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Three retired workers from Continental AG in the US visited Germany with their union, the United Steelworkers (USW), in early November to protest the company&rsquo;s cut-off of medical benefits when it closed two tyre plants. Hosted by ICEM German affiliate IGBCE, the trade unionists, B.A. Hodges, Larry Little, and Jerry McChellan had several meetings with IGBCE shop stewards of the Hanover-based company and handbilled a tyre plant in Aachen. 
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The IGBCE arranged a regional press briefing for the Americans, and they also met with Werner Bischoff, board member of IGBCE and vice chairman of Continental AG&rsquo;s Supervisory Board. The USW members met with IGBCE shop stewards at Continental&rsquo;s technical centre in Northeim, and also explained the US situation of the company to shop stewards and others at IGBCE&rsquo;s training centre outside of Hanover. 
 
The three USW retirees come from closed Continental North America tyre plants in Mayfield, state of Kentucky, and Charlotte, North Carolina. They were accompanied by USW staff member Shawn Gilchrist. 
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Retired USW members B.A. Hodges, Larry Little, and Jerry McChellan 
Continental closed three US operations in 2006, including the Mayfield and Charlotte plants, as well as one in Byron, Ohio. Some 2,000 retirees were left without company-paid medical benefits, and, strongly supported from the USW, filed a class action lawsuit against the company. 
 
In late July 2007, a US federal court judge ruled in a summary judgment that the company had improperly reduced the benefit levels for retirees and their spouses. The judge&rsquo;s decision stated that since the company was unable to force its terms with the USW during contract talks, it unilaterally and illegally began implementing the cuts. Continental has said it will appeal the judge&rsquo;s ruling.

Retired US Continental Tyre Workers Take Protest to Germany

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After months of negotiations with employers, ICEM affiliate Chemical Industries Employees&rsquo; Union (CIEU) of Singapore has signed a fair employment practices contract with 20 chemical companies operating in the nation-city. The pact covers 1,700 workers, and came under the auspices of Singapore&rsquo;s Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices, formed in 2006. 
 
The agreement guarantees equal opportunities for workers regarding recruitment, job allocation, and career advancement. Perhaps the single most achievement of the pact is that it guarantees employment enhancement for older workers, age 50 and above, an age range in which 20% of the 1,700 workers fall. 
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&ldquo;CIEU is confident that the 20 companies will translate their commitments to fair employment practices into action when it comes to fair hiring and in-employment practices,&rdquo; stated Sister Cham Hui Fong, CIEU&rsquo;s Executive Secretary. &ldquo;We believe this is both a pro-worker and pro-business initiative.&rdquo; 
 
The union highlights the fact that a worker who is treated fairly is better motivated to contribute to the success of the company. 
 
Representatives of the companies and CIEU held a ceremony over the agreement at Singapore&rsquo;s National Trade Union Congress on 24 October. Some of the 20 chemical companies signatory to the pact include: Aventis Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Eastman Chemicals of Singapore, FujiFilm/Hunt Chemicals, Glaxo Wellcome, and Total Pharmaceuticals.

Chemical Workers’ Union of Singapore Signs Pact with 20 Firms

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The ICEM affiliate, Oil and Gas Workers&rsquo; Union of Azerbaijan (AzOGWU), came to terms over a historic social development contract, covering 65,000 workers of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR). 
 
Announcement of the pact came at AzOGWU&rsquo;s Third Ordinary Congress in Baku on 2 November, by the union&rsquo;s president, Jahangir Aiyev, and Socar President, R&ouml;vneq Abdullayev. The agreement amounts to a detailed social plan for all departments, sections, and workplaces of SOCAR. It also comes immediately after sizeable wage gains and working conditions were negotiated. 
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Foremost to the social plan is a SOCAR commitment to provide free of charge housing to 6,000 employees between now and 2010. Assurances of health and safety upgrades is part of the social development plan. Employees in all departments will also realise better transportation allowances, and safer and more modern sea transportation to offshore worksites. The social plan also spells out better catering, creation of sports and cultural centres, and other amenities for workers. 
 
AzOGWU&rsquo;s Congress, attended by 250 delegates, re-elected Jahangir Aiyev as President, and Fetullah Mustafayev as Vice President. Special guests at the Congress included Lev Mironov, ICEM Vice President and President of the Russian Oil and Gas Workers Union (ROGWU); Ivan Mochnachuk, also an ICEM Vice President and President of the Russian Independent Coal Employees&rsquo; Union; Mustafa &Ouml;ztaskin, President of Turkey&rsquo;s Petrol-Iş; and Kemal &Ouml;zkan, ICEM&rsquo;s Chemicals and Rubber Industries Officer.

