News

9 MARCH 2010

Casualisation Eroding Decent Work Doctrine in Nigeria’s Oil, Gas Sectors

  Casualisation Eroding Decent Work Doctrine in Nigeria’s Oil, Gas Sectors More and more, multinational companies, as well as the Nigerian...

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23 FEBRUARY 2010

CEPPWAWU Defends Temp Workers in Pharmaceutical Strike in South Africa

  The ICEM South African affiliate, Chemical, Energy, Pulp, Paper, Wood, and Allied Workers Union (CEPPWAWU), has condemned management’s...

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23 FEBRUARY 2010

Housing Allowances, Labour Brokers Bring NUM to Edge of Strike at Eskom

The largest union at South African state-owned electric provider Eskom, ICEM-affiliated National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), has threatened...

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8 FEBRUARY 2010

Despite Recession, ICEM/IMF CAL Survey Shows Precarious Work Growing

    The second ICEM, International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) survey on Contract and Agency Labour (CAL) shows a continuing increase in...

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8 FEBRUARY 2010

Nigerian Energy Unions Strike ExxonMobil over Sackings of Casuals

    Nigerian workers are being victimized, while Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) continues to rely on expatriate workers in the Niger Delta,...

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8 FEBRUARY 2010

Resistance Builds Against Thai Migrant Worker Expulsion

    In Thailand, a 28 February deadline awaits for some two million migrant workers from Burma, Cambodia, and Laos to either register through a...

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8 FEBRUARY 2010

Colombia Oil Union USO Presents Demands to Service Provider Schlumberger

    On 21 January, ICEM Colombian affiliate Union Sindical Obrera de la Industria del Petrolero (USO) presented demands to management of...

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8 FEBRUARY 2010

Workers of Petrobras Contractor in Peru Take Strike Action

    The workers’ trade union of Cosmos Petroleum Services, Peru, has begun an indefinite strike action following two years of unsuccessful...

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11 JANUARY 2010

ICEM Welcomes New Global CAL Coordinator, Ashling Seely

  The ICEM’s new global Contract and Agency Labour (CAL) Coordinator/Consultant began work in her new duties last week. Ashling Seely comes...

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11 JANUARY 2010

Union, Contract Workers Continue Fight for Work Rights at Cerrejón in Colombia

  The struggle continues for trade union rights for contract workers at Colombia’s vast mining complex, Carbones del Cerrejón. ICEM mining...

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