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On 16 September, 23 regional representatives of ICEM&rsquo;s Sub-Saharan African Region met in Douala, Cameroon, and developed an ambitious agenda around project work, organising, and health, safety, and environmental matters. The forum was headed by Regional Chairman Rayford Mbulu, General Secretary of the Mineworkers&rsquo; Union of Zambia, and served as the Executive Meeting of the region. 
 
Delegates took up the dire political situations on the continent, including the power-sharing agreement now in place in Zimbabwe between political parties headed by Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe. The committee gave a cautious nod toward the arrangement, but did call it a step in the right direction for Zimbabwe. The ICEM African union leaders called for monitoring of the power-sharing commitment by the world&rsquo;s political leaders.
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ICEM&nbsp;Sub-Saharan Africa Region Chair Rayford Mbulu&nbsp;
The Sub-Saharan African committee also expressed concern over political situations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, C&ocirc;te d&rsquo;Ivoire, Somalia, and Sudan. 
 
The committee gave whole-hearted support to the inauguration of an ICEM project on Contract and Agency Labour in the region, with trade unionists from the former WFIW present promising to explore avenues of additional funding. They also discussed the possibility of development of a project around Chinese investment in Africa, as well as a separate women&rsquo;s project.
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They also took up a situation involving a uranium mining project in Malawi. An NGO, Citizens for Justice Malawi, has brought the project before the ICEM region on environmental and workers&rsquo; rights grounds. The project, by Australian Paladin Energy Ltd., is expected to begin extraction early in 2009. The regional committee will dispatch a fact-finding team consisting of ICEM Regional Coordinator Fabian Nkomo and Derrick Elbrecht, the General Treasurer of South Africa&rsquo;s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). 
 
Besides ICEM President Senzeni Zokwana of NUM, other representatives of ICEM affiliates present at the 16 September regional Executive Meeting includes comrades from Botswana, Cameroon, C&ocirc;te d&rsquo;Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, South Africa, Togo, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

ICEM’s Sub-Saharan African Region Shapes Priorities at Cameroon Meeting

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A forum to highlight, before the ILO, the social unravelling that comes with the widespread use of Contract and Agency Labour &ndash; and all forms of precarious work &ndash; was held 3 October in Geneva. The half-day programme was intended to give notice to the ILO that it must address the issue in order to preserve its work relationships agenda. 
 
The Global Union Federations ICEM, Building and Wood Workers&rsquo; International (BWI), International Union of Food and Agricultural Workers (IUF), International Metalworkers&rsquo; Federation (IMF), and Union Network International (UNI) took part, as did the Council of Global Unions, the umbrella organisation of the GUFs, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), and Trade Union Advisory Council of the OECD.
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The forum had input from representatives of the Bureau of Workers&rsquo; Activities (Actrav) of the ILO. 
 
Speaker after speaker emphasized the threat to core ILO Conventions 87 and 98 by the ever-growing use of short-term contract and temporary workers by employers. With that, came a common outcry, a lowering of living and working conditions is sure to follow. 
 
In introducing the subject, ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda equated the current &ldquo;precariousness&rdquo; of the global financial situation, and the hopeful end to &ldquo;blind faith&rdquo; markets, with the necessity for the ILO to begin the process to introduce global standards on precarious work.
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&nbsp;ICEM Gen. Sec. Manfred Warda 

&ldquo;The issue of precarious work is fundamental to the very essence of the ILO,&rdquo; stated Warda. &ldquo;The erosion of employment structures robs workers of the will and capacity to join unions, and it gives families a permanent feeling of insecurity.&rdquo; 
 
Warda stressed that the ILO must begin serious discussions with its employer constituencies and governmental units to establish recommendations and standards on the issue. 
 