Azeri Oil and Gas Workers’ Union Achieves Historic Pact with SOCAR

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The 4th ICEM World Congress begins this Thursday, 22 November, and participants and others can find Congress information on a special sub-section of the ICEM website. Through <a href="/congress">www.icem.org/congress</a>, you will find all background information, including several Congress documents, as well as practical information on the venue, the Queen Sirikit Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand. 
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The week-long set of meetings around the Congress, which runs 22-24 November, actually began this past weekend. A two-day Women&rsquo;s Conference was held 17-18 November, and a Contract and Agency Labour Conference will run on Wednesday, 21 November. 
 
In addition, a special meeting of the ICEM&rsquo;s Pulp and Paper Sector will occur, also on 21 November. 
 
During the Congress, this web-page will also be the place to look for updates and news on the Congress.

ICEM Website Set for GUF’s World Congress

The UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) should send a special Commission of Enquiry to Colombia without delay to investigate the widespread murder and abduction of trade unionists there. 
 
That is the call today from global unions representing more than 160 million workers worldwide. 
 
In an unusual move, the labour proposal was issued jointly by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and all of the global unions' sector-by-sector International Trade Secretariats, including the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM). 
 
This underlines global labour's deep concern over the rising tide of violence in Colombia. Trade unionists there are among the most frequent targets for assassination - mainly by right-wing death squads, and sometimes also by guerrilla movements. At least 129 Colombian trade unionists were murdered in 2000, and up to now, at least 63 more have been assassinated this year. Others have &quot;disappeared&quot;. Trade unionists and their families face constant threats and intimidation. 
 
Within the ILO, the world's governments, unions and employers meet on equal terms. They adopt international standards on, amongst other things, the protection of trade union rights. The ILO's annual conference is currently in session in Geneva. 
 
Addressing its plenary this afternoon, ICFTU General Secretary Bill Jordan will call on government and employer delegates to support the global unions' proposal for an enquiry on Colombia. 
 
If a special Commission of Inquiry finds persistent abuse of labour rights in a country, the ILO can ultimately call for the international community to take measures against the government concerned. This has recently happened in the case of Burma, over its systematic use of forced labour. 
 
The ILO commission should investigate all aspects of trade union rights in Colombia, the global unions say. It should establish who is to blame - both directly and indirectly - for the killings, abductions and threats against trade unionists. It should also gauge the overall social effects of these anti-union activities in a country where the trade unions are among the few remaining forces for peace and reconciliation. 
 
And it should examine closely why the Colombian government has not been taking adequate measures to guarantee the security of trade unionists, in line with ILO standards and the recommendations repeatedly made by the United Nations. A report this March by the Office on Colombia of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights found that the State had not decisively assumed its responsibility to guarantee the safety of trade unions and other sectors particularly at risk. 
 
Similarly, the unions say, employers in Colombia should be taking proper steps to ensure that trade unionists are safe from attack in the workplace and on the way to and from work. 
 
The global unions' proposal will now be examined by the ILO Governing Body. Other organisations that have called for an ILO Commission of Inquiry on Colombia include Amnesty International and the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in Colombia.

Colombian Killings: 63 Trade Unionists Murdered Since January

Electricity workers in Pakistan have been staging protest strikes over the arrest of a union leader, according to reports reaching the 20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM). 
 
Pirzada Imtiaz Syed, General Secretary of the ICEM-affiliated Pakistan WAPDA Labour Union (PWLU) was arrested on 1 June. WAPDA is the Pakistani electricity utility, currently facing privatisation plans. 
 
Pirzada was arrested during a raid on the union's headquarters by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). The raid was a very violent one, during which a member of the union staff had his arm broken, computers and other equipment were smashed and the PWLU's files were seized. 
 
No reason was given for Pirzada's arrest. 
 
It is understood that he is still being detained by the FIA in Lahore. An application for his release on bail was rejected yesterday. The judge reportedly said that Pirzada would be brought before a court on 12 June, but refused to specify the charges against him. 
 
&quot;If any criminal charges are to be preferred against Pirzada Imtiaz Syed, I request you to inform me of the nature of those charges,&quot; wrote ICEM General Secretary Fred Higgs in a message to General Pervez Musharraf, the Chief Executive of Pakistan. &quot;If no such charges have been brought, I urge you to ensure his immediate and unconditional release from detention. In either case, I request your assurance that he is being detained in humane conditions and is not subject to ill-treatment of any kind.&quot; 
 
Higgs has also requested a meeting with Pakistan's charg&eacute; d'affaires in Brussels.

