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The prelude to ICEM&rsquo;s Fifth Statutory Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this week will be a day-long conference on the successes and best practices achieved in the longstanding Contract and Agency Labour (CAL) campaign. The event will take place at the Congress venue, the Hilton Hotel Buenos Aires, on Wednesday, 23 November, the day before Congress opens. 
 
With activities now in over 25 countries, the six-year-old ICEM campaign is now operating on all cylinders and has reached a level of maturity not only seen in tangible results, but has produced ICEM project coordinators who possess the skills and have honed the tools to make a difference for irregular workers the world over. 
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Several of those coordinators will highlight CAL campaign successes at the conference this week. For example, CAL Asian Coordinator Aranya Pakapath will tell how 1,500 contract workers in Chhattisgarh state, India, formed a cement workers&rsquo; union. She will describe how Indonesian outsource workers did the same in that country&rsquo;s paper industry, as well as struggles cement workers in the Philippines face in building unions. 
 
Joseph Toe, CAL Coordinator in Sub-Saharan Africa, will address ICEM campaigns in Guinea, Nigeria, Namibia, Sierra Leone and other countries where major shifts and successful organising have taken place regarding casual employment. Seyni Mbaye Ndiaye, General Secretary of ICEM affiliate SUTIDS in Senegal, will speak on how his union and the ICEM Sub-Saharan CAL project brought about a Presidential Decree in the west African nation for protection of rights of short-term contract workers. 
 
A report will be given by Igor D&iacute;az of ICEM affiliate Sintracarb&oacute;n in Colombia on the hurdles that union encounters in organising and bringing collective agreements to workers of sub-contractors at the world&rsquo;s biggest coal mine. 
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FNV Bondgenoten Message at Eemshaven, Netherlands, CAL Asian Coordinator Aranya Pakapath&nbsp;&nbsp;
And Sascha Meijer of FNV Bondgenoten in the Netherlands will show the tools used by that union in bringing dignity and wage justice to migrant workers from Europe&rsquo;s east at energy plants in the Dutch port city of Eemshaven. 
 
J&oslash;rgen Juul Rasmussen of Dansk El F&ouml;rbund of Denmark will give an overview on the temporary and fixed-term employment situation in Europe, as well as progress on implementing the European Union directive on temporary work. 
 
Sponsored by the German Freidrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), the conference promises to be a wellspring of strategies and best case studies aimed at combating the rampant growth of temporary and short-term employment that affects us all. 
 
The day will conclude with a panel moderated by Council of Global Unions Coordinator Jim Baker that will include General Secretaries from the ICEM (Manfred Warda), the International Textile, Garment, and Leather Workers&rsquo; Federation (Klaus Priegnitz), and the International Metalworkers&rsquo; Federation (Jyrki Raina) that will look at future strategies of the campaign within the framework of integrating the three Global Union Federations. 
 
ICEM Latin America/Caribbean Regional Vice President Sergio Novais will chair the day-long session.&nbsp;

ICEM Congress: Contract, Agency Labour Forum to Showcase Achievements

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The ICEM&rsquo;s Fifth and perhaps last ordinary Congress opens in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this week, with some 800 delegates and guests expected to attend. The quadrennial Congress runs from 24-26 November, with the ICEM Presidium to be held today, 21 November, and an Executive Committee meeting to be held on 22 November. 
 
General Secretary Manfred Warda said Argentina was chosen as the venue for this Congress because of eight strong affiliates in the South American nation, including those affiliated to both national labour centres &ndash; the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) and the Argentine Workers&rsquo; Central Union (CTA). 
 
&ldquo;With industrial trade union unity taking shape on the global level, we felt it appropriate that our union affiliates from both confederations connect and continue pushing forward on the positive social agenda that has taken root in Argentina,&rdquo; said Warda. 
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The government of President Cristina Fern&aacute;ndez de Kirchner has followed the social plan of her late husband N&eacute;stor Kirchner by building a &ldquo;people first&rdquo; agenda in which public spending and consumer power serve as the fuel for economic growth and prosperity for all. That is reflected in the government enacting a 25% increase in the country&rsquo;s minimum wage this past summer, while at the same time expanding export markets by providing incentives to manufacturers. 
 
