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	Global Labour&rsquo;s &ldquo;World Day for Decent Work&rdquo; two week ago presented a vast swath of economic, social, and neglectful work rights and gender issues assailing societies in all corners of the world. 
	 
	Workers&rsquo; representatives throughout the world, however, spoke with a unified voice in the days leading up to and following 7 October. That voice called for a dramatic shift to a new globalisation that includes stable and quality jobs, broader social protections, and the assurance that every worker has the right to form and join a trade union, as well as the right to bargain collectively with employers. 
	 
	Activities of one manner or another occurred in over 100 countries, and those activities were as diverse as how to achieve decent work is wide. A sampling of those activities follows in this report. 
	 
	In Finland, the Council of Industrial Unions TP used 7 October to issue a statement aimed at all Finnish multinationals. That statement called on MNCs Stora Enso, UPM, Botnia, Kemira, YIT, Outokumpu, Kone, Mets&auml;, and Konecranes to begin discussions toward signing Global Framework Agreements with respective trade unions in Finland, and Global Union Federations.

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	The 12-member council&rsquo;s statement expressed concern &ldquo;that the reputation of (Finnish) companies will suffer in the long run if they continue doing business &hellip; with disrespect for the ILO&rsquo;s core labour standards.&rdquo; The statement added: &ldquo;When a company has a negative attitude towards the organisation of personnel in its foreign units, (that) company dampens any enthusiasm for collective bargaining in Finland as well.&rdquo; 
	 
	The statement said other Nordic countries are more advanced than Finland, with companies based elsewhere more apt to sign global agreements. 
	 
	In Norway, the national centre LO commended a seven-point strategy put forward by the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion for Decent Work, strategies placed before legislative bodies shaping the 2009 State Budget. In addition to seven points built around global workers&rsquo; rights, the Ministry&rsquo;s statement includes ethical guidelines for the government pension fund to &ldquo;include conditions for workers in the companies in (the fund&rsquo;s) investment universe.&rdquo; 
	 
	&ldquo;We are very happy about this,&rdquo; said LO Chairman Roar Fl&aring;then. &ldquo;It shows that our government puts an emphasis on this issue, and that they want to strengthen workers&rsquo; rights on many fronts.&rdquo; 
	 
	The motto &ldquo;social inclusion&rdquo; took a different tone in Canada. There, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) used 7 October and the run-up to federal parliamentary elections to call attention to the lack of rights for 200,000 labourers in the country, classified as &ldquo;temporary foreign workers.&rdquo; The CLC says 59% of those workers are women. 
	 
	&ldquo;Most of these women don&rsquo;t see Canada as the land of equality and opportunity,&rdquo; read a CLC statement. &ldquo;Their status breeds abuse, exploitation, and social exclusion.&rdquo;

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	One of the symposiums held in London&rsquo;s Congress House &ndash; home to UK&rsquo;s Trades Union Congress (TUC) &ndash; was a forum on women&rsquo;s work issues, particularly issues relating to the informal economy. This workshop saw inequality and the gender gap as major roadblocks to implementation of the ILO&rsquo;s decent work agenda. 
	 
	Presenters included NGOs who champion labour rights for women: Women Working Worldwide, the National Group on Homeworking, the Central American Women&rsquo;s Network, and Homeworkers&rsquo; Worldwide. The session was moderated by the Women in the Informal Economy Globalising and Organising (WIEGO).

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	In Ireland, an opinion piece published in newspapers by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) cited the number of low-wage, non-secure jobs created in the country between the year 2000 and 2006. The vast majority of those jobs are filled by youth between the ages of 15 and 24 who have a secondary education or less. 
	 
	&ldquo;With such a tremendous downward pressure on pay and standards at home and abroad,&rdquo; said the ITUC, World Day for Decent Work &ldquo;marks a timely and much-needed attempt to reverse that trend and exert a countervailing upward pressure.&rdquo; 
	 
	French manifestations on World Day for Decent Work focused on the global financial crisis. The erosion of savings, pension investments, and loss of well-paying jobs was the battle cry at marches held in Paris, Marseille, Nantes, and Lyon, with some 90 separate protests organised by unions nation-wide.

