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The Third Ordinary Congress of UILCEM took place in Iglesias, Sardegna Island, on 2-4 February under the motto, &quot;Our History, Our Future.&rdquo; The Congress was attended by the General Secretary of UIL Confederation Luigi Angeletti, General Secretary of FEMCA-CISL Sergio Gigli together with Dario Ilossi, National Secretaries of FILCEM-CGIL and FLAEI-CISL (Electricity Workers' Union), a number of representatives of employers&rsquo; federations and individual companies. 
 
Also in attendance were Kemal &Ouml;zkan, Chemicals and Rubber Industries Officer of the ICEM, and Jean-Fran&ccedil;ois Renucci, General Secretary-elect of the French union FCE-CFDT. 
 
As one of the three ICEM Italian affiliated trade unions, UILCEM (Chemical, Energy and Manufacturing Workers' Union) is part of the UIL (Italian Workers' Union) national centre. It brings together workers of the chemical, pharmaceutical, mining, energy, oil, engineering, manufacturing, rubber and plastics, glass, lamps, ceramics, tiles, electricity, water, and gas sectors. 

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Augusto Pascucci, General Secretary of UILCEM
Augusto Pascucci, General Secretary of UILCEM and a Vice President of the ICEM, reported on the effects of the global economic crisis in Italy. Pascucci explained the significance of the Congress being held in Iglesias, near a mine under threat of closure due to the financial downturn. The mine supports the livelihoods of 2,000 workers in the area. Pascucci called for a government reform package that would see Italy intervene in moments of crisis. 
 
The General Secretary of UIL underlined the current trade union agenda items in Italy and gave particular attention to job creation, the securing of industrial production, and an increase in the minimum wage. ICEM's &Ouml;zkan, in his speech, covered globalisation, the economic crisis, changes in the employment relationship toward more precarious work, sustainable development, and climate change. 
 
The final declaration of the Congress laid out the union&rsquo;s objectives for the upcoming period. That agenda includes: More trade union training; a new &quot;architecture&quot; of the financial system; elimination of discrimination against women, creation of an open society for everyone, and specific financing for women&rsquo;s activities; and an escalation of support and solidarity with international and European federations 
 
The Congress unanimously re-elected Augusto Pascucci as General Secretary of UILCEM. 
 
Another ICEM Italian affiliate, FILCEM, will merge with FILTEA, the Textile Workers&rsquo; Union. The name of the new union is FILCTEM, and will represent 250,000 members, with 27 national-level collective agreements in the relevant sectors. FILCTEM will hold its First Congress soon.

Third Ordinary Congress of Italy’s UILCEM Held

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ICEM Turkish affiliate &Ccedil;IMSE-İş, the Cement, Ceramics, Soil, Pottery, and Glass Workers&rsquo; Union, held its 18th Congress in Ankara on 6 and 7 February, with the 207 delegates present electing a new President and expanding the union&rsquo;s executive committee from four to five. Zekeriye Nazlim, the former &Ccedil;IMSE-İş regional president of the Ankara Branch, was elected President of the national union. 
 
Prior President Ramazan Safak stepped down from that position at this Congress. He was credited for enacting efficiencies within the union that doubled &Ccedil;IMSE-İş cash reserves in the midst of a financial crisis. The union represents 18,000 Turkish workers, down a full 25% due to effects of the global financial collapse. 

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Zekeriye Nazlim&nbsp;of &Ccedil;IMSE-İş
The hardest hit among &Ccedil;IMSE-İş industrial sectors were those in ceramics, tiles, and pottery. Safak was responsible for keeping the T&uuml;rk-İş affiliated union on solid financial footing through the retrenchment of workers and loss of membership, and also was credited with limiting the effects of the crisis through constructive social dialogue with employers. 
The Congress was chaired by T&uuml;rk-İş Confederation President and ICEM Executive Member Mustafa Kumlu. He outlined the recent industrial actions undertaken by 12,000 workers of the once state-owned tobacco and alcohol company Tekel, workers who have been denied their rights as victims of privatization. 

