.

26. Congress will debate and decide on organizational campaigns to fight head-on attempts by employer organizations such as NEASA to liquidate centralized bargaining and destroy bargaining councils.

27. As a Marxist-Leninist inspired trade union, we expect our Congress in Cape Town to emerge with active international solidarity campaigns to confront the logic of transnational companies and the imperialist agenda.

28. We remain convinced that the working class will always be victims of the ruling class unless they learn to link the fight to end white racist monopoly control of land, the economy and society and therefore end racism, and their fight for a living wage to the struggle for freedom from colonial and white monopoly capitalism and for the socialist transformation of society, nothing much will come out of their struggles!

29. We wish all Congress delegates a safe trip to and from Congress! •

Irvin Jim is the General Secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (http://www.numsa.org.za/) (NUMSA).

Secretariat International Report pdf slides (http://www.numsa.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/International-report-slides-1.pdf).

Related Reading

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Zuma's Denialism and Betrayal
Zwelinzima Vavi | 2016-05-17

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Patrick Bond | 2016-03-28

South African Student Protesters Win First Big Victory
Patrick Bond | 2015-11-02

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19th December 2016, 19:20

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22nd December 2016, 14:57

Stop the attack on trade unionism at the University of São Paulo

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Workers and their supporters fought off an attempt to evict the union from their offices in April.

Now, during the December holiday period, Zago got a judicial order to expel the union from their offices, by means of the police and military if necessary.

Management has also fired trade union leaders and has brought numerous absurd legal proceedings against SINTUSP leaders and militants.

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27th December 2016, 14:08

[LaborTech] Unusual Features of China’s Walmart Workers’ Resistance And The Internet

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Labour struggles: Unusual Features of China’s Walmart Workers’ Resistance

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China has experienced an increasing number of strikes in the last few years. Among them, the Walmart workers’ protest that is now in its third month marks a new stage in post-Mao labour history. The protest exhibits a number of special features. First, while all of the strikes so far have taken place at single workplaces, coordinated strikes erupted at the same time this year at four Walmart stores in different cities. Second, these strikes, as well as protests at many other Walmart stores, were initiated and organized by workers themselves without prior contact with any labour NGOs. Third, the protests have been coordinated through the internet, using an on-line platform set up by two Chinese Walmart workers in 2014, The founders gave it a low-key benign name “Walmart China Workers’ Association” (WCWA). The two men serve as coordinators of blogs and chat rooms, with the intention of providing a platform for workers to exchange information, particularly on legal knowledge. The internet discussions have given workers a sense of collective identity as Walmart workers. Though the network does not have any formal organizational structure, it is has become a powerful organizing tool.

A question has to be asked: why is it that since almost all Chinese workers now have mobile phones, other protests and strikes in China tend to take place at single workplaces. The difference is that Walmart workers have an unusual sense of common identity since the problems they face at Walmart stores are very similar to the minutest details. This identity is a product of Walmart’s unique corporate structure and management method and style. Walmart through the years has always tried to build up a personality cult around its founder, Sam Walton. All stores have the same organization structure, the same number of hierarchical levels, the same rules and regulations, all workers are given an English name, and they all have to scream the same Walmart Cheer in unison every day and have the same message drummed into them they are “Walmart persons.” (沃爾瑪人). Even though many of the workers harbour a host of grievances against the company’s authoritarian management practices and low wages, they do think of themselves as Walmart workers. Walmart’s socialization process works, though not in the way Walmart would like it. This Walmart identity is also found in the United States. The American Walmart workers who organize themselves in a protest group call their association “Our Walmart”. In China, WCWA members have all shared similar experiences and speak the same Walmart language.

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Walmart Workers in China Went on Strike to Protest New Schedules（Walmart Employees Association/Sina Weibo)

What sparked the Walmart strikes is a new company policy. In mid-May Walmart announced that it was going to use a “generalized work hour system”, which is very similar to American Walmart’s “open work hour system.” This allows extreme work hour flexibility. The Chinese Walmart workers were mortified. This would mean regular work hours are thrown out of the window and workers have to come to work anytime on call. Suddenly WCWA’s membership jumped to 10,000.