ICEM testimony also came from Danish trade union leader J&oslash;rgen Juul Rasmussen, the General Secretary of Dansk El-Forbund. He said the practice of employing contract or agency workers is now common in both developed and developing nations. &ldquo;Our experience, which is not always easy, is to identify the primary employer, and then use all means to enforce the law regarding health insurance, pension rights, and other social criteria on behalf of agency workers.&rdquo; 
 
The strategy of Dansk El-Forbund, an electrical workers&rsquo; union, said Rasmussen, is to be pro-active in organising agency workers and so-called subcontractors.
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Dansk El-Forbund Gen. Sec. J&oslash;rgen Juul Rasmussen&nbsp;
BWI General Secretary Anita Normark said companies engage temporary workers to cut costs, increase their flexibility, and to have less responsibility. 
 
Global trade unions and the ILO, she said, must engage governments and companies &ldquo;on what this is leading to in society. For governments, this is fast becoming an issue on how to secure the economies of their nations.&rdquo;
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IMF Gen. Sec. Marcello Malentacchi&nbsp;&nbsp;
IMF General Secretary Marcello Malentacchi called attention to an ILO complaint that his federation, together with the Korean Metal Workers&rsquo; Union, brought before the Committee on Freedom of Association over falsification of contract workers. He said at the Kiryung Electronics factory, an operation cited in the complaint, only 5% of workers in the plant are permanent workers and they are male. 
 
&ldquo;Nearly all the (others) are women earning 47% less than their male colleagues.&rdquo; 
 
He added, &ldquo;Our unions are facing an uphill battle and they need the support of the ILO. The best hope for precarious workers to improve their situation is to unionise.&rdquo; 
Other case study experiences were shared by Alke Boessinger and Claire Parfitt of UNI and Peter Rossman of IUF. Rossman used examples of Nestle globally and Unilever regionally to prove that &quot;a declining (unionised) bargaining unit means declining conditions for all ...&nbsp;and shrinking applicability of the core labour standards.&quot; 
 
The forum opened with endorsement of a process toward ILO debate on the subject by Actrav Director Dan Cunniah, who said there should be an ILO Convention on precarious work and that more can and should be done to achieve one. 
Raquel Gonzalez of the ITUC&rsquo;s Workers&rsquo; Group called the 3 October discussions important because the issue is a major obstacle to the decent work relationship. She said the ILO&rsquo;s declaration from June 2008, the Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalisation, has several provisions which tie in with precarious employment. 
 
Gonzalez also said the growth of temporary work must be central in discussions next year during the ILO Labour Conference&rsquo;s focus on Gender Equality, &ldquo;since women are over-represented in this type of work.&rdquo; 
 
In the mid 1990s, the ILO did take up the issue of temporary and agency labour, but the discussions were dropped due to lack of consensus, within the tripartite structures, over definitions, terms, and language related to non-regular work.

Global Union Federations Bring Contract, Agency Labour Issue Squarely Before the ILO

Boehringer Ingelheim/ICEM 
 
India Project 2008-2009 
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Based on the initiation work by ICEM and its affiliates in India and following an analysis of the prevailing problems and needs during the workshop in November 2006, the following project for the period July 2008 to December 2009 was agreed. 
Objectives 
&bull; To fill the existing gap of qualified peer educators/lay counsellors in the industrial sectors covered by ICEM affiliates in India; 
&bull; To up-scale awareness campaigns, education and advocacy for VCT and ART; 
&bull; To familiarise medical and para-medical staff in medical facilities of companies, Welfare Board members and staff at company schools with HIV/AIDS to ensure awareness, confidentiality, non-discrimination and non-victimisation; 
&bull; To publish brochures, leaflets and posters in five different languages (Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Marathi and English). 
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Activities 
&bull; Training of 500 peer educators/lay counsellors in 20 programmes of three days each; 
&bull; Orientation of 250 medical and para-medical staff in company health facilities in ten programmes of one day each; 
&bull; Orientation of welfare board and committee members; 
&bull; Orientation of 200 teachers and staff at company schools in eight programmes of one day each; 
&bull; Orientation of officials of local self-government; 
&bull; Publication of brochures, leaflets and posters in five languages; 
&bull; Observation of World AIDS Day &ndash; organising rallies, meetings and symposiums. 
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Target Groups 
The target groups are as per above activities. For the training of peer educators/lay counsellors 400 will be unionists from the coal mining sector and 100 from the diamond and cement sectors. 
 