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T&uuml;rk-İş President Mustafa Kumlu
ICEM Rubber and Chemicals Officer Kemal &Ouml;zkan reported on the overall global effects of the economic crisis, as well as on ICEM&rsquo;s campaign on Contract and Agency Labour (CAL) and ongoing efforts to create a new global trade union structure for industrial and manufacturing sectors. &Ouml;zkan also thanked &Ccedil;IMSE-İş for co-hosting last October&rsquo;s ICEM World Conference for the Materials Sector in Izmir, Turkey. 
 
The Congress passed resolutions on decent work; against precarious employment; for fair taxation; reform to Turkish labour statutes, particularly regarding unionization; a better health insurance system; better management of unemployment funds; and a halt to privatization efforts. 
 
Re-elected General Secretary of &Ccedil;IMSE-İş was Yusuf &Ccedil;irak; re-elected as treasurer, Cemil Kaya; and Erkan Atar was elected Secretary of Education, while Cengiz G&ouml;z&uuml;k&uuml;&ccedil;&uuml;k was elected Secretary of Organising.

ÇIMSE-İş Holds Congress in Ankara; Elects New President

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The pitched battle in Australia&rsquo;s coal fields between Xstrata and the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union (CFMEU) continues as miners at Tahmoor in New South Wales overwhelmingly voted down a contract offer today. Xstrata has been aggressively attacking workplace conditions and union rights at several coal mines in Australia, but the Tahmoor mine dispute has become prominent due to the length of the conflict and the intensity of it. 
 
Some 300 miners there faced off against an Xstrata lockout from 8-15 February and then following that lockout, they imposed another three days of industrial actions. CFMEU members are frustrated because they&rsquo;ve been without a credible enterprise labour agreement now for nearly 11 months, but they&rsquo;re even more frustrated that Xstrata is trying to set the clock back to John Howard and his WorkChoices regime. 

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The balloting at Tahmoor that started last week was ordered by a government Fair Work tribunal, after the government ruled against CFMEU allegations that Xstrata had engaged in bad-faith bargaining in bypassing the union and going directly to workers on bargaining matters. 
 
Swiss-based Xstrata seeks an enterprise agreement that gives it broad flexibility on writing and re-writing workplace polices and procedures; one that is void of any independent arbitration mechanism; and one in which the union, or any common disputes procedure, is absent from health and safety issues. 

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Locked out Xstrata workers at Tahmoor
Although pay is not forefront to this dispute, the fact that Xstrata wants all future bonus schemes to not be a subject for bargaining is another and unpopular proposal. Even though Xstrata is utilizing its lockout right contained in the disputes process of the labour government&rsquo;s Fair Work statutes, its crass attitude toward terms and conditions of work represents a lingering culture of Howard&rsquo;s one-sided labour laws of the recent past. 
 
CFMEU miners at Xstrata&rsquo;s Bulga mine in New South Wales faced a 24-hour lockout by the company on 19 January after engaging in lawful industrial actions the previous two days. Some 250 miners at Bulga had a collective agreement expire in December 2009 and face many of the same company-positioned proposals that miners at Tahmoor have now rejected. Bargaining with the company also is about to commence at two other CFMEU-represented mines, Liddell and Glendell, both in Queensland, where 450 miners are now braced to resist Xstrata&rsquo;s draconian terms. 
 
Visit the CFMEU&rsquo;s Xstrata Facts website <a href="http://www.xstratafacts.com/">here</a>.

No Resolve to Coal Fight in Australia Between CFMEU and Xstrata

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An inquiry into the fatal helicopter crash that killed 17 workers and crew headed to Canadian offshore oil platforms on 12 March 2009 continued earlier this month. In the days following the early February continuation, former Labrador-Newfoundland Supreme Court Justice Robert Wells, who heads the inquiry undertaken by the nation&rsquo;s Transportation Safety Board, issued immediate procedural changes a full seven months before his commission&rsquo;s report. 
 
