Sectors

Sectors

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Dangerous Xstrata-Glencore merger close to reality

Sep 13, 2012 

Six months after the mining giant Xstrata and the commodities trading giant Glencore first announced their merger, the US$36 billion deal now seems close. A new and final offer has an approval deadline of 24 September.

Horror in Pakistan after 300 workers die

Sep 13, 2012 

Over 300 workers were killed in devastating factory fires on 11 September 2012 at a garment factory in Karachi and a shoe factory in Lahore, Pakistan.

Two workers die in explosion at Usiquímica

Sep 13, 2012 

The explosion of a tank of hydrofluoric acid has claimed two lives and injured ten workers in Guarulhos, Brazil. The cause of the explosion is still being investigated. The union is demanding that the guilty parties are punished.

Gerdau sacks a total of 270 workers at two of its plants in Colombia

Sep 13, 2012 

Gerdau has dismissed 180 workers from its Tocancipá plant and 90 from its Muña plant. Sintrametal is calling on the government to support the country’s workers. The company has blamed the economic crisis for the dismissals.

Gerdau Diaco Muña workers create Sintrametal committee at Sibaté plant

Sep 13, 2012 

In response to the dismissal of almost 300 workers at the end of August from two of Brazilian multinational Gerdau’s Colombian steel plants, a group of workers at Muña has decided to get organised and link up with the Sintrametal metalworkers’ union.

IndustriALL Auto Group Meeting: laying out strategy for the sector

Sep 13, 2012 

More than 60 delegates of the IndustriALL Automotive Working Group met in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on 11-13 September. In an industry slowly recovering from the crisis, organizing, global framework agreements, precarious work, and trade union rights violations are key issues.

Sectors

Sectors

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