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	above and below: 3 October rally in Moldova&nbsp;

	In Moldova, ICEM affiliate, the Federation of Chemical and Energy Workers&rsquo; Unions of Moldova (FCERWUM), together with the Construction and Materials Workers&rsquo; Unions federation, held a rally on 3 October in Chişinău entitled &ldquo;Decent Work &ndash; Decent Remuneration.&rdquo; The goal was to bring public attention to the human need for proper work life that does not strip people of their dignity, but rather ensures full development of working potential. 
	 
	FCERWUM President Nicolae Stratila addressed the rally and stated workers in Moldova must exert greater vigilance against the use of contract and agency labour. On 7 October, FCERWUM took part in a roundtable discussion organised by the nation&rsquo;s National Trade Union Confederation in which the issue of precarious employment was focal.

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	Three national labour centres in Russia conducted meetings and seminars in several cities. In Moscow, some 72 trade unionists picketed 56 metro stations during morning rush-hour commuter traffic on 7 October. They held placards and passed handbills that linked a decent wage to indexation, pensions at no less than 40% of wages, and collective agreements that contain social standards. 
	 
	In Serbia, the ICEM was part of a multi-country, week-long youth conference in the town of Bela Crkva. Sponsored by ICEM affiliate Nezavisnost, the conference saw young trade union leaders take part in workshops and discussions on the different aspects of decent work. What&rsquo;s more, the conference &ndash; now an annual event &ndash; stressed Balkan unity; trade unions from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia sent leaders-in-formation.

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	Bela Crkva, Serbia

	In Romania, four national labour centre federations came together for a rally in Bucharest that drew 7,000 trade unionists. They called for pay increases across all work sectors, as well as for the government of Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu to get serious about workplace safety. The rally was staged in front of the National Parliament. 
	 
	The Pakistan Workers&rsquo; Federation conducted symposiums and meetings in eight cities on 7 October. In Lahore, at the Bakhtiar Labour Centre, a large gathering included government labour officials and representatives from employers&rsquo; groupings. There, the call for amendments to Pakistan&rsquo;s labour code rang out, as did the harm that privatisation of the country&rsquo;s electric supply systems would bring. 
	 
	Other forums occurred in Karachi, Hyderabad, Quetta, Sukka, Multan, Faisalabad, and Peshawar.

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	One of ICEM&rsquo;s affiliates in New Zealand, the Engineering, Printing, and Manufacturing Union (EPMU), on 7 October highlighted its national advertising campaign, which is entitled &ldquo;They Stand for greed/We Stand for Decent Work.&rdquo; An EPMU statement called the growing trend of contract and agency labour a serious affront to decent wages and living standards. 
	 
	&ldquo;They call it flexibility, but it&rsquo;s a device to disempower workers,&rdquo; stated EPMU National Secretary Andrew Little. It&rsquo;s an effort &ldquo;to make it harder for them to negotiate with the real users of their labour.&rdquo;

	In Mauritius, the ICEM&#039;s African Regional Coordinator Fabian Nkomo took part in affiliate&#039;s Chemicam, Manufacturing, and Conected Trades Workers&#039; Union unveiling of a monument signifying the union&#039;s&nbsp;campaign against COntract and Agency Labour.

	The sculpture was dedicated on 7 October.

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	Unveiling of Monument (rear) Dedicated to Fight Against Contract and Agency Labour in Mauritius

	In Brussels, following the presentation by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) of a petition to the European Commission on 7 October, EU Employment Commissioner Vladimir Spidla did make a statement. He told trade union leaders that 80% of the world&rsquo;s workers do not have adequate social protection. 
	 
	Spidla did promise that the Commission&rsquo;s renewed social agenda, put forward in July 2008, would attempt to improve work-life circumstances for all EU workers. He also noted that all EU member-states have ratified the ILO&rsquo;s core labour standards. 
	 
	In Kenya, ITUC-Africa Secretary General Kwasi Adu-Amankwah sounded a different alarm. He said at a Decent Work conference in Nairobi that Economic Partnership Agreements must be challenged in order to preserve jobs. Governments in developing countries, he stated, must &ldquo;put employment creation at the centre of all trade and investment policies that affect Africa.&rdquo;

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	Kwasi Adu-Amankwah also cited a UN report, issued only in September, which states African trade liberalisation policies have shown an export market-share drop from 6% to 3% of world trade over the past 20 years. This roughly matches the same period in which structural adjustment programmes have been imposed by world organisations on African nations. 
	 