Those changes are based on testimony from local union officers and staff of Communications, Energy, Paperworkers (CEP) Union, which represents 700 workers at two of three offshore platforms some 300 kilometres off Newfoundland. 
 
One mandate calls on the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, the agency regulating the offshore oil industry, to ensure that a fully equipped search-and-rescue helicopter is on standby at St. John&rsquo;s, Newfoundland, and ready to respond within 15 to 20 minutes of any mayday call. It took the charter service contractor, Cougar Helicopters Ltd., between 45 minutes to an hour to equip and launch a rescue helicopter last year on 12 March. 

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The other instruction by Wells restricts night flights to only emergencies until a dedicated helicopter is available that is equipped with an auto-hover and forward-looking infrared device in the event a rescue mission is necessary at night. Both recommended changes were accepted by the Offshore Petroleum Board and the agency was informing lead oil companies at the platforms of the directives last week, including ExxonMobil, Suncor, Husky, Chevron Canada, and ConocoPhillips. 
 
The immediate precautionary changes stem from testimony that CEP leaders gave on 9 February, and also last October and November when the inquiry began. Officers of CEP Local 2121, representing workers at the Hibernia and Terra Nova platforms, expressed concerns that response time, non-fitting survival suits, and lack of underwater breathing devices typify a corporate culture that is lax on transport safety. They testified that in the North Sea oilfields, a separate agency singly monitors air transport to the platforms and a 15-minute response time in the event of an emergency is mandated. 
 
The union also pointed out that Cougar&rsquo;s operations in the Gulf of Mexico provides search-and-rescue emergency service in 20 minutes time. 
 
The CEP also brought to question why no 24-hour military search-and-rescue helicopters are stationed at St. John&rsquo;s, the closest point and major port serving the offshore rigs. Such military craft, called Cormorants, are located in Gander, in central Newfoundland, a travelling time of up to two hours air time to the flight paths used by Cougar. Canadian military officials have neglected to address this issue, or to join the inquiry. 

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Also of concern to oil workers, according to Local 2121 President Sheldon Peddle and Vice President Brian Murphy and the lone survivor of the March 2009 ditching, Robert Decker, is the fact that Cougar&rsquo;s Sikorsky S-92A helicopters are equipped with a large fuel tank inside the cabin that complicates emergency exiting. Decker testified at the Wells inquiry on 6 November 2009. 
 
Peddle said that simulators used for worker safety exercises do not have such cabin impediments. 
 
On 12 March 2009, a Cougar Sikorsky S-92A helicopter carrying two crew members and 16 oil workers ditched into North Atlantic waters, eight minutes after oil pressure readings dropped from instruments that monitor the helicopter&rsquo;s engine gearbox. Two of the 18 on board managed to get out of the cabin after the crash, with only Decker managing to survive in the frigid waters. 
 
The issue of helicopter safety is of utmost importance to the ICEM-International Transport Workers&rsquo; Federation (ITF) Joint Onshore-Offshore Task Force, particularly in view of recent tragedies. On 1 April 2009, 16 workers died tragically in the North Sea when a Eurocopter Super Puma AS 332L2, operated by Bond Offshore Helicopters, ditched on its way to BP&rsquo;s Miller platform in the ETAP oilfields. 
 
On 26 February 2008, the same make craft crashed in southern Atlantic waters, killing five of 17 workers and crew heading to a Petrobras rig. That caused members of ICEM-affiliated FUB, the Oil Workers&rsquo; Federation of Brazil, to boycott the Super Pumas for the next six months. Two other Super Pumas also crashed in the South China Sea in January 2007 and November 2006. And two other ditchings occurred in North Sea waters in the first half of 2009 where, miraculously, nobody was killed.

CEP Testimony in Canadian Offshore Helicopter Crash Leads to Changes

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The ICEM South African affiliate, Chemical, Energy, Pulp, Paper, Wood, and Allied Workers Union (CEPPWAWU), has condemned management&rsquo;s on-going reluctance to take into account union demands at the Azochem Laboratory in Roodeport, near Johannesburg. 
 
