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German IGBCE, French FCE CFDT and EMCEF, the European workers&rsquo; federation in chemical, energy and mining sectors, met in Paris 4 May and issued a declaration on the impending Sanofi-Synthelabo and Aventis pharmaceutical merger. The combined firm&rsquo;s two biggest unions vowed to prevent site closures and job loss, maintain existing rights and obligations, and asks that the new management team be innovative inside the framework of existing social dialogue.

German, French Unions Meet over Aventis, Sanofi Merger

Global tyremaker Continental faced coordinated protests on both sides of the Atlantic over the past 24 hours by union leaders from 16 countries. 
 
Demonstrations took place in Akron, Ohio - a centre of the US rubber industry - and in London, England, where the tyre industry is holding a major European trade exhibition. Coordinating the campaign is the 20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM), which represents tyre workers worldwide. 
 
The current protests centre on Continental's treatment of striking (and locked-out) workers at its General Tire plant in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. But union leaders have also voiced concern over the company's declared worldwide strategy of shifting production to &quot;low-cost&quot; areas. 
 
The core issue in the American dispute is that &quot;Conti&quot; is refusing to pay the going rate among leading employers of US tyre workers, even though the plant is now profitable. The American workers accuse Conti of failing to bargain in good faith and of trying to break the Charlotte local of their union, the USWA. After provoking a strike, the company drafted in &quot;permanent replacement&quot; workers last September, thus effectively locking out and dismissing the strikers. 
 
In 1995, after Continental bought General Tire, the workers bailed out the Charlotte plant by &quot;giving back&quot; about 90 million dollars in pay and benefits cuts. Charlotte is now showing a healthy profit, but the company is still refusing to bring its pay and conditions up to standard. 
 
Taking part in the Akron protests yesterday were tyre workers' leaders from ICEM-affiliated unions in Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Malaysia, Morocco, Slovenia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the USA and Venezuela. Their demo was held in front of a retail outlet that sells Conti tyres. 
 
And in London this morning, protesters from ICEM-affiliated British unions rolled bald tyres up and down outside the TYREXPO Europe 99 exhibition. Time To Run Continental's Greed Off The Road proclaimed one placard at the London demo, while another said Reinstate 1,450 Sacked Continental Workers In North Carolina USA. 
 
&quot;We will take our campaign against Continental to wherever they do business, here or abroad,&quot; John Sellers pledged in Akron yesterday. Sellers is Executive Vice-President of the USWA and heads the union's Rubber And Plastics Industry Conference. &quot;German multinational corporations would not be allowed to abuse workers this way in Germany,&quot; Sellers declared, &quot;and we're not going to tolerate such behaviour in the United States, either.&quot; 
 
&quot;We are proud to join forces with our American brothers and sisters in protesting against Continental's actions in Charlotte,&quot; said British union leader Bert Hill. He is from British ICEM affiliate the GMB, which organises workers at Continental's Newbridge tyre plant in Scotland. Hill is currently in Akron. 
 
&quot;Continental has been systematically trying to wrest concessions from our members in Scotland,&quot; he stated, &quot;and we know we have to stand together in solidarity with other Continental workers in other countries against our common employer.&quot; 
 
 
UNIONS DRAW UP GLOBAL STRATEGY 
 
Hill and union leaders from Germany, France, Turkey, South Africa and the US met yesterday to plan a common strategy to support the Charlotte strikers. 
 
&quot;Continental's actions in the United States are a disgrace,&quot; said Jacques Caltot, who heads the rubber division of the ICEM-affiliated French union FCE-CFDT. &quot;We will continue to press Continental to adhere to international labour standards wherever it does business, and we will support the USWA strike in Charlotte until a fair and just agreement can be reached.&quot; 
 
&quot;The situation at Continental is typical of a problem that we are going to have to tackle globally,&quot; commented ICEM Vice-President Fred Higgs just after the London demo. &quot;Companies that pride themselves on being respectable employers in Europe often act very differently in contexts like the United States. We are going to be exerting the fullest possible pressure to secure the reinstatement of all the 1,450 Charlotte workers who have been so unjustly and ungratefully treated by Continental.&quot; 
 
Also heading up the London demo was Earl Pabst, President of the union local in Charlotte. 
 