WCWA is not the first effort to organize workers at China Walmart. In 2006, Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the biggest union in the US, was launching an international campaign against Walmart, and for its own reasons China’s official union, the ACFTU, was receptive. That year the ACFTU was under strong pressure from the Chinese government to deal with a rising number of strikes in the country. To gain influence among the workers, he ACFTU decided to do what it had not done since the 1950s: organize workers. The ACFTU experimented with organizing Walmart workers “underground”. In less than two months, without Walmart’s knowledge, the ACFTU was able to set up close to twenty democratically elected Walmart union branches. But after

the ACFTU publicized what it had done and demanded that, under Chinese law, Walmart must accept the union branches, Walmart cut a deal with the ACFTU. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed with Walmart to set up union branches in all of Walmart’s 100-plus stores with Walmart’s active participation. Since then, Walmart union branches have been staffed by Walmart human resource (HR) managers.

Nevertheless, the initial 2006 spate of democratic union-branch elections had unintended consequences. Workers who had participated in those elections and are still working in Walmart stores want to get back their union. Not surprisingly, the main labour activists today in the WCWA are in their mid-forties. Other Walmart workers know that their own stores have union branches and they have some idea about trade unionism, even if their branches are being chaired by Walmart’s managerial staff. As wages and work conditions declined at Walmart, a few of them have tried to run for union election. Walmart management, with the tacit support of the official local unions, put all types of obstacles in their way.

In its campaign WCWA is very insistent in pursuing the ACFTU at national, provincial and city levels to support them in the fight against Walmart, because ten years ago they had helped workers set up democratic workplace union branches.

Pressured by the WCWA, People’s Daily and the Guangdong Provincial Trade Union announced that retailers such as Walmart are not eligible to use the comprehensive working hour system. But district-level trade unions and labour inspection offices continue to ignore these announcements. This is because in the Chinese political structure, their real superior is the local government, which is interested in attracting foreign investments and thus colludes with factory owners. But the two announcements gave the Walmart workers’ struggle legitimacy. Right now the activist workers are bringing their cases to court. WCWA is calling on the international labour community to support them in fighting this battle.

Anita Chan

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* https://borderless-hk.com/2016/12/21/unusual-features-of-chinas-walmart-workers-resistance/

* Anita Chan, a specialist on Chinese labour issues, is editor of The China Journal and a visiting research fellow at the Australian National University. She has published nine books and more than a hundred academic articles about China. Her books include, as editor, Walmart in China, Cornell University Press, 2011. anita.chan @ anu.edu.au

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1st January 2017, 14:32

[LaborTech] French workers get the ‘right to disconnect’ from emails after hours under new law

French workers get the ‘right to disconnect’ from emails after hours under new law

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A new law in France starting New Year’s Day will allow workers "the right to disconnect” from their smartphones and from checking work emails after hours.

The new law corresponds to companies with more than 50 employees, and it is intended to tackle the “always-on” work culture, which leads to overtime as well as an intrusion in their private lives outside the office.

French workplace expert Xavier Zunigo told the Guardian that the law might not appeal to most workers because they don’t want to lose the "autonomy and flexibility” technology offers them.

According to the BBC, France has had 35-hour work weeks since 2000.

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The law was first introduced in 2015 when French's labor minister Myriam El Khomri issued a report warning that “info-obesity” could cause health problems.

A U.S. study, “Exhausted But Unable to Disconnect,” authored by three university professors, showed that not only does checking emails causes stress, but the anticipation of receiving an answer.

“What we find is that people who feel they have to respond to emails on their off hours become emotionally exhausted, partially because they can’t detach from work,” Colorado State University Prof. Samantha Conroy said in the study.

“They are not able to separate from work when they go home, which is when they are supposed to be recovering their resources.”

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3rd January 2017, 13:38

Pakistan: arrested Quetta Serena Hotel unionists back at work

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When sixty-three members and officers of the IUF-affiliated Quetta Serena Hotel Union were arrested on November 30 for peacefully gathering in front of the hotel after union members were denied entry, thousands of you responded quickly to our appeal to send messages.