Warda said this contrasts with governments in other developed nations which now resort to &ldquo;anti-people, anti-social&rdquo; austerity measures to counter sovereign debt crises. 
 
The Congress quite likely will hear from President Fern&aacute;ndez on the opening day, as well as from the Argentina Minister of Labour and Social Security, Dr. Carlos Tomado. 
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The Congress will also consider a number of motions, including a forward-looking Action Plan that aims to continue the activist culture of the ICEM in future work and several specific motions on current and relevant world topics. Day two of the Congress will feature a panel discussion on Social Dialogue initiatives in Latin America, moderated by ICEM Latin American/Caribbean Regional Vice President Sergio Novais. 
 
On the final day of the Congress, 26 November, discussion will take place over the final integration steps in creating a new Global Union Federation (GUF) together with the International Textile, Garment, Leather Workers&rsquo; Federation (ITGLWF) and the International Metalworkers&rsquo; Federation (IMF). That is scheduled to happen in June 2012 in Copenhagen, making the next ICEM Congress a dissolution congress to occur at the same time. 
 
The ICEM union affiliates in Argentina cover nearly all the GUF&rsquo;s industrial sectors, including petroleum (FASPyGP), rubber (SUTNA), pulp and paper (FOEIPCyQ and SOEP), natural gas (STIGAN), nuclear (UOM), electricity (LYF-PAT) and mining (OSMA). The ICEM is grateful for their assistance in arrangements what will prove a memorable and successful Congress.

ICEM Congress Opens This Week in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has launched a nation-wide campaign urging the government to repeal amendments to the Employment Act, which would legalize labour contractors. 
 
The MTUC has been lobbying against these amendments since the bill was originally submitted to Parliament in July 2010. At that time, due to opposition from other political parties and trade unions, the government withdrew the bill. The amendments were re-introduced, with minor changes, in June 2011. Since then, the MTUC has been outspoken against the bill but, despite a picket at the Parliament on 3 October, the bill was passed by the majority Members of Parliament of the Ruling Party on 6 October. 
 
The proposed amendments would introduce &ldquo;contractors for labour&rdquo; into Malaysian legislation and create triangular employment relationships in which workers would be employed and paid by a contractor, rather than by the company in which they work. The amendments would also open the way for unequal treatment of workers with respect to wages and benefits. 
 
The MTUC further opposes deferred payment of overtime which, as laid out in the bill, would mean that contract workers would not receive remuneration for overtime until one month later, so that the principal employer time to pay the contractor for labour that in turn pays the contract workers. 
 
The MTUC is committed to pursuing &ldquo;all avenues available&rdquo; until the amendments to the Employment Act are withdrawn.

Malaysian Nation Labor Centre Decries Legislation Opening Door for Contract Labour

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The Irish union, Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU), is fighting attempts by the government of Ireland to dilute the provisions of the European Union Temporary Agency Workers&rsquo; Directive, which comes into force across Europe on 5 December. 
 
The Directive, which was passed in 2008, states that &ldquo;The basic working and employment conditions of temporary agency workers shall be, for the duration of their assignment at a user undertaking, at least those that would apply if they had been recruited directly by that undertaking to occupy the same job.&rdquo; 
 
The Directive applies from day one of an assignment, and further states that temporary agency workers have the right to be informed about permanent employment opportunities in the user enterprise and must have improved access to training and childcare facilities in periods between assignments, in order to enhance employability. 
 
Under the Directive derogation from the principle of equal treatment is permitted provided an agreement can be reached between a state&rsquo;s social partners. In an eleventh hour attempt, Irish Minister for Enterprise and Jobs Richard Bruton has called for a derogation which would mean that an agency worker would only be entitled to equal treatment after six months, rather than from the first day of employment. 
 