&quot;The support over here is even stronger than I had imagined,&quot; Pabst said. &quot;Today's event has taken our message to another level.&quot; 
 
Asked what he wanted as a next step, Pabst replied: &quot;I want the scabs [strikebreakers] out and us back in.&quot; 
 
Meanwhile, he said, the union would be expanding an &quot;informational campaign&quot; of leafletting customers outside US retailers that sell Continental tyres. &quot;We're now contacting retailers across the USA,&quot; Pabst added. &quot;We're telling them who we are and what we want, and we're explaining that we're with them, not against them.&quot; 
 
In Akron, ICEM General Secretary Vic Thorpe pledged continuing global union support for the American workers' campaign. 
 
&quot;Our affiliated unions around the world are behind the USWA,&quot; Thorpe said. &quot;We will show Continental there are serious consequences for its violation of workers' rights.&quot;

Continental Tyres Faces Intercontinental Trouble

Imerys, the ceramics and construction materials multinational, has just given itself a new name and a new image. But it already risks seeing them tarnished by an international dispute over its anti-union stance in the USA. 
 
Known until recently as Imetal, the company claims to be the world leader in refractory raw materials, paper pigments, white pigments and high-purity graphite. 
 
Imerys is headquartered in France, and trade unionists there have pledged their support to American workers who are resisting the company's attempts to destroy their union. 
 
The US Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers union (PACE) is fighting deunionisation campaigns by Imerys at its plants in Georgia and Alabama. At the global level, PACE is affiliated to the 20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM). 
 
Last week in France, PACE and the ICEM met with Pierre Gaudin of the ICEM-affiliated chemical and energy union FCE-CFDT; Josette Mehat, National Secretary of the construction and wood workers' FNCB-CFDT; and Eliane Petit, chief shop steward at Imerys for the ICEM-affiliated mining union FGMM-CFDT. They promised active support for an international campaign on the issue, to be coordinated by the ICEM. 
 
&quot;Imerys has changed from a company which once sought stable relations with PACE to one which appears dead-set on destroying unions in the US,&quot; said Joe Drexler, PACE Director of Special Projects. &quot;We are informing European unions about the company's actions.&quot; 
 
Imerys withdrew union recognition of PACE at its plant in Sylacauga, Alabama, after the company acquired English China Clays (ECC) and merged its Georgia Marble plant with a much larger non-union ECC plant, which stands next to the Georgia Marble facility. The company's withdrawal of union recognition was based on former ECC non-union workers' outnumbering union members at the combined plant. 
 
PACE offered to hold a new election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) at the combined plant, provided Imerys would be neutral in the election and let workers decide without company interference. The company rejected the union's offer, and instead has launched a union-busting campaign aimed mainly at non-union ECC workers, who outnumber union workers at the Georgian Marble plant by a 2 to 1 margin. 
 
The union charges that Imerys, through its hired union-buster, is: 
 
Showing unionised workers anti-union films at mandatory meetings 
Arranging for its supervisors to meet individually with workers, in order to discourage support for the union 
Recruiting higher-paid workers to carry its anti-union message 
Using scare tactics by associating union membership with plant closings, strikes, violence, and union dues in order to keep workers from supporting the union. 
 
PACE has filed several charges with the NLRB alleging illegal activity by the company. 
 
PACE believes Imerys has laid off all but 5 of its union workers at it Jeffersonville, Georgia plant and moved production to its non-union operations as part of its campaign to destroy the union. The union contract [collective agreement] at the Jeffersonville plant expires in mid-November. 
 
PACE attributes much of the anti-union actions to Dennis Redeker, former CEO of ECC and an American, who was offered over 1.2 million US dollars for his ECC stock and was given a board seat and top-level job with Imerys. Redeker has a history of conducting union-busting campaigns in the US to prevent unionisation of ECC plants. 
 