For the other target groups they will be predominantly from the coal mining sector as few medical facilities or company schools exist outside that sector. 
 
Orientation of officials of local self-government is not envisaged in the first year of the project. 
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Expected Results 
It is expected that peer educators/lay counsellors drawn from the ranks of the union can actively promote VCT among workers, their family members and the wider community. They are non-medical staff whose main objective will be Know-your-Status-Campaigns. VCT will be carried out at company or public medical facilities. It is difficult to quantify expected results but it can be safely said that the baseline is close to zero; i.e. that very few people go for voluntary counselling and testing. 
 
It is assumed that the companies give such trained people some time off from their normal work duties.

Joint ICEM - Boehringer Ingelheim Project on HIV/AIDS in India

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A memorial event in Brisbane, Australia, and a minute of silence at all mining operations in Queensland State marked the first Miners&rsquo; Memorial Day on Friday, 19 September. The state-wide tribute to fallen miners was the brain-child of the Energy and Mining Division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union (CFMEU) of Queensland. 
 
The day was chosen because it was on 19 September 1921 that the worst mining disaster in Queensland history occurred: 75 miners perished in a coal-dust explosion at Mount Mulligan in the northern reaches of the state. The day was officially recognised by the state government, with Acting Premier Paul Lucas, speaking at the memorial in Brisbane, saying that many miners had paid the ultimate price for an industry which had helped form Queensland&rsquo;s strong economy.
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&ldquo;While we enjoy the benefits of the resources boom, we should reflect on how we got here today and at what price,&rdquo; Lucas said. 
 
CFMEU Queensland put the count at 1,450 miners who have died at collieries since the early 1800s. CFMEU state Secretary Jim Valery said residents of the eastern Australian state often forget the sacrifices that have been made by miners and their families in bringing prosperity to Queensland. 
 
Besides the 1921 Mount Mulligan mine explosion, other tragic examples of coal-mining catastrophes in modern times occurred at Box Flat on 31 July 1972, when 17 miners died, and on 13 October 1954 at Collinsville, where seven miners died in a gas explosion. In addition, 36 miners lost their lives in recent history at mines in the area around Moura. On 7 August 1994, 11 died at a colliery near the east-central Queensland town; on 18 July 1986, 12 perished at the Moura No. 4 mine; and on 20 September 1975, 13 died inside the Kianga mine. 
 
Last year in Brisbane, an excellent video documentary entitled &ldquo;Make Safety Their Monument&rdquo; was produced, with funds commissioned by the Queensland Resources Council.

Queensland State CFMEU Holds Inaugural Miners’ Memorial Day on 19 September

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A month after Brazilian and Canadian miners met in the province of Manitoba to develop further bonds of solidarity, 1,300 members of the United Steelworkers (USW) in Thompson, Canada, ratified their first labour agreement with Vale, the Brazilian mining giant which bought the nickel-mining and smelting operations of Inco in northern Manitoba two years ago. 
 
The USW announced on 16 September that union members of Local 6166 ratified the new three-year labour agreement with a 65.5% vote in favour.
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The labour agreement contains a first-year three percent wage increase, effective 15 September 2008, followed by wage increases of 2.5% in 2009 and 2% in 2010. The new contract also contains cost-of-living adjustments, plus a C$5,000 ratification bonus for each worker. The union said the average increase for workers over the three-year period totals 13.7% 
 
The new collective agreement includes a process to limit the amount of sub-contract work Vale can do, and the union won improvements to pensions, insurance, medical emergency benefits, and maternity leave. Local branch president Les Ellsworth called the negotiations &ldquo;a good first step in our relationship with&rdquo; Companhia do Rio Doce, or Vale, which purchased Canadian-based Inco in 2006. 
 
&ldquo;We hope that the way these negotiations have been conducted will help set the stage for bargaining at Vale-Inco&rsquo;s Ontario operations,&rdquo; said Ellsworth, referring to contracts coming due next year for 4,000 USW miners and mill workers at Vale&rsquo;s copper and nickel facilities in Sudbury, Ontario. 
 