We are happy to report that all 63 are back at work with no disciplinary charges and no loss of pay and that management has not pressed charges. The provincial High Court has overturned an earlier labour court decision instigated by the hotel management banning union activity at the hotel and the union is pressing ahead with its demand for negotiations on a collective agreement which it has been requesting since July 2015.

Through the IUF, the union has warmly thanked all supported the ongoing fight for their rights.

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4th January 2017, 14:47

Healthcare Workers in Chiapas (Mexico) Score Important First Victory, Pledge to Continue Struggle to Repeal Privatizing "Healthcare Reform Law"

156 Healthcare Workers in the Region of Palenque, Chiapas (Mexico), Reinstated in Their Jobs!

"It's a Victory of Workers' Solidarity at the Local, National and International Levels!"

By RUSSELL AGUILAR BRINDIS and MISAEL PALMA

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Chiapas, Mexico -- On December 20, 2016, the officials of the Ministry of Health in the southeastern state of Chiapas announced that 156 striking healthcare workers in the region of Palenque, who had been fired for protesting against the privatization-destruction of Mexico's public healthcare system, would be immediately reinstated in their jobs, with full back pay.

These workers had walked off their jobs on May 23 and organized themselves into a "Permanent General Assembly" to press their demands.

The Chiapas health officials also announced that the hospitals in Palenque and neighboring towns, as well as the medical outposts in the indigenous communities, would henceforth be fully stocked with medicines and medical supplies, as the striking workers had demanded.

The leaders of the resistance movement in Palenque hailed this "victory of workers' solidarity at the local, national and international levels." And they are absolutely right: It was a victory won because of the combativity of the union rank and file in the Palenque region and because of the widespread support their militant stance received from labor and community organizations across Mexico and internationally -- the latter mainly through the international solidarity campaign waged by the organizers of the Mumbai World Conference Against War, Exploitation and Precarious Labour.

How did this victory come about?

On May 15, a powerful teachers' strike broke out in Chiapas and other states of the Mexican Republic. On May 23, a General Assembly of Healthcare Workers of the Palenque Region was held. Encouraged by the teachers' strike, the leadership of the Healthcare Workers Union (Section 50) in Chiapas held a "Regional General Assembly to analyze the situation and put forward [their] list of demands." This is the form that the regional work stoppage had to take given the refusal by the national leadership of the parent union -- the National Union of Healthcare Workers (SNTSSA) -- to take any action in opposition to the "Healthcare Reform Law" enacted by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, a law that dismantles the public healthcare system (IMSS and ISSSTE) in Mexico.
But when the state leadership of Section 50 pulled back from the resistance struggle and refused to continue the General Assembly, under pressure from the national leaders of SNTSSA, the 600-plus workers in Palenque stood their ground and voted overwhelmingly to continue the work stoppage and to establish a Permanent General Assembly. In the process, they elected a Council of Representatives to organize their fight.

No sooner had they decided to continue the work stoppage than the Chiapas state authorities decided to repress the workers, first firing nine workers, and then extending the list of fired workers to 156. In this effort they had the tacit support of the state and national leaders of the SNTSSA union. In all cases the workers' wages and rights were suspended.

But then an intense, eight-month working class resistance struggle was unleashed!

Fired from their jobs, without wages and without rights, the Palenque healthcare workers immediately sought the support of their labor allies and communities: In July, they organized a plantón, or sit-in, in front of the Ministry of Health in Tuxtla Gutierrez, the Chiapas state capital. In August, they took over the union building of Section 50. On September 15 (the celebration of Mexico's Independence from Spain), they joined with thousands of townspeople in Palenque and forced the mayor to step down from delivering the famous "Grito" -- or cry of independence. The townspeople took over the podium of the Municipal Palace and gave their own Alternative "Grito."

The same month of September, the Palenque healthcare workers attended the Conference for a New Trade Union Federation (Nueva Central de Trabajadores, or NCT) in Tuxtla Gutiérrez. There, they reported on their struggle against the privatization of Mexico's public healthcare sector to the gathering of striking workers in the CNTE wing of the national teachers' union, the workers of the COBACH (technical high schools), the Electrical Workers Union (SME), the National Telephone Workers Union, and others. A Commission of the SME agreed at the meeting to present the case of the Palenque workers to the national interim leadership of the NCT.