&quot;Our European union colleagues have been shocked by the barbarism of Imerys's actions, since these things just don't happen in Europe,&quot; said Drexler. &quot;European trade unionists understand that being a union member should be an individual decision and should not require an act of courage.&quot; 
 
PACE has approximately 600 members at three Imerys plants in Alabama and Georgia. The union is also making other contacts with trade unionists in Britain and Canada. 
 
&quot;Imerys has got off to a bad start with its new identity,&quot; commented ICEM General Secretary Vic Thorpe. &quot;We hope that justice and common sense will prevail and that the company will abandon in the USA an attitude that it would not dare to adopt in France. The ICEM has considerable experience of mobilising global campaigns against anti-union multinationals. In the case of Imerys, we would prefer not to use that experience, but we will do so if necessary.&quot;

Imerys Faces Global Labour Action Over US Union-Busting

Japan's electricity companies have now sent more than 500 specialised workers to the Tokaimura nuclear fuel processing plant to deal with the aftermath of yesterday's serious accident there, the Japanese Federation of Electric Power Workers' Unions (Denryokusoren) reports. 
 
The union federation today called for urgent safety measures to protect the clean-up workers. It also said that it should not have been possible for yesterday's &quot;criticality accident&quot; to happen. 
 
Following is a full translation of the statement issued this afternoon by Kiyoshi Hamano, General Secretary of Denryokusoren: 
 
A critical nuclear accident has occurred at the JCO nuclear fuel processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaragi Prefecture. 
 
As a result of this serious accident, many workers at the site and others have been exposed to radiation, and the surrounding area has been polluted. 
 
For many years, Denryokusoren has been working to achieve nuclear safety, as well as to secure public trust in nuclear generation. 
 
Denryokusoren believes that it should not have been possible for this criticality accident to occur, and regrets the fact that the accident took place. 
 
This accident happened at a site where Denryokusoren is not directly active. However, Denryokusoren believes that the safety of the general public, as well as full confidence in nuclear generation, is essential, and that the use of nuclear generation must be based on a national consensus. 
 
Therefore, Denryokusoren will demand that the relevant parties and authorities conduct a thorough investigation of the causes of the accident, and will continue to act for the achievement of a mature safety culture within the Japanese nuclear industry. 
 
Furthermore, the electric power companies in Japan, in response to an urgent request from the Japanese Natural Resource and Energy Agency, have sent their specialised technical workforce, together with material assistance, to the accident site. 
 
Denryokusoren believes that full cooperation with this assistance is necessary. But the safety of the more than 500 electric power workers sent to the site of the accident is essential. 
 
Therefore, Denryokusoren has today, through the Japanese Electric Power Industry Association, requested the electric power companies to ensure the complete safety of our fellow-workers who are now working at the accident site. 
 
[end of statement] 
 
At the global level, Denryokusoren is affiliated to the 20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM).

Japanese Nuclear Accident : More Than 500 Clean-Up Workers Now At Site

New oil-to-chemicals giant TotalFina-Elf must &quot;put jobs back at the centre of its industrial plans,&quot; French chemical and energy workers' union FCE-CFDT insists. 
 
Agreement on a merger between the Franco-Belgian group TotalFina and French-based Elf-Aquitaine was announced yesterday. The new group will be the world's fourth-biggest oil concern, with some 150,000 employees and a market capitalisation of 95.48 billion Euro. 
 
