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Five cement workers killed at Ambuja-Holcim in India

Feb 1, 2013 

IndustriALL Global Union affiliated cement contract workers trade union PCSS in India reported a deadly accident on 31 January that killed five workers in Bhatapara, Chhattisgarh India.

Pakistani unions demand justice for textile workers

Feb 1, 2013 

Outraged by the news that Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf called for murder charges to be dropped against the brothers who own a Karachi garment factory where 259 workers were killed, unions in Pakistan protested on 30 January 2013.

Stop attacks on trade unions in Mexico

Feb 6, 2013 

Unite the Union holds a public meeting in London at 18:00 to 19:30 on 20 February 2013 on trade union rights in Mexico

US unions take action on Mexico

Feb 6, 2013 

Unions and worker rights supporters took action across the US as part of the Mexico Days of Action 18 to 24 February 2013.

Mexican Corona beer bottlers’ mobilization attacked

Feb 7, 2013 

The 26 January demonstration by IndustriALL Global Union’s Mexican glass worker affiliate SUTEIVP, in front of the Corona beer bottle manufacturing plant that sacked them for union activities five years ago, was physically attacked by representatives of the local yellow union.

People before profit is the call at Africa’s Mining Indaba

Feb 7, 2013 

Outside Africa’s annual meeting of mining corporates and senior government officials, activists protested the exclusion of civil society that represent the actual owners of the continent’s huge mineral wealth chanting, “nothing about us without us”.

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