On 12-14 August, leaders of five Brazilian unions, including Sindicato dos Ferroviviarios do Maranhoa-MA (CNTT) and Sindimina-RJ (CNTSM), visited Thompson along with USW members from the eastern regions of Canada &ndash; also employed by Vale-Inco &ndash; in ongoing efforts to build solidarity.

Western Canadian Steelworkers Reach Accord with Mining Company Vale

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A planned strike yesterday, 19 October, by ICEM Kuwaiti affiliate KNPC Labour Syndicate was postponed after the company, Kuwait National Petroleum Co. (KNPC), met workers&rsquo; demands for better pay and staff promotions. 
 
The union said the strike, planned at Kuwait&rsquo;s three refineries and other oil installations, would be postponed for eight weeks in order to allow KNPC to implement an agreement reached before the weekend. On Wednesday, 15 October, the KNPC Labour Syndicate&rsquo;s board of directors issued a statement urging &ldquo;all employees and workers to stage a total strike in all sectors and be present in the headquarters of the syndicate&rdquo; on Sunday morning, 19 September.
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The strike call came two days after all three of KNPC&rsquo;s refineries were closed due to a power blackout. Although the 13 October outage did not cause any health or safety incidents, KNPC&rsquo;s refineries do have a serious recent history of safety mishaps. On 11 August, one maintenance contractor was killed and another badly injured when a fire erupted during the shutdown of a hydro-cracking unit at the Shuabia refinery. 
 
And in late June, several workers were injured in another fire at the Mina Abdullah refinery, KNPC&rsquo;s largest. A September fire at KNPC&rsquo;s third refinery, Mina al-Ahmedi, did not cause any injuries. 
 
The national oil company is mired in political controversy as it tries to construct the 615,000-barrel-per-day Al-Zour refinery, due now to go on-line in 2012. Currently, KNPC&rsquo;s three refineries produce petroleum products amounting to 930,000 barrels-per-day.

Kuwaiti Oil Strike Averted After Government Accedes to Demands

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In Australia, another round of industrial action by iron-ore train drivers of Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union (CFMEU) is scheduled this week against Rio Tinto. The strikes are seen as a pivotal test in getting a company to negotiate collective agreements with Australian unions, turn away from the Howard-era individual work agreements. 
 
Some 30 drivers staged a 12-hour strike against Rio&rsquo;s export-hauling ore lines to the West Australia port of Dampier on 11 October. They will stage successive 12-hour strike actions this week on 22 October and 23 October.
The strike actions are protected activity since CFMEU conducted secret-ballot votes of the drivers. In late 2007, those drivers refused to sign renewal Australian Workplace Agreements &ndash; or individual contracts &ndash; with the intention of gaining a collective agreement.
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Individual work agreements for some 45 drivers expire early next year, and the drivers and CFMEU seek enterprise agreements and fair wage gains. But Rio Tinto has refused to enter negotiations with the union, preferring individual contracts with the locomotive drivers, who are crucial to Rio&rsquo;s mineral export profits from Australia. 
 
The drivers seek a wage increase of 4.75%, which is the rate of West Australia&rsquo;s economic growth, and they seek continuation of an A$20,000 bonus when Rio Tinto switches to driver-less trains in 2012. CFMEU West Australia Mining and Energy Secretary Gary Wood said continuing strike actions are likely unless Rio Tinto comes to the bargaining table. As 2009 approaches, more of the company&rsquo;s 300 train drivers could vote for similar industrial action as their individual agreements expire. 
 
Legislation repealing the individual work agreement portion of John Howard&rsquo;s WorkChoices law will not take effect until July 2009, meaning companies are not compelled to bargain with unions until then. But that does not prohibit Australian trade unions from taking industrial action, as long as the necessary protocols are followed.
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State politicians and others are urging Rio Tinto to begin informal talks with the CFMEU. Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) President Sharan Burrow commented on the industrial actions by stating the company&rsquo;s refusal to negotiate is directly contrary to ILO Convention 98. &ldquo;Rio Tinto is saying, &lsquo;You can be a member of the union, but we&rsquo;re not going to sit down and talk to you collectively.&rsquo;&rdquo; She added it is an insult to the drivers to have their future job design and job security decided without collective consultation. 
 