At about this time, the Organizing Committee of the Mumbai World Conference launched an international labor solidarity campaign in support of the embattled healthcare workers, sending Mumbai Organizing Committee member Alan Benjamin from the United States to speak at a September 25 Solidarity Rally in Palenque attended by an estimated 300 people.

On November 20, the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, the fighting healthcare workers marched alongside various sectors of the labor and popular movements in Palenque. On December 2, they occupied the office of the Director of the General Hospital in Palenque, insisting on a meeting with the director. On December 3, they blocked access to the important Archaeological Zone of Palenque. On December 12, they took their banners and their families to the holiday party (pre-Posada) organized by the Executive Committee of Section 50.

A few days earlier, they had sent a delegation to the National Assembly in Defense of Social Security (ANDSS) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, after which another National Assembly was held in Palenque. The healthcare workers also took their case to an assembly of the Coordinating Committee in Defense of Pemex [Mexico's public oil sector - Tr. Note] in Veracruz. In addition, with the financial support of the workers of the SNTE-CNTE and the OPT (Political Organization of the People and Workers), they printed thousands of posters with their demands.

It was thanks to all these mobilizations, and all the support they received over these eight months, that the political pressure on the state officials in Chiapas was so strong that the government decided to cut its losses and meet the immediate demands of the strikers: reinstatement with back pay of all fired workers and full provisioning of medicines and medical supplies to all hospitals and medical outposts in the Palenque region.
The December 20 announcement by the Chiapas healthcare officials represents a huge victory at a time when Mexican workers are being fired massively at the Postal Service, Pemex, and the System of Drinking Water (Agua Potable). Strengthened by this first victory, the Palenque workers are now preparing to continue their struggle in defense of the public healthcare system and for the repeal of Peña Nieto's so-called Healthcare Reform Law. They will surely be present at the upcoming National Congress of the NCT and in the Workers Gathering of the Southeast, in Veracruz, called by the oil workers.

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Message of the Palenque Healthcare Workers to the Mumbai Open World Conference

November 16, 2016
Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico

Message to the Open World Conference
"Against War, Exploitation and Precarious Labour"
Mumbai, India (November 18-20, 2016)

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

Workers of the Ministry of Health in the region of Palenque, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, who have been in resistance [on strike - Tr. Note] since mid-May of this year send fraternal greeting to the participants in the Mumbai Open World Conference. We share the objectives of the Conference and wish it full success.

At the same time, we ask for your solidarity with our struggle by joining us to demand the immediate reinstatement, with full back pay, of the 156 workers in the Palenque region who have been fired from their jobs because they took strike action to oppose the process of privatization of the healthcare sector in our country, which has resulted in the lack of medicines and healthcare supplies in our region and across Mexico.

The firing of 156 striking healthcare workers and the suspension of their wages is the manner in which the repression by the State is exercised against workers who dare to fight to demand the rights, medicines, and supplies needed for them to carry out their work.

We are all Palenque!

Signed/

Melquiades Velueta
Member of the Executive Council of the Subsection of Palenque
Section 50 of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (SNTSSA)
Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico

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Healthcare Activists Mobilize Across Mexico on October 23 to Defend their National Public Healthcare Systems
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers in 70 cities across Mexico staged marches and rallies to demand the repeal of the "Sistema Universal de Salud" (Universal Healthcare System) -- a healthcare privatization law enacted by the government of Enrique Peña Nieto at the behest of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Everywhere banners could be seen calling for the defense and improvement of the national public healthcare institute (IMSS) and the public sector workers' healthcare system (ISSSTE).

In the town of Palenque, in the state of Chiapas, the local chapter of Section 50 of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (SNTSSA) has been out on strike since May 23 to press for their community's healthcare demands [see accompanying story]. Marches and rallies were held in five other towns in Chiapas and across Mexico's southeast region in support of the striking healthcare workers under the banner of #TodosSomosPalenque (We Are All Palenque).
Messages of support were sent to the rallies in Chiapas and Mexico City from the organizers in India of the Mumbai Open World Conference Against War, Privatization and Precarious Labor, as well as from healthcare unions and officers in France, Germany, Canada and the United States (where the California Nurses Association, the National Union of Healthcare Workers, and Labor for Single Payer Healthcare national organizer Mark Dudzic, among many others, sent solidarity messages). [See Messages below.]