The FCE-CFDT notes that the talks between the two groups ended in &quot;a friendly rapprochement rather than a costly stockholder and legal battle whose outcome would have been uncertain.&quot; 
 
But the union says that &quot;questions about the synergies expected need to be answered now by the new chairman.&quot; In particular, &quot;becoming the world's fourth-biggest oil producer must not mean forgetting concerns about the future of industrial plant, exploration, production and refining, and about the level and location of employment in this sector, notably on the research side and as regards headquarters and commercial services.&quot; 
 
Recalling that France does not have surplus refining capacity, the FCE-CFDT says the merger will be &quot;an opportunity to modernise French industrial plant as a whole and prepare it for the introduction of new environmental standards.&quot; 
 
As to the merged group's production of fine and specialty chemicals, the union insists that this &quot;must not be sacrificed to the financing operation for development in the oil sector.&quot; The new corporation should, the FCE-CFDT says, draw on analyses made by CFDT unionists within the two groups, favouring an &quot;integrated&quot; chemicals operation. &quot;For example, the future of the chlorine chemistry and fertiliser branches calls for clarifications and commitments, which the FCE-CFDT intends to obtain in both the industrial and the social spheres.&quot; The union also calls for guarantees on the further development of subsidiary Sanofi-Synthe-Labo. 
 
The new group should rapidly open a social dialogue &quot;on the future of employment, on the introduction of new work organisation and on work times and patterns,&quot; the union urges. &quot;The FCE-CFDT will do everything possible to ensure that the merger of the two groups is accompanied by strong guarantees for workers and jobs, and we will be requesting a meeting with the new chairman in order to put our views on the group's industrial and social plans.&quot; 
 
At the global level, the FCE-CFDT is affiliated to the 20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM).

TotalFina-Elf Merger: Union Calls For Job Guarantees

Venezuela's new emergency decree has been roundly condemned by twelve labour internationals representing more than 120 million workers worldwide. 
 
Measures in the decree adopted by the Venezuelan National Constituent Assembly include: 
 
 
- the complete dissolution of national and regional trade union confederations and federations 
 
- the annulment of trade union leaders' mandates 
 
- a ban on union leaders' travelling abroad 
 
- a 90-day suspension of election processes within all labour-related bodies 
 
- the seizure of trade union property and assets. 
 
 
In a joint statement issued in Panama on 16 August, the union internationals stress that the measures are a flagrant violation of the Conventions of the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) and also breach UN and Interamerican treaties on basic human rights. As the unions point out, the decree &quot;contradicts in every respect&quot; the &quot;great transformations that the Venezuelan government plans to undertake in order to steer the country's destiny back towards the paths of Democracy, Justice, Transparency and Freedom.&quot; 
 
The union internationals demand that Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and National Assembly chairman Luis Miquelena should: 
 
- revoke the decree 
 
- relaunch national dialogue between the Venezuelan trade union movement and the government 
 
- fully guarantee the free exercise of trade union activity in Venezuela. 
 
Signing the unions' joint statement were the regional representatives of the International Federation of Building and Woodworkers (IFBWW), the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM), the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employees (FIET), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the International Graphical Federation (IGF), the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF), the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF), the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF), the Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International (PTTI) and Public Services International (PSI).

World Labour Condemns Venezuelan Union Ban

In a signal victory for Australian miners' union the CFMEU, workers from the closed-down Oakdale mine are now to receive the A$6.3 million owed to them in entitlements. Reached on Tuesday night, this decision follows a 24-hour nationwide coal strike last Friday over the Oakdale case. 
 
The pay-out marks a major about-face by Australia's right-wing federal government. The money is to come from the industry's existing centralised long-service leave fund. The government had been intending to abolish this fund and hand all the money in it back to the employers. This policy was part of its plan to make all such provisions &quot;enterprise-based&quot;, and therefore dependent on employer patronage. 
 
Oakdale closed in June after its owner was declared insolvent. Entitlements owed to the miners there included accrued sick leave, annual leave and redundancy pay. In such situations, Australian employees are regarded as unsecured creditors. Often, they receive only a few cents in the dollar after all assets have been sold and secured creditors paid. 
 
Following the outcome of the Oakdale case, there are now proposals for some kind of national scheme - perhaps insurance-based - to stop the same thing happening to other workers in other industries. 
 
Overall, this is a major victory for the labour movement, and a particularly big win for the CFMEU, which at the global level is affiliated to the 20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM). 
 