The job actions by train drivers and their union in northwest Australia are necessary pressure tactics in getting an employer to reverse itself from former Prime Minister John Howard&rsquo;s draconian and company-dominated labour statutes. The ICEM salutes the direct action taken of late by these workers at Rio Tinto&rsquo;s Hamersly and Pilbara Iron Ore subsidiaries.

Rio Tinto’s Iron-Ore Train Drivers Reject Individual Work Agreements with Industrial Action

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ICEM South African affiliate National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was joyous with the news that the country&rsquo;s Parliament elected Kgalema Motlanthe as President of the country two weeks ago. Motlanthe, a former NUM staffer and General Secretary, was sworn in on 25 September, replacing Thabo Mbeki who resigned. 
 
He will serve as South Africa&rsquo;s third president in post-apartheid era until at least next year&rsquo;s elections.
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South African President Kgalema Motlanthe 
Considered a master educational strategist and a voice of reason within the now tumultuous landscape of the African National Congress (ANC), Motlanthe stepped into a prominent NUM role in 1987 immediately after serving a 10-year prison sentence for activities within the then-outlawed ANC. He became the union&rsquo;s Education Secretary then, and was the prime architect in shaping the union&rsquo;s strong shop steward system. 
 
In January 1992, he was elected by the NUM&rsquo;s Central Committee to succeed General Secretary Cyril Ramaphosa when Ramaphosa was elected Secretary-General of the ANC. In 1997, he again succeeded the great Ramaphosa at the helm of the ANC, a position held now by former ICEM&nbsp;Executive Committee member&nbsp;and NUM General Secretary Gwede Mantashe. Motlanthe, now 59, was elected Deputy President of the ANC late last year after Jacob Zuma defeated Mbeki as leader of the ANC. 
 
Motlanthe&rsquo;s tenure at the NUM &ndash; besides building lasting rank-and-file political education programmes &ndash; included negotiating two-year bargaining periods opposite the Chamber of Mines, negotiation terms still intact today. He also pioneered trade union investment mechanisms and was a leading and early proponent on laws vesting mineral rights with the state.
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At age 23 in 1972, Motlanthe when to Mozambique where he joined the banned ANC. He was arrested for 11 months in 1976 for his efforts to organise students, and then a year later began his 10-year prison term at Robben Island, where he was imprisoned with anti-apartheid stalwarts Nelson Mandela, Harry Gwala, Mac Muharaj, and Walter Sisulu, who became his mentor inside the famed lock-up. 
 
At the NUM&rsquo;s Congress in 2004, speaking during his second term as ANC Secretary-General, Motlanthe urged delegates to &ldquo;use the union&rsquo;s structure to enhance the struggles&rdquo; to deal with poverty and to transform a society that defends the rights of workers in order to overcome an economic divide.

NUM Welcomes ‘One of Its Own’ as Acting President of South Africa

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The ICEM was saddened to learn of the death, 22 September, of Golekanye Mogende, President of the Botswana Mine Workers&rsquo; Union (BMWU). Mogende, 56, passed away unexpectedly in his home in Kopong. 
 
In March 2008, he was elected to head the prominent union, which represents miners at several enterprises, including the joint diamond-mining venture between the government and DeBeers called Debswana, and BCL, a copper, nickel, and cobalt company formerly called Bamangwato Concession Ltd. 
 
In fact, after joining the BMWU in 1995, it was at BCL where his union career was started. As BMWU chairman of the Selebi-Phikwe branch, a post he was elected to in the year 2000, he and three other bargaining committee members were sacked by the Botswana-based company in July 2004. Their crime: possession of financial information on the company, a common practice for any trained union negotiator and one essential for effective workers&rsquo; representation at the bargaining table. 

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Two months later, his integrity still intact, he was elected Deputy National Chairman of the BMWU. In 2006, he became the full-time chairman of the Salibi-Phikwe branch and was elected the peacemaker President in a fractious BMWU national election at last spring&rsquo;s congress. 
 