In a letter to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), Bruton said, &ldquo;Without the benefit of some leeway in transposing the directive in the shape of a framework agreement, Ireland will be in a position of significant competitive disadvantage, vis-a-vis our European trading partners,&rdquo; adding, &ldquo;In the current climate and with the significant challenges that face us on the road to economic recovery, we must avail of the flexibilities afforded by the directive.&rdquo; 
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Patricia King
Patricia King, Vice President of SIPTU, has made clear that the union is opposed to any attempt by the government to seek a derogation. King said, &ldquo;We do not see any reason for a derogation to be applied. Why would we? If someone is entitled to equality of treatment, they are entitled to it and there is no reasonable argument being put forward, that I can see, for us to agree to the derogation.&rdquo; 
 
&ldquo;If somebody is employed to do a job, which commands a certain skill, background knowledge and experience, and they put themselves forward for that job and are capable of producing the goods, why would they not get the rate of pay on an equal basis as somebody who was doing the job already and who is going to work alongside them?&rdquo; 
 
Commenting on Bruton&rsquo;s claims that implementing the Directive would have a negative impact on jobs and economic growth, King said, &ldquo;All that is a code for not paying the rate and keeping people in low pay&rdquo;.

SIPTU Fights Attempts to Dilute EU Agency Workers Directive

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Members of the International Association of Machinists &amp; Aerospace Workers (IAM) began strike action Honeywell on 10 October at a nuclear parts manufacturing facility in Kansas City, Missouri. The 940 members of IAM Lodge 778 begin their third week today on picket lines at a US government-owned site following a 79% contract rejection on 9 October. 
 
Union members followed that ballot with an 85% strike vote the same day. US federal mediation a week ago failed to resolve differences, but did produce a hand-shake agreement on 18 October in which both sides agreed to refrain from airing the dispute in the local press. Two days later, a manager for Honeywell Federal Manufacturing &amp; Technologies LLC. told a television broadcast that IAM members are overpaid and should be satisfied with the company&rsquo;s &ldquo;last and final&rdquo; offer.
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That offer is a six-year proposal that does contain minimal pay gains in each year, but it also creates a two-tier wage scheme. That pay grid would see all employees hired in 2012 receive less hourly pay and come under a slower pay progression. Such a pay schedule would take new hires five years to reach only 90% of what current workers earn. 
 
Honeywell&rsquo;s proposal also attacks workers&rsquo; health care coverage, making it more costly for union members to have adequate health insurance. IAM Lodge 778 has proposed a four-year contract without the concessions. 
 
The union awaits a decision from the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) declaring the work stoppage an unfair labour practice strike. In the days prior to the 9 October rejection vote, Honeywell management circumvented the union&rsquo;s bargaining committee by express mailing a letter to all workers, misrepresenting the company&rsquo;s proposal and urging them to accept the offer. 
 
Such bad-faith bargaining runs counter to US labour statute and if the NLRB does issue a complaint, the strike takes on new meaning. Honeywell operates the US government facility called Bannister Federal Complex and produces non-nuclear components for America&rsquo;s nuclear weapons industry. 
 
The IAM strike comes a short two months after Honeywell ended a 13-month lockout against members of the United Steelworkers (USW) at a uranium conversion site in Metropolis, Illinois. ICEM reports on that can be found <a href="/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4618-USW-Local-7-669-Honeywell-Accord-Takes-Effect-Today-Ending-US-Lockout ">here</a> and <a href="/en/27-North-America/4527-Steelworkers-Mark-Year-long-Honeywell-Lockout-in-US ">here</a>.

US Machinists Strike Honeywell Nuclear Parts Plant in Missouri

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A subsidiary of the Swiss-based trading house Glencore International is refusing to consider modest improvements for its employees in the municipality of La Jagua de Ibirico, Cesar Province in Northern Colombia. CI Prodeco is Colombia&rsquo;s third largest coal producer and disgracefully only 4.91% of the company&rsquo;s expenditures is used for labour costs. 
 