The biggest loser is Peter Reith, Australia's union-bashing Minister for Workplace Relations. The strike forced him into a very public climbdown, and his conservative colleagues now feel that his anti-union crusade has substantially damaged the government's standing with the electorate. 
 
As Kim Beazley, leader of the opposition Labor Party, pointed out, it took a strike costing A$33 million in lost output to convince the government to allow miners access to 6.3 million dollars' worth of owed entitlements.

Australian Miners&#039; Victory: Strike Forces Debt Pay-Off

Eight thousand Indonesian oil rig workers ended a six-week strike on August 7, after winning many of their demands. 
 
The strikers are members of the Indonesian Prosperity Trade Union (SBSI). They are employed in central Sumatra by PT Tripatra, a contractor for Caltex Petroleum, which is a joint venture between oil giants Chevron and Texaco. 
 
The workers had gone on strike on June 21, following PT Tripatra's failure to follow an Indonesian Ministry of Manpower directive to pay the workers compensation and make them permanent employees. PT Tripatra responded by firing all the strikers on July 6 and using the Indonesian security forces to harass and intimidate the strikers. In a July 23 incident, the security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of strikers, shooting one in the head, and assaulting several others. 
 
The SBSI took its case to the Indonesian parliament, the National Commission on Human Rights and the US embassy in Jakarta on July 29, decrying the company's actions and its use of the Indonesian military to try to break the strike. 
 
The 20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) mobilised protests by its oil worker affiliates around the world. Among those who took action were two ICEM Vice Presidents - Robert Wages of the US union PACE and Fred Higgs of the British TGWU - who immediately lodged protests with Chevron and Texaco. In addition, the ICEM and the the US labour federation AFL-CIO organised a demonstration of 150 people at Texaco's Washington offices. This drew media attention both in the USA and in Indonesia. 
 
As a result of the pressure in Indonesia and internationally, Caltex and PT Tripatra did an about-face. In an August 6 settlement mediated by a committee of the Indonesian parliament, the union agreed to end the strike and the company agreed to reinstate all the strikers. Although the workers did not win the severance payment they wanted, PT Tripatra did agree that when its five-year contract with Caltex expires in 2003, the workers will have permanent status and will receive the full compensation under the law. 
 
Muchtar Pakpahan, General Chairman of the SBSI, today thanked the ICEM, the AFL-CIO and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity for their efforts in support of the oil strikers. Together with the union's lobbying effort at the Indonesian parliament, he said, &quot;this work helped bring the strike to a just conclusion.&quot; 
 
&quot;As a result,&quot; Pakpahan said, &quot;the 8,000 workers at PT Tripatra will work under fairer and more secure conditions.&quot; 
 
&quot;We are gratified that a settlement could be reached that reinstates all the strikers with some measure of justice,&quot; said ICEM General Secretary Vic Thorpe. &quot;We will remain vigilant to ensure that PT Tripatra and Caltex live up to their obligations to these workers.&quot;

Indonesian Oilworkers Win Strike With World Union Support

Semsi Denizer, President of the Turkish miners' union Genel Maden-Is, was shot dead outside his home last Friday evening. 
 
The union, which is based in the mining town of Zonguldak, was in the middle of its three-day Congress. Semsi Denizer was murdered a few hours after addressing the opening day's session. He was shot six times in the head. Police arrested a man immediately afterwards. 
 
Denizer was also General Secretary of the Turkish labour confederation T&uuml;rk-Is. Recently, he had been leading a broadly based campaign against government proposals to raise the age of retirement in Turkey. This plan, strongly opposed by Turkish workers, is part of the government's response to demands by the International Monetary Fund for tougher austerity measures. 
 
The motives for last Friday's shooting are unclear. A T&uuml;rk-Is spokesman told ICEM UPDATE this morning that the unions were insisting on a full police investigation, and would reserve further comment until all the facts are known. 
 
Semsi Denizer will best be remembered for leading 50,000 striking miners in an epic protest march from Zonguldak to Ankara in 1991. This dramatic demonstration helped to prevent mine closures in the region and to improve pay and conditions. 
 