Workers at the laboratory have been on strike since 27 November 2009, and their central demand is an end to contract work and placement of temporary workers in direct employment. At a minimum the union demands that, if short-term contract work remains in place, those workers must receive a 13th salary payment, with bonus, and that salaries be paid by the hour with a 10% across-the-board raise. 

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CEPPWAWU Deputy General Secretary Thabane Mdlalose announced that the union will &ldquo;use all mechanisms at our disposal, including mobilizing our members in other sectors to support our members in the Azochem Laboratory.&rdquo; 
 
Azochem management abandoned negotiations when the union brought the dispute before South Africa&rsquo;s Commission for Conciliation, Mediation, and Arbitration (CCMA). The CCMA is an independent dispute resolution body, established under the terms of the Labour Relations Act of 1995. 
 
Azochem is a contract manufacturer of cosmetics and neutraceuticals, with a broad and growing client base in South Africa. 
 
The ICEM is encouraging affiliates and activists to write to Azochem management to call on them to re-enter into negotiations with CEPPWAWU. The chief company contacts are J.C. Fellingham, Jr., Azochem Managing Director, at <a href="mailto:craig@azochem.co.za">craig@azochem.co.za</a> and W.A. Roos, Technical Director, at <a href="mailto:andre@azochem.co.za">andre@azochem.co.za</a>. 

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CEPPWAWU is also fighting another pharmaceutical company, Winthrop, over their continued refusal to reinstate dismissed workers following a July 2009 strike. The CEO of the Pretoria-based multinational has threatened legal proceedings if the union does not cease calls for reinstatement. 
 
The company dismissed 20 union members for their role in the legal strike of July 2009. Eight workers have been reinstated, but 12 are still without jobs. 
 
CEPPWAWU is frustrated with the continued refusal of management to enter into discussions with the union over the issue. Winthrop is part of the large Sanofi Aventis Group, a French-based chemicals and pharmaceutical giant that has remained silent on the dispute. In 2009, Winthrop won a government contract to produce medicine on the condition that they would &ldquo;contribute in saving and creating jobs.&rdquo; CEPPWAWU accuses them of doing just the opposite. 
 
The ICEM joins calls to management of these companies to sit down with CEPPWAWU and resolve the matters amicably. Protest letters may be sent to: CEO John Fagan, 3rd Floor Aventis House, 2nd Bond Street, Midrand, South Africa 1685. The fax is +27 11 256 3700.

CEPPWAWU Defends Temp Workers in Pharmaceutical Strike in South Africa

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The Geneva, Switzerland-based International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine, and General Workers&rsquo; Unions (ICEM) announces that it gives its unequivocal support to the 560 miners of US affiliated union, International Longshore &amp; Warehouse Union (ILWU), who were locked off their jobs by the Rio Tinto subsidiary, US Borax and Chemical Corp., on Sunday, 31 January. 
 
The workers were refused entry to the mine and processing plant in Boron, California, when they showed for their work shift at 06h00 on Sunday. 
 
&ldquo;We note that all 500 members of ILWU Local 30 voted against the company&rsquo;s contract proposal on Saturday night,&rdquo; said ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda. &ldquo;This should have served as a message to Rio Tinto Minerals to continue negotiating, continue seeking the necessary compromises in order to achieve a mutually acceptable collective agreement.&rdquo; 
 
A prior contract expired on 4 November 2009. Management is seeking unprecedented changes to workers&rsquo; seniority, shift and overtime assignments, and the way in which promotions are made, as well as seeking unilaterally to impose flexibility changes that favour the company to the detriment of workers. 
 
The ICEM condemns the company for its announcement that it will continue production with replacement workers during the company-initiated lockout. The ICEM will use its role, as the leading Global Union Federation in the mining industry, to alert trade unions around the globe, particularly those representing Rio Tinto workers, of the lockout and urge them to take action on behalf of ILWU Local 30 in California. 
 