Pakistan Power Workers Strike After Leader&#039;s Arrest

Industrial workers face a double challenge from climate change. 
 
For workers and their families, changes in the world's climate have big implications for living standards, lifestyles, the supply and price of food, and health and safety. 
 
But on the other hand, measures to limit those changes are seen as a major threat to industrial jobs. 
 
So must we choose between environment and employment? Between environment and development? 
 
Not necessarily, says a position paper adopted today by unions representing the world's energy workers - and workers in some of the world's most energy-intensive process industries. 
 
A &quot;just transition&quot; within industry is the key to minimising climate change while maximising jobs, says the 20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM). The detailed paper &quot;Labour and Climate Change&quot; was approved today by the ICEM's global Executive Committee, currently in session in Brussels. 
 
The ICEM feels a particular responsibility to help define, refine and promote the concept of sustainable development. Many ICEM-affiliated workers around the world &quot;are directly employed in the energy industries - coal mining, oil and gas extraction and processing and power generation.&quot; And &quot;the majority of the other industries in which the ICEM is involved - chemicals, pharmaceuticals, rubber, ceramics - are heavy energy users.&quot; 
 
Tackling climate change and other environmental problems is therefore seen as a special challenge. &quot;Not only will there be major industry restructuring required,&quot; the ICEM warns, &quot;but unions and governments may find themselves in conflict if a major effort is not made to find a globally just and substainable solution.&quot; 
 
And how is that conflict to be avoided? Certainly not by ignoring the problem, the ICEM insists. &quot;Just transition&quot; implies an acceptance that industry will have to make big changes. Better to start now, and to plan the transition properly, than to face panic measures and social chaos a few years hence. 
 
At the same time, industry alone will not be able to solve all the problems. As the ICEM points out, the choices made by individuals, as consumers, will be equally important. 
 
 
ACTION POINTS 
 
Among the ICEM paper's main recommendations: 
 
- CARBON TAXES, in other words taxes on the use of fossil fuels, &quot;must be considered carefully by ICEM unions.&quot; On balance and over time, &quot;increased taxes on natural resources, including a carbon tax on fossil fuels, will lead to more jobs in other industries. However, the clear consequence is also that resource and energy-intensive industries are penalised... The jobs that may be created from cuts in labour taxes as a result of a carbon tax are not immediately likely to go to those workers who lose their jobs in power generation and energy-intensive industry.&quot; But &quot;in assessing the cost of this to the members of ICEM unions we need to bear in mind that massive employment losses in many ICEM industries are already occurring as a result of technological change and market forces. Carbon taxes will accelerate that problem, but how much of an additional contributor will they be?&quot; If ICEM unions are confronted with carbon tax proposals, the paper argues, they should also negotiate to have the tax revenues directed towards reducing the taxes and charges on labour - thus creating jobs - and to funding &quot;just transition&quot; programmes for affected workers. 
 
- EMISSIONS TRADING, under which a country, industry or company can purchase part of another's right to emit climate change gases, receives qualified support. &quot;ICEM unions should give serious consideration to supporting emissions trading both within and amongst nations. The main caveat is that emission-trading systems should not be relied upon to be the primary means of reducing emissions, as that will unfairly penalise ICEM industries and workers because emission-trading will focus on carbon dioxide and the energy industries to the exclusion of other greenhouse gases and other emission sources.&quot; 
 
- TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER is vital if the world is to be united in its efforts to tackle climate change. &quot;ICEM unions in both developed and developing countries have a major interest in the transfer of appropriate technology to developing countries to help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. However, the transfer of such technologies should involve more than a simple 'zero sum' achievement where jobs are concerned - such that the transfer costs are not predominantly borne by workers.&quot; 
 
- THE UN'S INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION, THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE OECD must be pressed &quot;to address, in particular, the implications for job security and job creation of the various climate change mitigation measures being considered.&quot; To that end, the ICEM will continue to actively support a climate change discussion launched between TUAC and BIAC, the union and employer advisory committees to the OECD. 
 