Workers at Prodeco, organised under the municipality branch of ICEM coal-mining affiliate Sintracarb&oacute;n, presented management with a list of just demands on 21 September. The company negotiators initiated the direct settlement stage of bargaining on 3 October in the city of Barranquilla. Under Colombian law, the direct settlement stage of bargaining lasts two weeks but despite this, management has refused to bargain in good faith and shows no willingness to reach a collective agreement with workers, thus provoking strike action. 
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Instead of seeking a collective agreement, management announced its intention to renew a unilateral work rules document for a five-year period. The proposed document includes worker conditions below the legal minimum standards. 
 
Prodeco has run a sophisticated propaganda campaign attempting to convince workers that a collective agreement as proposed by the union would not be legal, and that workers stand to lose all benefits previously achieved through bargaining. They then offered the unilateral work rules document. The company campaign is clearly aimed at turning workers against the union and the bargaining process, in blatant breach of international labour standards that have been ratified by Colombia. 
 
The union is standing firm on its demands regarding labour-management relations, safety, occupational health, and on wages, benefits, promotions, education, housing, health, job stability, and use of external contractors. 
 
As pressure from supervisors increases, the ICEM stands in full support of Sintracarb&oacute;n members at Prodeco as they seek settlement for a collective agreement, or if they are forced to strike in the coming days. 
 
ICEM affiliates and supporters are urged to write to the <a href="mailto:Gary.nagle@prodeco.com.co; miguel.montoya@prodeco.com.co; emerito.benjumea@prodeco.com.co; carlos.martelo@prodeco.com.co; olga.charris@prodeco.com.co">company management</a>: Gary Nagle, Prodeco President; Miguel Montoya, human resources manager; and negotiators Charles Emeritus and Olga Lucia.&nbsp;

Sintracarbón Fights Glencore Subsidiary in Colombia

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Today in Geneva, representatives from trade unions, governments, and businesses start deliberating on employment restructuring and social dialogue in the chemicals and pharmaceutical industries as part of an ILO sectoral meeting. &ldquo;Promoting Social Dialogue on Restructuring and its Effects on Employment in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries&rdquo; is the name of the four-day meeting (24-27 October) in which 90 representatives from 40 countries will participate. 
 
The meeting&rsquo;s aim is to unleash sustainable ways through positive industrial relations to meet restructuring processes. Social partners will explore the best practices of social dialogue in seeking constructive and conducive climates during corporate structural change, including mergers and acquisitions. The ICEM and affiliated trade unions will fully participate in the conference. 
 
The centerpiece of the meeting will be an <a href="http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@ed_dialogue/@sector/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_164943.pdf ">ILO report</a> entitled &ldquo;Restructuring Employment and Social Dialogue in the Chemicals and Pharmaceutical Industries&rdquo; that details, among other things, the effects of the global economic crisis on these sectors. The ILO says, for example, that the 27 European Union Member States saw employment drop from three million workers in 2005 to 2.8 million in 2008, but that the job level has increased since to 3.1 million in the first quarter 2010. 
 
In the US, ILO places the 2008-2009 drop in chemicals and pharmaceutical employment at 70,000 jobs, or 5.1% of the total workforce for these sectors. ILO estimates that 20 million workers are now employed in the sectors worldwide, with the 27 EU states, Brazil, China, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, and the US accounting for 60% of that figure. 
 
The report also takes note of longer working hours in certain countries, and identifies a shortage of skilled workers such as scientists and others that present poignant challenges to the sectors. It also notes the relative low number of women working across the sector, particularly at the executive level where the percentage is far less than the average of Fortune 500 companies. The report also covers the effects of outsourcing and contract labour in the sectors.