Borax, or sodium borate, is a mineral used in detergents, glass, building materials, and other uses such as an ingredient in chemicals. The ICEM represents 20 million workers worldwide that are part of 467 affiliated trade unions in 132 countries. 
The ICEM urges all affiliates and supporters to send their own letter to Rio Tinto, condemning the lockout.&nbsp; Click <a href="/index.php?id=5&amp;la=EN&amp;doc=3600">here</a> for a model, paste the text onto your letterhead, and send to Rio Tinto CEO Albanese at <a href="mailto:tom.albanese@riotinto.org">tom.albanese@riotinto.org</a>, copied to <a href="mailto:joe.drexler@icem.org">joe.drexler@icem.org</a> and <a href="mailto:info@ilwu.org">info@ilwu.org</a>.

ICEM Pledges Support to Locked-Out Rio Tinto Workers in US State of California

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Workers&rsquo; Memorial Day this year will use the moniker &ldquo;Unions Make Work Safer,&rdquo; as global labour moves 28 April &ndash; the Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers &ndash; as the one day that every day must bring in the fight for safe, healthy, and risk-free workplaces. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has designated that theme for 2010 in order to emphasize the vital role trade unions play in constantly improving occupational health and safety. 
 
In the UK, the government became one of over 20 countries worldwide to officially designate 28 April as Workers&rsquo; Memorial Day when Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper announced formal recognition of the day on 28 January. After beginning consultations in July 2009, it became clear to the government that the growing number of observances and health/safety renewal commitments on 28 April each year merited official designation. 

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What UK recognition now means is that the government will encourage commemorations of the day throughout the country, with ministers committed to support and promote public commemorations. &ldquo;Workers&rsquo; Memorial Day has been an important date in the trade union calendar for many years and we look forward to working with ministers to increase its profile,&rdquo; stated Trades Unions Congress (TUC) General Secretary Brendan Barber. 
 
The ITUC expects 2010 to exceed the 10,000 activities that occurred in over 100 countries around 28 April 2009. The ITUC itself will produce and release background materials, campaign ideas, and additional tools as 28 April 2010 nears. 
 
&ldquo;Workers&rsquo; Memorial Day gains more local, national, and international recognition with each passing year,&rdquo; stated ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda. &ldquo;And it is only fitting this year to draw attention to workers who, through their unions, have done so much to improve everyday workplace safety and health.&rdquo; 
 
The facts bear this out. In Canada, a recent report by the Ontario Safety and Health Agency found that 79% of unionised worksites report high compliance with health and safety legislation, while between 54% and 61% of non-union workplaces report such compliance. 
 
In Australia, unionised workplaces are three times more likely to have a safety committee and twice as likely to have performed a safety audit as non-union-sites. 
 
The ICEM encourages affiliates to begin preparing now for 28 April. The day became officially recognized by the ILO in 2001 as the &ldquo;International Day of Action for Safety and Health at Work,&rdquo; but had its origins before then. The ITUC marks the day to 1996 when the UN lit Commemorative Candles for the 188 victims of the Kader toy factory in Thailand in 1993. 
 
But the commemoration day has its true roots in the Canadian trade union movement, where unionists worked for several days before the Canadian Parliament in 1989 passed Bill C-223, designating 28 April as the official &ldquo;Day of Mourning&rdquo; for the North American country.

‘Unions Make Work Safer’ Theme for 28 April, Now Official Day in UK

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On 21&ndash;22 January in Kiev, Ukraine, ICEM together with the Freidrich Ebert Foundation (FES) organized an international conference on &ldquo;Restructuring of Mining and Energy Companies in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe.&rdquo; Present were trade union representatives from Bulgaria, Belarus, Hungary, Serbia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, as well as specialists and experts from the ILO, and the Independent Institute on Coal Markets. 
 
Industry-wide restructuring and privatisation is occurring throughout the region, with the process at different stages in different countries. There are major concerns over jobs. Experiences differ, from negative ones in Ukraine, to some of the best experiences reported in Uzbekistan. In Belarus, restructuring has not occurred to the same extent as in other CIS states. 