	In Mauritania, the situation is worse. Six unions called for an afternoon demonstration on 7 October in support for safe working conditions and against the military junta now running the country. The manifestation was banned and riot police were out in force, preventing trade unionists from assembling.

7 October &#039;World Day for Decent Work&#039; Gave Labour a Catalogue of Diverse Activities

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The continuing collective bargaining dispute between ICEM&rsquo;s North American affiliate, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, and French multinational LaFarge in Sugar Creek, Missouri, received keen focus in Paris recently. The ICEM, together with the Building and Woodworkers&rsquo; International (BWI) &ndash; co-signatories to a Global Framework Agreement with the company &ndash; brought the dispute before the company and French and other unions on 3 October. 
 
At a cement manufacturing plant in Sugar Creek, Lafarge seeks to dramatically change retiree medical coverage in collective negotiations with Boilermakers Local D-27. It seeks to exclude new workers from retiree health coverage altogether, while proposing to move existing workers to another, inferior medical plan upon retirement. 
 
That plan, if accepted, could see retirees&rsquo; pay double for their health care costs. The existing plan now finds pensioners paying US$254-per-month for family health coverage.
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In a statement issued following the meeting, the ICEM, BWI, Boilermakers, and the other unions said: &ldquo;We believe that the leading companies of our industry have a social responsibility that extends beyond the borders of the home country. When companies fail to meet their responsibilities around the world, it is a threat to workers everywhere. We therefore pledge to strengthen and mobilise our international network in support of the world&rsquo;s cement industry workers. 
 
&ldquo;At this moment, Lafarge is not meeting its social responsibility to the workers in the community of Sugar Creek, Missouri in the United States. We call on Lafarge to meet and negotiate in good faith with Boilermakers Local Lodge D-27 for a new contract that does not discriminate against workers on the basis of age and offers all workers the opportunity for a retirement with dignity.&rdquo; 
 
Boilermakers Vice President Warren Fairly said global intervention in Missouri is necessary because if Lafarge halts its social responsibility on providing basic benefits in the US, the pressure to concede basic rights and social benefits in the company&rsquo;s European operations can be &ldquo;foreseen in the near future.&rdquo; 
 
North American and European unions, together with the ICEM and BWI, met in Paris on 3-4 October over matters with Lafarge and Swiss cement company Holcim. Trade unions taking part included the Boilermakers, United Steelworkers, Laborers&rsquo; International, and Teamsters of the US, Unia of Switzerland, as well as French trade unions CFDT, FO, CFTC, and CGT. 
 
The dispute for 55 members of the Boilermakers Union in the state of Missouri has been ongoing since expiration of a prior four-year labour agreement on 30 April 2008.

ICEM, BWI, US Boilermakers Bring LaFarge USA Dispute to Company in Paris

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An important new law was enacted in the US state of Illinois on 6 August 2007, when the state&rsquo;s governor, Rod Blagojevich, signed into force a bar on construction companies falsely classifying workers as &ldquo;independent contractors.&rdquo; The new law in the midwestern state is seen as a harbinger for what could occur across the US nationally, considering the coming political ballots, and George Bush&rsquo;s mandatory departure. 
 
&ldquo;Misclassification of employees as independent contractors is one of the devices that greedy employers use to cheat workers out of their benefits,&rdquo; said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, who joined Blagojevich and other proponents of the regulation at the 6 August signing ceremony. 
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AFL-CIO President John Sweeney
The measure, passed by the Illinois Senate and House of Representatives early in the year, had broad support, including labour and scores of legitimate construction companies. These firms, relying on skilled, generally unionised workers, have been left at a competitive disadvantage by unscrupulous employers, who deliberately mis-classify workers as contractors in order to reduce their operating costs. In Illinois, estimates say that such nefarious enterprises save an average of 24% in submitting bids on projects. 
The law in Illinois, introduced as the Employee Classification Act, presumes all workers are regular employees unless certain conditions exist, such as being a partner or sole proprietor, a specific business or profession, or providing a service outside of the usual course of business. The law, the fifth such statute among the US&rsquo;s 50 state laws, includes US$2,500 penalties on companies that deliberately misclassify construction workers. Repeat offenders can face felony charges. 
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A university study found Illinois losing an average of US$125.7 million annually in tax revenue over a five-year period in the early 2000s. Cut-rate employers avoid paying Social Security, workers&rsquo; compensation benefits, jobless relief, state and federal taxes, and other social costs. Sweeney stated that such tax revenue losses deprive governments of immediate funds that could address &ldquo;so many vital programs.&rdquo; 
 
