http://www.global-unions.org/ Standing Together for Right of Workers en SPIP - www.spip.net http://www.global-unions.org/IMG/siteon0.png http://www.global-unions.org/ 144 144 http://www.bwint.org/default.asp?Index=2919&Language=EN http://www.bwint.org/default.asp?Index=2919&Language=EN 2010-09-06T16:30:24Z text/html The BWI organised the Global Unions Mission, with a delegation of Trade Union leaders from several countries visiting the Republic of Panamá, on a three day Mission 24 to 26 August 2010 to verify the Trade Union rights situation in Panamá. The mission took place after the protests and wave of (...) http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3983-Day-of-Action-for-UPS-Workers-in-Turkey- http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3983-Day-of-Action-for-UPS-Workers-in-Turkey- 2010-09-06T15:49:50Z text/html ITF’s (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Turkish affiliate TUMTIS’ (the union of road transport workers) ongoing dispute with UPS, was the centre of a global day of action, attracting solidarity and support from throughout the world, on 1 September. Those (...) http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3982-US-Teamsters-Union-Settles-Holcim-Cement-Strike-in-US http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3982-US-Teamsters-Union-Settles-Holcim-Cement-Strike-in-US 2010-09-06T15:44:48Z text/html A ten-day strike by the ICEM North American affiliate Teamsters Union against a subsidiary of Swiss-based Holcim ended 25-26 August when 130 union members at two branch locals ratified a three-year collective agreement with a 90% vote. The strike in the US state of Massachusetts was highlighted (...) http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3981-FUP-Launches-Day-Long-Warning-Strike-Against-Petrobras- http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3981-FUP-Launches-Day-Long-Warning-Strike-Against-Petrobras- 2010-09-06T15:40:48Z text/html Latin America’s largest company by market value, Petrobras, was hit hard by a one-day warning strike on 3 September. Eighty percent of ICEM-affiliated Federação Única de dos Petroleiros’s (FUP) 35,000 members shut refineries, distribution terminals, offshore platforms and rigs, and (...) http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3980-Asbestos:-James-Hardie’s-Failed-Tax-Appeal-Clouds-Victims’-Payments http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3980-Asbestos:-James-Hardie’s-Failed-Tax-Appeal-Clouds-Victims’-Payments 2010-09-06T15:29:53Z text/html Australian building materials maker James Hardie Industries lost a tax appeal case in a courtroom on 1 September that likely will inhibit the troubled company’s ability to make payments under terms of the Asbestos Injuries Compensation Fund. Under a mandatory agreement with the state (...) http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3979-Argentina’s-Rubber-Workers-Achieve-Significant-Wage-Gains http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3979-Argentina’s-Rubber-Workers-Achieve-Significant-Wage-Gains 2010-09-06T15:27:05Z text/html Successful bargaining between the ICEM affiliated Argentine Trade Union of Tyre Workers (SUTNA), Argentina’s Chamber of Commerce, and the Ministry of Labour culminated in agreement on 23 August, in Buenos Aires. A new collective agreement for the sector, covering the period July 2010 to (...) http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3978-Pappers-Conducts-Congress-at-Crucial-Political-Juncture-in-Sweden http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3978-Pappers-Conducts-Congress-at-Crucial-Political-Juncture-in-Sweden 2010-09-06T15:24:32Z text/html Meeting under the banner Med Dig, För Dig, Nära Dig (With You, For You, Close to You), Pappers, Sweden’s Paperworkers Union, held its 23rd Congress from 3-5 September in Norrköpping. The weekend Congress came two weeks before national elections in Sweden, elections that quite likely will (...) http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3977-Lockout-of-USW-represented-Uranium-Processing-Plant-in-US-Continues http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3977-Lockout-of-USW-represented-Uranium-Processing-Plant-in-US-Continues 2010-09-06T15:15:01Z text/html A lockout of 230 steelworkers by the American-based electronics firm Honeywell continues into month four at the company’s uranium hexaflouride (UF6) plant in the state of Illinois. Honeywell locked out members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 7-669 on 28 June over workers’ refusal (...) http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3976-Canadian-Negotiations-to-Resume-Between-Vale-USW-in-Bitter-Voiseys-Bay-Strike http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3976-Canadian-Negotiations-to-Resume-Between-Vale-USW-in-Bitter-Voiseys-Bay-Strike 2010-09-06T15:03:58Z text/html Bargaining again will be held in efforts to resolve the bitter 13-month strike between United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9508 in Voiseys Bay, Labrador, and Brazilian-based mining company Vale. Two days of talks will open on 19 September in the eastern Canadian province of Labrador/Newfoundland. (...) http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3975-ICEM-Condemns-Repression-of-Workers-by-Mexican-Government-Grupo-Mexico http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3975-ICEM-Condemns-Repression-of-Workers-by-Mexican-Government-Grupo-Mexico 2010-09-06T14:59:51Z text/html Grupo Mexico reacted with violence to a 20 August worker ballot at the Esqueda smelter in Sonora State, where workers voted to end the protection contract with a company union, and re-join Los Mineros Section 207. The Calderón government again supplied the police units, who moved into the mine, (...)