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MESSAGES FROM THE UNITED STATES

Message from Mark Dudzic, National Coordinator, Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare

Brothers and Sisters:

We stand in solidarity with you in your fight against the privatization policies of the Sistema Universal de Salud. Workers in the United States understand all too well the horrific consequences to the security and well being of our families when healthcare is treated as a commodity rather than as a public good.

The United States labor movement has declared that, "Healthcare is a fundamental human right and an important measure of social justice." Privatization and profiteering in a healthcare system negates these fundamental principles of human rights. And privatization often is preceded by undermining and underfunding public programs so that their failure becomes the rationale for selling off the public's goods to multi-national corporations.

It is important that workers everywhere draw the line against these encroachments and begin to build movements strong enough to win expanded and improved public healthcare for everyone. We stand with you in this fight. Your victory will be an inspiration to workers everywhere.

In Solidarity.
Mark Dudzic
National Coordinator
Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare

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Message from the Leadership of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW)

Dear Friends,

We write today as your sisters and brothers of the National Union of Healthcare Workers in the United States to express our profound support for your struggle to save healthcare for all in Mexico. We recognize and salute the healthcare workers who have been on strike for months.

Healthcare should be a fundamental right throughout the world. It should be part of the social responsibility of every government. Corporations should not be permitted to profit off people's lives.

Estamos con ustedes en la lucha! Hasta la victoria!
(We are with you in the struggle, till victory!)

signed/

Phyllis Willett
Director of Operations
National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW)

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Message from the Leadership of National Nurses United

From National Nurses United to the October 23 National March in Defense of the Public Healthcare System and Social Security in Mexico

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

National Nurses United (NNU - United States), by means of the National Assembly of Nurses of Mexico (ANEM), congratulates the doctors in Mexico on this day and sends a fraternal greeting to all healthcare workers, trade union and social organization, as well as to the public at large, with our congratulations for the combative mobilization on October 23 in defense of public healthcare and Social Security in Mexico.
In your struggle, you can count on the support and solidarity of the nurses in the United States. Su lucha es nuestra lucha. Your struggle is our Struggle!

October 23,2016

Signed/
Deborah Burger
RN, Co-President_National Nurses United

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BACKGROUND
Striking Healthcare Workers in Chiapas (Mexico) Need Our Urgent Support!

On Sunday, September 25, an estimated 300 trade unionists and activists gathered at a rally in the auditorium of the Palenque (Chiapas) chapter of Section 50 of the National Healthcare Workers Union of Mexico (SNTSSA). The Palenque chapter and the local chapters in three other cities in the state of Chiapas have been out on strike for 126 days to demand a halt to the healthcare "counter-reform" law aimed at privatizing healthcare in Mexico.

In Palenque the implementation of this law has led to the drastic reduction of medicines and medical supplies for patients, with the request that patients help cover the costs of these scarce items -- when all healthcare at the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) and at ISSSTE (for government workers) has been free up till now.

The striking healthcare workers were joined by public school teachers from Section 40 of the National Teachers Union, or SNTE-CNTE. Nine speakers addressed the gathering, including Russell Aguilar Brindis, who is well known in Palenque and throughout Chiapas as one of the founders of the national CNTE dissident wing of the teachers' union. The CNTE is the leadership of the union in four states and has large caucuses in all other states across Mexico.

Also, among those assembled was a contingent of Ch'ol indigenous people from the "comunidades de base." As a result of the healthcare "counter-reform," they have received no medicines or supplies for the past six months at their outposts, and their children are dying. Many of them walked up to six hours to the main roads, where they took buses or jumped on trucks to get to the rally.

The situation facing the striking healthcare workers in the Palenque region is dire. Nine workers have been fired for waging an "illegal work stoppage." Forty-five others have had their bimonthly wages terminated. And the state government is threatening to fire large numbers of other workers, and to stop all wage payments, if the workers don't put an end to their strike.