The US Congress, in the House of Representatives, took up the independent contractor issue in hearings last March, but has yet to act on legislation that could update US labour code on this crucial workplace issue.

US Building Workers Win Ban on Contract Labour in Illinois State

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ICEM affiliate Unite and the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC) have jointly called on the UK&rsquo;s Health &amp; Safety Executive (HSE) to investigate Royal Dutch Shell&rsquo;s safety practices at five North Sea energy platforms. The installations are currently up for sale, and Unite and OILC say low morale, coupled with departures of key staff that are familiar with safety procedures, creates very risky conditions. 
 
The five platforms include Cormorant Alpha, Dunlin Alpha (CADA), Tern, Eider, and North Cormorant (TENC). Some 400 Shell workers are affected. 
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In early August, Shell experienced a blackout at its Brent Bravo rig in the North Sea, stranding 61 workers for 48 hours. Shell said it did not want to risk a rescue at night, but the company faced questions on its slow response time in rescue. In 2003, a gas leak on the same rig killed two workers. Now, with key personnel leaving five other Shell rigs, safety again is a major issue. 
 
&ldquo;Many platform areas are now not covered by trained and competent people and certain HSE safety critical roles are not fully supported,&rdquo; Unite said in a joint statement. &ldquo;The gaps in these safety-critical positions could be so severe that, in the event of an emergency, staff may be unable to cope.&rdquo; 
 
Unite said such conditions are leading to a breakdown in communications between Shell and its workers, and it is affecting morale. 
 
Upstream publication reported last week that claims reveal safety deficiencies in control room operations, shift supervisors, and technical capacities regarding instrumentation and electrical. &ldquo;It is reported that on some platforms there is now a lack of suitable trained fire team leaders,&rdquo; reported the oil and gas trade weekly. 
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Meanwhile, separately, the head of the HSE&rsquo;s Offshore Division, Ian Whewell, delivered a stark address to industry leaders at an Offshore Europe forum in Aberdeen. He called it unfortunate that offshore companies consider it a regulatory nuisance to comply with safety standards. 
He also fully endorsed worker involvement in safety, and his comment on participation counters the reality now occurring at Shell: &ldquo;The commitment of many in the offshore workforce is undoubted, but HSE believes that unless the workforce is encouraged to actively participate, the industry is missing a key opportunity.&rdquo; 
 
ExxonMobil&rsquo;s Esso division also announced in June 2007 that it would divest in North Sea production facilities.

Shell’s Redundancies Causing Safety Deficiencies on North Sea Platforms

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Belgium&rsquo;s FGTB Union has raised awareness to the number of workplace fatalities occurring in Saint-Gobain operations, particularly in China. The ICEM affiliate is voicing concern because of the French multinational&rsquo;s own admittance that it counts 21 fatalities so far in 2007. 
 
Three of those fatalities have come in Chinese operations of the Paris-based company since June. The FGTB is calling for a trade union analysis of the company&rsquo;s safety procedures, and a greater emphasis on preventative measures. 
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The union also stresses that support and solidarity to Saint-Gobain must occur when accidents and fatalies do happen, including stop-work actions to attend funerals and communiqu&eacute;s and distribution of information when accidents occur. 
 
