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Tchibo joins agreement on garment factory safety in Bangladesh

Sep 20, 2012 

The German chain Tchibo has signed an agreement with unions and labour rights groups on factory safety in Bangladesh, where more than 600 garment workers have died in factory fires since 2006.

Tchibo second retailer worldwide to commit to groundbreaking fire safety programme

Sep 20, 2012 

Bangladeshi garment suppliers under independent building inspections

Wage deal at Lonmin but labour unrest continues in South Africa’s mining sector

Sep 20, 2012 

After a six week strike and bloody unrest at Lonmin’s Marikana mine that left 45 people dead, workers have returned to work.

Argentinian rubber workers with 23% salary hike

Sep 20, 2012 

IndustriALL Global Union’s Argentinian affiliate SUTNA achieved 23 per cent net salary increases for members at the three tyre manufacturers operating in the country, Pirelli, Firestone and Fate.

Unions are best way to prevent further disasters in Pakistan

Sep 20, 2012 

IndustriALL Global Union argues that freedom of association and trade unions are the best way to prevent further workplace tragedies, after it is revealed that certification of the Ali Enterprise factory in Pakistan by a prominent monitoring group issued just weeks earlier did not prevent the fire that killed nearly 300 workers, many of them trapped behind locked exit doors.

Workers celebrate agreements with ArcelorMittal in Pittsburgh and Monrovia.

Sep 20, 2012 

IndustriALL Global Union U.S. affiliate United Steelworkers (USW) reached a tentative new three-year agreement with ArcelorMittal for the company's operations in USA. One month earlier, the United Workers Union of Liberia (UWUL) managed to get their first deal with the same company.

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