- In general, DIALOGUE BETWEEN UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS ON CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION MEASURES is essential. Particularly important are &quot;shared commitments to energy efficiency, energy conservation and emissions in ICEM industries.&quot; In many such industries, &quot;there is substantial scope to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. In some cases these do not require large capital investments and are able to reduce costs to business. Workers can be one of the drivers for this change if they are empowered to do so.&quot; 
 
- One way of building up workers' interest and participation in this issue is to INCLUDE ENVIRONMENTAL TARGETS IN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Where environmental measures actually save the company money, &quot;the bargaining arrangements should provide for sharing of the financial gains.&quot; Where such measures entail additional costs and/or adversely affect a firm's market position, &quot;collective bargaining should provide for consultation over least-cost responses, including minimisation of job losses.&quot; 
 
<a href="/wp-content/migration/icem/labourandclimatechangeEN.pdf">Labour And Climate Change 
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<a href="/wp-content/migration/icem/LabourAndClimateChangeFR.pdf">Monde du Travail et Changement climatique</a> 
 
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<a href="/wp-content/migration/icem/LabourAndClimateChangeSP.pdf">El trabajo y el cambio clim&aacute;tico 
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Environment? Employment? We Can Have Both!

The world's pharmaceutical and allied workers' unions today issued a strong protest over plans by multinational Roche to cut 3,000 jobs. 
 
Roche workers in the US, Britain and Switzerland will be hit particularly hard by the dismissals. Announced last night, the cutbacks have already caused protest demonstrations in Basle, Switzerland. Roche currently employs some 65,000 people worldwide, of which about 41,000 are in the pharmaceutical sector. 
 
Roche's decision is &quot;one more example of an economic logic that prescribes the maximisation of profits, to the greater good of shareholders and the detriment of wage-earners.&quot; So says the 20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) in an emergency resolution adopted by its Executive in Brussels today. 
 
The ICEM denounces &quot;this short-term economic vision which seeks to sacrifice the interests of employees and of the community in order to achieve immediate high returns on capital.&quot; It encourages its affiliated unions to &quot;organise at the international level, so as to resist these job cuts and remind Roche of its social responsibilities.&quot;

World&#039;s Pharma Unions Protest Roche Job Cuts

Worker shareholders at energy multinational Unocal&rsquo;s annual meeting in the US yesterday challenged the company&rsquo;s support for the Burmese military dictatorship. 
 
Representatives of the US national trade union federation AFL-CIO and the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers&rsquo; Unions (ICEM) supported two shareholder resolutions addressing Unocal&rsquo;s involvement in human rights abuses in Burma. 
 
One of the largest pension funds in the world, the California Public Employees&rsquo; Retirement System (CalPERS), announced that it was voting for the two resolutions. CalPERS has assets totalling more than US$ 151 billion. 
 
Proponents of the resolutions contend that the company&rsquo;s involvement in Burma creates substantial risk. Unocal is the only US-based company with significant direct investments in the Burmese oil and gas industry, one of the country&rsquo;s most strategic sectors. 
 
&quot;Working people who invest in Unocal want to make sure that the company isn&rsquo;t propping up the military regime in Burma, which condones forced labour and other human rights abuses,&quot; said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. &quot;It&rsquo;s about time that the company starts focusing on creating long-term sustainable value, which includes becoming a good corporate citizen and minimising its risk exposure to serious human rights violations.&quot; 
 
The first resolution, sponsored by the LongView Collective Investment Fund of the Amalgamated Bank of New York, urged the Unocal board of directors to adopt, implement and enforce a code of conduct based on workplace human rights standards set by the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO). 
 
The second resolution, sponsored by Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, the Interfaith Center of Corporate Responsibility, As You Sow Foundation, and Walden Asset Management, urged the Unocal board of directors to appoint a special committee of the board to review ways to link executive compensation with the company&rsquo;s ethical and social performance. 
 
DISINVESTMENT CALLS GROW 
 
In November 2000, the ILO approved a resolution urging its member governments, employers and unions to &quot;review their relations with Burma&quot; and &quot;ensure that such relations do not perpetuate the system of forced or compulsory labour in that country.&quot; 
 
A recent proclamation issued by the ICEM's energy union affiliates from the Asia/Pacific region, meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, called on oil and gas companies to &quot;cease investment in Burma while the use of forced labour continues.&quot; The unions represented were from Australia, Bangladesh, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The ICEM is a global trade union federation uniting more than 20 million workers. 
 
Yesterday's shareholder resolutions were voted down at the Unocal meeting, but they contributed to the growing disquiet among Unocal shareholders about the company's involvement in Burma. 
 
Unocal may face significant liabilities because of its investments there. The company is a participant in a US$ 1.2 billion joint venture with the Burmese government in the Yadana gas pipeline, a project on which forced labour was used. 
 
A lawsuit against Unocal by Burmese plaintiffs in a US district court in California was dismissed last August but is currently under appeal. Judge Ronald Lew stated in his opinion: &quot;The evidence does suggest that Unocal knew that forced labour was being utilised and the Joint Venturers (including Unocal) benefited from the practice.&quot; In addition, a federal court has now ruled that a similar case can proceed in a state court, addressing Unocal&rsquo;s involvement in human rights violations. 
 