The company has cited a worker at a Beijing, who was crushed to death by a falling machine part on 22 June; another worker killed in a Hanglas plant in Wehai City on 27 June by an &ldquo;unexplained fall of a heavy metallic piece;&rdquo; and a woman killed at another Hunglas plant in Kunshan on 12 July by a loaded fork-lift. In addition, a sub-contractor was killed in Gunsan, South Korea, on 20 June during a gas leak in a confined space, and a French delivery driver was buried when a wall collapsed in Cagnes sur Mer on 18 July. 
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Saint-Gobain also reported heart attacks occurring on the job in Brazil, South Korea, and the US, and workers dying due to road accidents in France and Brazil. Early in 2007, the company was fined &pound;10,000 by UK&rsquo;s Health &amp; Safety Executive due to a four-tonne runaway truck seriously injuring a worker at a facility in Ilkeston, UK.
And last year, the French company lost a US$3.06 million judgement after a gas blast severely burned sub-contractors sued for damages. They had been hired at a Grandview, state of Missouri, glass plant of Saint-Gobain Calmar to remove a heating unit line, and were told by the company that all gas had been removed from the line. 
 
Last year, the company said the average rate of daily injuries occurring in its global operations had been reduced to six.

Questions Raised on Number of 2007 Workplace Tragedies by Saint-Gobain

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French unions have vowed to mobilise in the coming weeks over the news that European energy companies Gaz de France and Belgian-Franco Suez Group are finally on cue to merge. French trade unions CGT, CFDT, FO, CGF-CGC, and CFTC pledged last week that they will again escalate resistance to further consolidation of Europe&rsquo;s energy markets. 
 
The French unions have banded together many times in the past to place roadblocks and barriers in the form of lawsuits and social dissent against the long planned merger. French President Nicholas Sarkozy has now become the catalyst to push the deal through. 
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The merger that would create the world&rsquo;s third largest utility contradicts a European Commission priority to place more competition in gas and electric markets. It angers the French unions, and French citizens alike, who remember Sarkozy as the Finance Minister that promised Gaz de France would never fall below 70% of a state-controlled public asset. 
 
The &euro;90 billion merger would reduce France&rsquo;s stake in the combined company to roughly 35% from 80.2%. The Sarkozy government now heralds a 35% stake as &ldquo;controlling&rdquo; and says the state will be a &ldquo;rational shareholder.&rdquo; 
 
The French unions, however, must now wrestle with the effects of a potential deal with sell-offs, redundancies, and likely cost cutting by equity stakes that sweep in on mandated divestitures. Such businesses that will be separated include waste disposal and water, with a new GDF Suez to become Europe&rsquo;s largest supplier of natural gas and the world&rsquo;s largest storage terminal operator for LNG. 
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The five unions will build resistance through consumer groups and political pressure, as well as mass mobilisations across France. They announced they will also conduct a national petition. 
 
The CGT predicted that consumers will be harmed by rising prices, and said the French stake at 35% will offer little in protection of workers or consumers. The CFDT said European partners ought to take Sarkozy&rsquo;s new claim, &ldquo;at the very least, as arrogant&rdquo; and the Commission itself must consider the social consequences that mandated divestitures will bring to public utilities. CFDT said the current merger plan essentially dismantles the Suez Group, while effectively privatising Gaz de France.

Broken Sarkozy Promise on Gaz de France and Suez Means French Unions Will Mobilise

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We sharply repudiate the deliberate actions by the Colombian government to go against its function of being the counterweight between the weakest in society and the economic elite, taking advantage of the legal apparatus to attack trade union institutions legitimately elected by the workers, to break collective agreements , to close companies and reopen them with a different legal personality, with the specific aim of breaking the back of these organizations and voiding legally concluded collective agreements, with the explicit objective of lowering wages and salaries, eliminating rights and benefits and making work precarious. 
We protest against the systematic violation of ILO conventions by the Uribe government, primarily conventions 87 and 98. We demand an end to this persecution and the murders of trade union leaders in Colombia. 
 
Resolution passed at the ICEM Latin American Energy Meeting, 29 and 30 August 2007, Montevideo, Uruguay.

ICEM resolution on Colombia - ICEM Latin America energy meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay

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The participants at the ICEM Latin American Energy Meeting declare that trade unions always pronounce themselves clearly and decisively for solidarity among workers in our region and on our continent. 
This consistency and this solidarity have always guided our actions, which mean that we are siding with our Peruvian brothers in these difficult times of reconstruction of cities and respect for those who lost lives in the recent earthquake.
Resolution passed at the ICEM Latin American Energy Meeting, 29 and 30 August 2007, Montevideo, Uruguay.