ILO Tripartite Chemicals, Pharmaceutical Meeting Opens in Geneva

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The ICEM has come to the aid and support of DERİ-İş, the trade union of Leather Workers of Turkey, and an affiliate of the International Textile, Leather, Garment Workers&rsquo; Federation (ITGLWF), both of which have been waging a courageous struggle for trade union rights at two factories of Kampana-Savranoğlu, a maker of leather for the shoe industry. 
 
Workers at factories in İzmir and Istanbul met fierce opposition from the family-owned company when they tried to organize with DERİ-İş. They faced extremely low pay, forced overtime that was off the books, and harmful air quality that left many workers sick. Last March, when workers refused to give up their right to unionisation after coercion by management, the company sacked 16 trade union leaders. 
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ICEM at 15 October Protest Action Against Kampana-Savranoğlu
This occurred at the 103-worker İzmir factory and immediately all other workers went on a work slowdown. This continued for several months until managers responded in early October by closing the factory and transferring the work &ndash; and workers &ndash; to the Istanbul factory called Kampana. Management&rsquo;s had predicted that none of the workers would transfer, thus the company would not have to pay the lawful severance payments and it would be rid of DERİ-İş. 
 
But the ploy backfired when 38 of the strongest union sympathizers took the transfer and joined the workforce at the 49-worker Kampana factory, making the Istanbul factory overcrowded. 
 
The company made no provisions for housing, so after moving to Turkey&rsquo;s largest city and starting work on 1 October, the 38 İzmir workers began sleeping inside the factory. Management summoned police but after the occupation continued, they sacked the workers on 13 October. 
 
Two days later, DERİ-İş, local NGOs and supporters &ndash; including a representative from the ICEM &ndash; held a protest action at the house of the Kampana-Savranoğlu owner near Taksim Square. 
 
DERİ-İş is supporting 14 workers and their families and continues a campaign that now numbers 224 consecutive days. The union is waging another long-running fight against DESA, which produces leather for luxury goods with the most prestigious being Prada, the handbag retailer. That campaign has been running for four years. 
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Through intervention by ITGLWF, DERİ-İş and DESA signed a good-faith protocol agreement in August 2009, but management immediately broke it by targeting and then sacking union members. This included 12 workers from a workplace in Sefakoy, Istanbul, and another two employees last January in D&uuml;zce. 
 
A third dispute the Turkish Leather Workers&rsquo; Union is fighting is against the company Trexta, which has factories in Cerkezk&ouml;y, Istanbul, and Sivas, totaling 1,000 mostly women workers. The company produces leather cases and accessories for the mobile phone industry, and supplies to Nokia, Vertu, and Blackberry. 
 
Since July 2011, the company has dismissed 11 members of a union committee. DERİ-İş sought help from ICEM, ITGLWF, and the International Metalworkers&rsquo; Federation (IMF) to intervene on Trexta&rsquo;s customers, particularly Nokia over the Finnish company&rsquo;s rigid supply-line requirements. IMF wrote and urged Nokia to take the necessary steps to ensure reinstatement and to secure workers&rsquo; freedom of association. 
 
The ICEM did likewise, demanding that Nokia take action to protect workers&rsquo; rights. 
 
&ldquo;These three cases in the Turkish leather industry shows that a new Global Union Federation must be an activist organization to protect the rights of workers when they are routinely abused,&rdquo; stated ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda. &ldquo;We must be vigilant that violations in any one part of the supply chain will be felt along the entire chain of production.&rdquo;

ICEM Lends Support to Persecuted Leather Workers in Turkey

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The strike by 32,000 Finnish metalworkers that began on 21 October could end tomorrow following a new proposal presented by National Conciliator Esa Lonka last night, 23 October. ICEM affiliate Ammattiliitto Pro, the trade union of salaried workers in Finland, and Metalliliitto, the country&rsquo;s Metalworkers&rsquo; Union, will consider the proposal later today in separate meetings. 
 