Since the beginning of this year, Unocal has had a new CEO, Charles R. Williamson, and a new chairman of the board, John W. Creighton, raising expectations that the company will reassess its Burmese operations.

Burma Rights Violations: Unocal Urged to Withdraw

Worker shareholders are stepping up their global campaign to end corporate support for Burma's military dictatorship. 
 
At Halliburton's annual meeting in the US today, union representatives will speak in favour of a shareholder resolution addressing the company's involvement in human rights abuses in Burma. 
 
The union speakers will be from the 20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) and the US national labour federation AFL-CIO. 
 
Halliburton, the energy giant formerly headed by American Vice-President Dick Cheney, is one of the few US-based companies with investments in Burma. The Burmese government is noted for massive human rights violations and involvement in narcotics trafficking. 
 
The shareholder resolution, sponsored by the LongView Collective Investment Fund of the Amalgamated Bank of New York, urges the Halliburton board of directors to report on the company's operations in Burma. The resolution asks what steps Halliburton has taken to ensure &quot;that neither Halliburton nor any of its subsidiaries is involved in or appears to benefit from the use of forced labour or other human rights abuses in Burma.&quot; 
 
&quot;Working people who invest in Halliburton want to know if its operations in Burma prop up a military regime which condones forced labour and other human rights abuses,&quot; said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. &quot;The LongView resolution at Halliburton is a positive measure in the best interests of its shareholders that will lead toward compliance with internationally-recognised workers' rights.&quot; 
DISINVESTMENT CALL 
 
In November 2000, the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) approved a resolution urging members to &quot;review their relations with Burma&quot; and &quot;ensure that such relations do not perpetuate the system of forced or compulsory labour in that country.&quot; 
 
&quot;The ILO has clearly ruled that forced labour is continuing and systematic in Burma, and our energy unions in that region have made their views very plain,&quot; said Fred Higgs, ICEM General Secretary. &quot;We call upon Halliburton to disinvest from Burma. We cannot condone any economic activity which directly or indirectly supports the regime in Burma until full democracy and human rights, including workers' rights, are restored there.&quot; 
 
A recent proclamation issued by the ICEM's energy union affiliates from the Asia/Pacific region, meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, called on oil and gas companies to &quot;cease investment in Burma while the use of forced labor continues.&quot; The unions represented were from Australia, Bangladesh, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The ICEM is a global trade union federation uniting 20 million workers in 390 affiliated unions in 107 countries. 
 
Halliburton's recent activities in Burma include its participation in the Yadana pipeline, a project that used forced labour. The Yadana pipeline is one of the largest foreign investments in Burma, projected to provide the military-controlled regime with US$150-400 million annually for decades. Unocal, another US company doing business in Burma, is being sued by victims of forced labour on the Yadana project. Halliburton's involvement in the Yadana project occurred during Vice-President Cheney's tenure as CEO of the company. 
 
In addition, Halliburton has been instrumental in efforts to oppose sanctions on Burma through its strong involvement with USA-Engage and the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), two powerful industry groups. Vice-President Cheney last autumn defended his former company's operations on the CNN talkshow Larry King Live. Cheney stated that &quot;you have to operate in some very difficult places and oftentimes in countries that are governed in a manner that's not consistent with our principles here in the United States.&quot; 
 
&quot;The struggle for human and workplace rights in Burma has been critical for our union for many years,&quot; notes Joe Drexler, Director of Special Projects of ICEM American affiliate the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union (PACE). &quot;Our members don't want their retirement savings invested by Halliburton in brutal dictatorships that use forced labour. It's just wrong.&quot; PACE represents workers in the US oil and gas industry. 
 
The situation in Burma violates the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, including the right to no forced labour. Unions around the world have recently launched a campaign to make sure workers know these rights, distributing an ILO-produced poster (see below) in workplaces and communities worldwide.

Unions Challenge Halliburton Over Burma Ties

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Retired US Continental Tyre Workers Take Protest to Germany

Chemical Workers’ Union of Singapore Signs Pact with 20 Firms

Azeri Oil and Gas Workers’ Union Achieves Historic Pact with SOCAR

ICEM Website Set for GUF’s World Congress

Colombian Killings: 63 Trade Unionists Murdered Since January

Pakistan Power Workers Strike After Leader's Arrest

Environment? Employment? We Can Have Both!

World's Pharma Unions Protest Roche Job Cuts

Burma Rights Violations: Unocal Urged to Withdraw

Unions Challenge Halliburton Over Burma Ties

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