ICEM Resolution on Peruvian earthquakes - ICEM Latin America energy meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay

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A four-day industrial action by 600 contracted tank-truck drivers will end tomorrow morning, 17 June, at 06h00. But ICEM affiliate Unite has said another four-day action could begin on Friday, 20 June, if fair pay awards are not given in bargaining this week. 
 
The strike, which began in the early morning hours of 13 June, is against Royal Dutch Shell and two of its contract haulers, German-based Hoyer UK and J.W. Suckling Transport Ltd., wholly owned by UK&rsquo;s Harris Holdings. 

Unite Assistant General Secretary and negotiator Len McCluskey, while walking picket lines at Shell&rsquo;s Stanlow refinery in Essex over the weekend, said that mediated talks would resume today with the two companies. The weekend strike has crimped petrol supplies at Shell&rsquo;s 950 retail stations across the UK, and has had a knock-on effect since drivers delivering fuel for BP, Total, and Esso have refused to cross picket lines at Shell&rsquo;s depots and terminals. 

McCluskey said late last week that the &ldquo;dispute could have been resolved if Shell had advanced a fraction of the billions of pounds in profit they make every month&rdquo; to the contract haulers. He said with Shell intervention, the dispute could have been settled &ldquo;for a sum smaller than the chairman's pay increase last year.&rdquo;
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Unite Joint General Secretary Tony Woodley also said Shell could resolve the dispute if it increased payments to the contract companies. He told the British newspaper the Guardian that the Anglo-Dutch company makes profits of &pound;1.5 million a month, and it would cost &pound;1 million to settle the dispute. 
 
Unite is seeking a minimum gross salary of &pound;36,000 per year, about &pound;2,000 more than the contract drivers&rsquo; current gross pay. The drivers work an average 48-hour workweek, including an extra shift added every second week. The contract haulers have offered only a 0.5% wage increase. 
 
Ron Webb, Unite&rsquo;s National Secretary for Road Transport and the chief negotiator, said a second wave of strikes is scheduled for 20-24 June if negotiations before UK&rsquo;s Advisory, Conciliation, and Mediation Services (ACAS) beginning today are not successful. Unite has scheduled a mass meeting of drivers, including tank-truck drivers from other petrol and transport companies, for Wednesday, 18 June, in London. 
 
Shell began contracting out its delivery supplies of petrol in the UK in 1992.

Contract Tank-Truck Drivers Ready for Round 2 Petrol Strike in UK

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Pilkington glass workers in New Zealand, represented by Engineering, Paper and Manufacturing Union (EPMU) will decide tomorrow night, 14 August, whether or not to escalate industrial actions. During the first days of August, EPMU members at the Hamilton glass plant began a seven-day overtime ban because of a pay dispute. 
 
That was extended last week and union members at another Pilkington plant in Auckland met and agreed to support the Hamilton workers&rsquo; job actions. The Auckland workforce, represented by EPMU, was forced to take nine days of job actions last year in a pay dispute. In 2006, UK-based Pilkington was bought by Nippon Sheet Glass for &euro;3.2 billion, in a move to strengthen the Japanese company&rsquo;s presence in Asia, particularly China.
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&ldquo;The company&rsquo;s arguing over a quarter of a percent (in Hamilton), and frankly the members are getting sick of this kind of penny-pinching &hellip; the members are simply asking for their fair share,&rdquo; said an EPMU representative, as quoted on the union&rsquo;s website.

Pilkington Workers in Glass Dispute in New Zealand

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7 October 'World Day for Decent Work' Gave Labour a Catalogue of Diverse Activities

ICEM, BWI, US Boilermakers Bring LaFarge USA Dispute to Company in Paris

US Building Workers Win Ban on Contract Labour in Illinois State

Shell’s Redundancies Causing Safety Deficiencies on North Sea Platforms

Questions Raised on Number of 2007 Workplace Tragedies by Saint-Gobain

Broken Sarkozy Promise on Gaz de France and Suez Means French Unions Will Mobilise

ICEM resolution on Colombia - ICEM Latin America energy meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay

ICEM Resolution on Peruvian earthquakes - ICEM Latin America energy meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay

Contract Tank-Truck Drivers Ready for Round 2 Petrol Strike in UK

Pilkington Workers in Glass Dispute in New Zealand

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