A Rich and Far-Reaching Discussion

Alan Benjamin, a trade union activists from the United States and member of the Organizing Committee of the Mumbai Conference Against War, Exploitation and Precarious Labor, was invited to address the Palenque rally as a keynote speaker. He explained the severe downsides to the U.S. healthcare system, which is based on the U.S. private-insurance model. The Mexican government, in the name of "healthcare reform" and the creation of "universal healthcare," is seeking to impose the U.S. model and to destroy the Mexican public healthcare system.

Because the rally participants were convinced that only the working class, at a national and international level, is capable of forcing the bosses and the government to bend to their demands, the assembly issued an International Appeal addressed to workers and their organizations in Mexico and internationally, calling on them to support the struggle of the healthcare workers in Chiapas. [See appeal below.]

In the rally speeches and in the discussion that ensued, many speakers commented on the agreement recently reached between the federal government and the CNTE teachers' union after four months of strike. This was a militant strike against the privatization of public education waged in four states across Mexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Michoacán) that was violently repressed by the authorities, most notably in the Oaxacan town of Nochixtlán, where 13 teachers and supporters were killed and dozens were injured by the army and police.

The 11-point agreement includes the decision to not implement the education "reform" until after 2018, when a new president is to take office. Other points include hiring more teachers, increasing the education budget, freeing all detained teachers, dropping all legal and other charges against the striking teachers and concerned parents, and creating "round-tables" with the union to discuss ways to "improve" the proposed education "counter-reform." This last point was hotly contested by many of the participants in the rally, as it would involve having the union forfeit its independence and accept the basic framework of the education "counter-reform."
It is precisely because the question of the independence of the trade unions was posed that the participants in the Palenque rally agreed to endorse the Mumbai Conference Against War, Exploitation and Precarious Labor and to mandate a representative of the rally to attend the conference in Mumbai. The rally chair noted that the Mexican delegation to Mumbai was being put together from within the struggles and mobilizations of the workers and their community allies.

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International Appeal from Palenque

To the trade unions and community organizations in Mexico and the world over,
To all workers in the healthcare sector worldwide:

On May 23, 2016, in the region of Palenque, Chiapas (Mexico) -- just as in other regions of Chiapas -- healthcare workers of Section 50 of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (SNTSSA) began a strike against the misnamed "reform" of the national healthcare system.

During the past 126 days, around 350 Palenque healthcare workers (65% of whom are women) have waged a hard-fought struggle in support of their main demands, which are: proper provisioning of medicines and medical supplies in the hospitals and outposts to the indigenous communities; no to the theft by the state authorities of monies that should be going into the workers' retirement plans (and the repayment of all stolen funds); the reinstatement of the nine workers who were fired for going out on strike; and the back-payment of wages withheld to 45 workers for striking and simply defending the right to healthcare that is enshrined in the Mexican Constitution.

The 126 days of struggle have shown that the path of mobilization is the most effective path. The recent mobilizations initiated by 400 healthcare workers in the region of Comitan, and the recent occupation of the offices of the Ministry of Health in Tuxtla Gutierrez, only underscore this point.

During the 126-day strike, we have understood the need to build instruments to promote our unity and our struggle to oppose and/or repeal all the government "counter-reforms" that destroy our rights and gains. This is why we support the call by the Mexican Electrical Workers (SME) and many others to build a new Trade Union Federation (Nueva Central de Trabajadores).

This is also why, having been informed about the Call for a World Conference Against War, Exploitation and Precarious Labor in Mumbai, India, we have decided to support this call.

Our International Appeal from Palenque is addressed to political, trade union and community organizations and activists throughout the world. It is addressed to all who defend healthcare as a right -- which for us means full access to medicines and care in hospitals and clinics, the reinstatement of all fired healthcare workers, and the repayment of back wages and retirement funds to all the healthcare workers in the Palenque region of Chiapas.

We call on all of you to endorse this International Appeal from Palenque. We will be sending it, with all the names of individuals and organizations gathered from around the world, to Lic. Manuel Velasco Coello (State Governor of Chiapas), Dr. José Narro Robles (Minister of Health of Mexico) and Dr. Francisco Ortega Farera (Minister of Health of the state of Chiapas).

Please send your endorsement of this Appeal to Lic. Saul Alejandro Hernandez Nucamendi (email: [email protected]), with copies to Russell Aguilar Brindis (email: [email protected]) and Nambiath Vasudevan (email: [email protected]).

-- Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, September 25, 2016

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4th January 2017, 15:00

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The sixty-three members and officers of the IUF-affiliated Quetta Serena Hotel Union who were arrested on November 30 (https://www.iufcampaigns.org/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=1029) for peacefully gathering in front of the hotel after union members were denied entry are now back at work. Management has not pressed charges nor followed through with disciplinary proceedings, and the provincial High Court has overturned an earlier labour court decision instigated by the hotel management banning union activity at the hotel.

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Union activists from around the country travelled to Agadir on December 31, 2016 to show their support for the more than 500 workers dismissed by the DOHA fish canning company following a strike and lockout in 2015 and to denounce the court-ordered seizure of the union leader's apartment.

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10th January 2017, 15:26

Philippines: union leaders victimized after participating in IUF Global Housekeepers Campaign

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11th January 2017, 18:13

"Info Inter n°20", the information newsletter of the International workers’ committee against war and exploitation, for a workers’ International.

Dear friends and comrades,

Please, find attached "Info Inter n°20", the information newsletter of the International workers’ committee against war and exploitation, for a workers’ International.

Contents :

>> INDIA - The victory of 2700 Sweepers of Mumbai Municipal Corporation is the victory of united fight by these faceless and voiceless workers -- By Milind RANADE & Deepak BHALEAR

>> MEXICO - 156 Healthcare Workers in the Region of Palenque, Chiapas (Mexico), Reinstated in Their Jobs! "It's a Victory of Workers' Solidarity at the Local, National and International Levels!" -- By Russell AGUILAR BRINDIS & Misael PALMA

Fraternal greetings.

Nambiath VASUDEVAN
Daniel GLUCKSTEIN

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ckaihatsu

12th January 2017, 14:21

Yemen: Norwegian oil company DNO must pay its workers

In the summer of 2015 as war broke out in Yemen, the Norwegian-based oil company DNO decided to cut and run. They sacked their local staff by SMS and email. This not only showed a complete lack of respect for people who had loyally served the company for over ten years, but broke local law. And workers were faced both with war in their country and no income for their families.

DNO was not a great employer in Yemen even before running away. It payed the lowest wages compared to other oil companies. When workers responded with strikes, DNO threatened to sack all those who took industrial action -- again, in breach of local laws.

There are 175 former DNO workers and their families waiting for justice -- for back pay and redundancy pay, and for their dignity. Please take a moment to support their struggle here:

http://www.labourstart.org/go/dnoyemen

And please share this message with your friends, family and fellow union members.

Thank you.

Eric Lee

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ckaihatsu

13th January 2017, 19:01

[email protected] #226 - Norwegian oil company DNO targeted by unions

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Norwegian oil company DNO targeted by unions

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Failure to pay workers in Yemen has made Norwegian oil company, DNO, a target of a trade union campaign.

IndustriALL Global Union and its Norwegian affiliate, Industri Energi, in partnership with LabourStart have launched a petition in support of 175 DNO workers and their families in Yemen, whom the company has failed to pay for more than 18 months.

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Trinidad oil workers’ union wins pay increase

IndustriALL Global Union’s affiliate in Trinidad and Tobago, has won a hard-fought battle for a pay rise, after 5,000 oil workers threatened strike action against state oil company Petrotrin.

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Five workers burn to death at Gadani shipbreaking yard

At least five workers have died in a fire onboard an LPG container ship at the Gadani shipbreaking yard in Pakistan on 9 January, in yet another deadly incident at the yard. Despite scores of fatalities at Gadani in the last few months, no measures have been taken to improve safety.

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Ending conflict in a polarized society: Colombia's trade unions mobilize for peace

After five decades of civil war, a peace treaty was rejected by a narrow majority of the population in this deeply divided country. Colombia’s trade unions are determined to help build a just peace, working with civil society to achieve a settlement that begins to heal the deep wounds.

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2016 – a year of intensive campaigning for IndustriALL

2016 was another momentous year for IndustriALL Global Union. Four years after the organization was founded in Copenhagen, IndustriALL held it’s second Congress in October in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was attended by some 1,400 trade union members from more than 100 countries.

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