He was remembered by thousands of mourners, including Botswana Federation of Trade Unions President Japhta Radibe, in a memorial on 27 September. 
 
&ldquo;We understood Comrade Mogende to be a dedicated trade union leader, with an honest and direct approach to matters between labour and management that gave mineworkers &ndash; indeed, all workers in Botswana &ndash; earnest representation and a sincere commitment to workers&rsquo; rights,&rdquo; stated ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda, in a tribute letter to the BMWU . 
 
He is survived by his wife and two children.

ICEM Mourns Passing of Botswana’s Mine Union Leader

Statement of Xstrata Union Leaders 
 
We as leaders of unions representing workers at Xstrata have met in Montreal, Quebec on October 15 and 16, 2008. 
 
We have exchanged information and discussed our experiences. 
 
We are concerned that Xstrata&rsquo;s actions are having a negative impact on workers and communities around the world. We expect Xstrata to operate at the highest labour and environmental standards around the world. 
 
We agreed as follows: 
&bull; To support members of CAW 599 in their struggle in Timmins, Ontario, Canada with the company. 
&bull; To find concrete ways to offer stronger support to each other during collective bargaining, especially for unions entering into bargaining in 2008 and 2009 (including among others: the Falconbridge Workers Union in the Dominican Republic; Altonorte Smelter Workers Union, in Chile, and Antamina Workers Union, in Peru). 
&bull; To promote worker exchanges to promote solidarity and build awareness on workers&rsquo; issues. 
&bull; To improve communication between us. We need fast and effective communication as the foundation of our work. We will establish a communications network through the internet. 
&bull; To consult with and educate our members in our local unions. 
&bull; To endorse the campaign of the CFMEU in Australia on workers&rsquo; right to be represented by trade unions. We will participate in that campaign through coordinated action. 
&bull; To meet again and bring together more unions representing Xstrata workers. To work with the ICEM and its affiliates. 
&bull; To develop strategies, including media strategies, to advance union campaigns. 
&bull; To establishing an International Solidarity Fund that would provide us with the resources to undertake joint projects and support each other at the appropriate times 
&bull; To work toward: 
&bull; establishing a Workers&rsquo; World Council 
&bull; engaging the company in the establishment of common international minimum standards on occupational health, safety and environment. 
 
The following unions and union federations participated in the meeting and endorse this statement. 
 
ICEM - International Federation of Chemical, Energy, and Mining and General Workers&rsquo; Unions 
 
From Australia &ndash; 
Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) &ndash; Australia, including: CFMEU branches at: 
&bull; Xstrata Newlands Coal 
&bull; Xstrata Oaky North Coal 
&bull; Northern District Branches 
 
From Germany - 
IG Metal, Nordenham, Germany 
 
From Canada &ndash; 
United Steelworkers (USW), including: 
&bull; USW Local 2020 &ndash; Xstrata Nickel, Sudbury, Ontario 
&bull; USW Local 4614 - Fonderie Generale &ndash; Montreal, Quebec 
&bull; USW Local 5385 &ndash; Brunswick Mining &amp; Smelting, Bathurst, New Brunswick 
&bull; USW Local 6887 &ndash; CCR, Montreal, Quebec 
&bull; USW Local 6486 &ndash; CEZinc, Montreal, Quebec 
&bull; USW Local 9449 - Raglan, Qu&eacute;bec 
&bull; USW Local 7085 &ndash; Brunswick Mining &amp; Smelting, Bathurst, New Brunswick 
 
From Chile &ndash; 
Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Fundidora Altonorte, Antofagasta, Chile 
 
From the Dominican Republic &ndash; 
SUTRAFADO, Falconbridge Workers Union, Dominican Republic 
 
From Peru &ndash; 
FNTMMSP, National Federation of Mine and Metalworkers of Peru 
SUTRACOMASA, Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Compa&ntilde;&iacute;a Minera Antamina, Peru

XSTRATA UNIONS GLOBAL NETWORK - October, 2008

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