Semsi Denizer was on the Executive Committee of the 20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM), to which Genel Maden-Is is affiliated. The ICEM has expressed its profound condolences to his family and his union. In a tribute, the ICEM described Semsi Denizer's death as &quot;a great blow to the Turkish miners whom he led to victory in 1991 and to the international trade union movement as a whole.&quot;

Turkish Miners&#039; Leader Murdered

Sixteen unjustly imprisoned Colombian trade unionists were released on Friday following representations by a visiting mission of the 20 million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM). 
 
The sixteen, all members of the oilworkers' federation USO, were held without charge for several years, before being arraigned on a series of vaguely formulated terrorism charges. 
 
They were to have been defended by prominent human rights lawyer Dr. Umana Mendoza. But just after he agreed to take on their case, Dr. Umana was murdered. 
 
When the sixteen were brought to trial, two key witnesses for the prosecution testified anonymously and wearing masks, under Colombia's &quot;faceless justice&quot; system. Two other prosecution witnesses - members of the Colombian military special services - testified by name, but were subsequently found to have perjured themselves. Further checks revealed that the two &quot;faceless&quot; witnesses were, in fact, the same two perjurers all over again. 
 
The judge in the case was suspended for three months for his misconduct of the trial. The special prosecutor was also relieved of his duties. 
 
After all this, the authorities at first tried to renew the oilworkers' imprisonment - arguing that, since a gross miscarriage of justice had taken place, time was now needed to organise a proper trial! 
 
But strong lobbying by the ICEM mission secured the workers' release. Taking part in the mission were the ICEM's Vice-President Fred Higgs, General Secretary Vic Thorpe and the international's Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, Roque da Silva. 
 
The mission met the detainees immediately after they were freed. They were, Thorpe said, &quot;in good health, considering the circumstances.&quot; 
 
The sending of the special mission was mandated by the ICEM Executive, amidst growing alarm over anti-union repression in Colombia. Thousands of Colombian trade unionists and other social activists have been murdered in recent years. Many others have been seriously assaulted and so, in some cases, have their families. Oil, mining and electricity unions are among those often targeted by &quot;death squads&quot; and other assassins. More than 120 Colombian oil union leaders and members have been murdered over the past decade. 
 
The ICEM mission held talks with a wide range of Colombian trade unionists and public authorities, including the Labour Minister, the Deputy Minister of Energy (who is in charge of electric power), the State Prosecutor and the Procurator Fiscal. 
 
The Colombian authorities must create the conditions for the free exercise of trade union rights, the mission insisted. Denouncing the cycle of violence perpetuated by paramilitaries, guerillas, drug barons and others, the ICEM mission emphasised the positive role of trade unions in the building of a democratic society. A number of Colombian officials privately agreed with this view. Such is the climate of terror in the country, however, that few officers of government or of justice are prepared to go on the record in support of trade unionism. 
 
The mission did receive an assurance from the Labour Minister that any proven violations of the right to organise and the right to bargain would be investigated and those responsible would be punished. 
 
The ICEM representatives also emphasised the international's deep concern over the way in which Colombian electricity is being privatised. In a flagrant breach of existing collective agreements, electricity workers and their unions have not been properly consulted about the privatisation process.

ICEM Mission Secures Trade Unionists&#039; Release - Colombian Oilworkers Freed

Archive

German, French Unions Meet over Aventis, Sanofi Merger

Continental Tyres Faces Intercontinental Trouble

Imerys Faces Global Labour Action Over US Union-Busting

Japanese Nuclear Accident : More Than 500 Clean-Up Workers Now At Site

TotalFina-Elf Merger: Union Calls For Job Guarantees

World Labour Condemns Venezuelan Union Ban

Australian Miners' Victory: Strike Forces Debt Pay-Off

Indonesian Oilworkers Win Strike With World Union Support

Turkish Miners' Leader Murdered

ICEM Mission Secures Trade Unionists' Release - Colombian Oilworkers Freed

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