The two unions began a first wave of strike actions last Friday against 45 metal and engineering companies that was to run until 7 November, with a second wave of strikes against another 35 firms to begin on that day. 
 
Lonka&rsquo;s new proposal addresses the unions concerns on a wage package over the next two years, while Finland&rsquo;s government is expected to legislate the other key issue in the dispute &ndash; a three-day annual training and education leave in which employers sought to use its own discretionary control. 
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Metalliliitto&rsquo;s 38-member Union Council will consider the proposal at 16h today in Helsinki, while Ammattiliitto Pro&rsquo;s Executive Committee will meet at 17h to take up the government conciliator&rsquo;s proposal. If both bodies accept, the 32,000 workers &ndash; 25,000 metalworkers and 7,000 represented by Ammattiliitto Pro &ndash; will be back to work tomorrow, 25 October. 
 
The major discord was over a 4.3% wage increase for two years, an amount Finnish social partners agreed to on 13 October. Metal and technical employers, under the auspices of the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries, or Teknologiateollisuus, sought to structure that pay rise whereby many metalworkers and white-collar workers would not get the full amount. The new proposal given by Lonka last night, 23 October, proposes that it be granted across the board to all 200,000 workers in the country&rsquo;s metal and engineering sector. 
 
Last week&rsquo;s industrial actions also included an overtime ban across all employers in those industrial sectors. An <a href="/en/23-Nordic-Countries/4723-Strikes-Begin-in-Finnish-Metal-Technology-Sector">ICEM report</a> on the start of the strike from last week can be found here.

Conciliator’s New Proposal Expected to End Short Finnish Metalworkers Strike

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Union members of CGT-Filpac and CFE-CGC boarded five buses early today and headed to Paris from Alizay in northern France to continue their struggle to keep an M-real paper mill operating. In Paris, paperworkers from Alizay in the Haute-Normandie region will protest at the Ministry of Agriculture where final mediation begins between French authorities, the Finnish papermaker, and two potential buyers. 
 
Some 330 workers began a strike and blockade of the Alizay paper mill on 19 October, the day M-real announced closure of the uncoated printing papers mill. M-real, 40% controlled by the Finnish forestry company Mets&auml;liitto, terminated discussions with Thailand-based Advance Agro Ltd., known as Double A Paper, and the Paris-based investment capital company Fin&rsquo;active SAS due to buy the 48-year-old paper mill. 
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Thierry Philippot
On 20 October, many paperworkers left the front gate of the mill and took to the A13 motorway between Normandie and Paris and gave passing motorists a &ldquo;toll-free&rdquo; handbill describing their plight. 
 
M-real announced on 4 May 2011 that it intended to sell printing paper mills in Alizay and Gohrsm&uuml;hle, Germany, as part of a major restructuring plan to exit the fine paper industry and focus on paperboard used for packaging. 
 
&ldquo;We have prepared for the possibility of closure, but we are not yet ready to accept it,&rdquo; said CGT-Filpac plant representative Thierry Philippot. 
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Paperworkers Block M-Real&rsquo;s Alizay Mill
Philippot, along with fellow CGT representative Jean-Yves Lemahieu and CFE-CGC representative Eric Hogger, traveled to Helsinki on 30 September to meet with M-real CEO Mikko Helander in hopes that a deal could be consummated. 
 
M-real had put two conditions on a sale: maintain the current employment for 24 months, and pour all sales from the 310,000-tonne-per-year mill back into the operation. Although both Advance Agro and Fin&rsquo;active appeared to accept those terms, the deal with favoured Advance Agro broke down when the Thai company demanded other conditions. 
 
The mediation today is with Advance Agro, a company that operates two pulp mills and three paper factories in its home country. Mediation with Fin&rsquo;active, an investment firm specializing in distressed assets, will be held later this week. The talks will be headed by French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire, a UPM party member and member of France&lsquo;s Parliament from the Eure department, where the Alizay mill is located.

French Paperworkers Continue Protest Today to Keep M-real Mill Operating

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