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ICEM Vice-President Ivan Makohnachuk chairs the meeting
The presentation by Valery Zadenvarg, of the Independent Institute of Coal Markets, addressed the three stages of restructuring in Russia that have resulted in the closing of unprofitable mines and a decrease in coal mining jobs from 800,000 to 180,000. Currently there are 23 more mines in Russia that are slated for closing due to an inability to compete in the marketplace. The presentation by Nikolay Rogovsky of the ILO addressed socially-sensitive restructuring. 
 
The meeting heard that although Poland has ratified ILO 176, the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, it is not being implemented in the country, which is evident by continued coal mine disasters. 
 
The seminar concluded with a request by the affiliates to hold another such seminar in 2011 to gain more knowledge on the experience of restructuring in Western Europe, and on lessons to be learned from ICEM affiliates in those countries.

ICEM, FES Hold Conference on Mining, Energy Restructuring in Central, Eastern Europe

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An ICEM affiliate in Sri Lanka, the Free Trade Zone &amp; General Services Employees&rsquo; Union, is celebrating a successful outcome in its campaign for higher wages in the country&rsquo;s private sector. Until now, wages in the private sector have been governed by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI), but with no dialogue or input from workers&rsquo; representatives. The pay gap between private sector and public sector workers has grown considerably in recent years. 
 
An unskilled public-sector employee can expect a monthly salary of Rs.11,630 (&euro;78), whereas an unskilled private sector employee&rsquo;s minimum wage is Rs. 6,700 (&euro;43). The trade union pressure placed on national government by the campaign moved the Ministry of Labour to raise private-sector minimum wages up by Rs. 2,500. 

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Workers turn out in white to protest low wages
The announcement by Labour Secretary Mahinda Madihahewa signals the government&rsquo;s intent to raise minimum wage across all of the country&rsquo;s trading zones, thus angering business leaders which have grown accustomed to nominal raises each year, or outright restrictions on increases in certain regions. 
 
There was no adjustment to salaries in 2009 as employers rejected BOI recommendations, citing the financial crisis. The BOI withdrew its recommendation in 2009 in the face of an adamant employer response against any increase. In 2009, there was no involvement from workers&rsquo; representatives in the process. 

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The handing over of a 20,000-strong petition
The BOI&rsquo;s recommendation for salary adjustments in 2010 was for a raise of Rs. 500, limited to factories in a small geographical region. The campaign put forth by the Free Trade Zone &amp; General Services Employees&rsquo; Union distributed this information widely and mobilised workers against the low and limited salary. Twenty-thousand signatures were collected protesting the salary revision. These signatures were presented to the office of the Minister of Labour. 
 
The Free Trade Zone &amp; General Services Employees&rsquo; Union campaign focused on educating workers throughout Sri Lanka on the issue, and it included a &ldquo;white dress&rdquo; protest in which workers came to work dressed in white. Media attention to the protest highlighted the workers&rsquo; message and increased pressure on government. The campaign has succeeded with the significant salary hikes, across all private sectors and all regions, and the ICEM congratulates the Sri Lankan union on the campaign.

Campaign for Higher Private Sector Salaries in Sri Lanka Succeeds

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The workers&rsquo; trade union of Cosmos Petroleum Services, Peru, has begun an indefinite strike action following two years of unsuccessful attempts to halt abuses of labour rights in the country. Cosmos is an outsource contractor to Brazilian oil and gas multinational Petrobras. Petrobras Peru&rsquo;s centre of operations is located at Lote X in the El Alto Province, where the conflict is now occurring with workers calling on Petrobras to take responsibility for the conduct of its contractor. 
 
The minimum monthly wage for a Peruvian Petrobras employee is 950 soles, or US$330, and workers of Cosmos are demanding an increase to receive at least that minimum. 
 
Union General Secretary Julio Rigoberto Alarc&oacute;n Fiestas points to the contract agreed between Petrobras and Cosmos on 28 February 2008, that sets forth the extremely low for contract workers. He said that service contract did not account for overtime or bonuses, and in fact was in breach of Peruvian national legislation. 

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He added that even the minimal contractual responsibilities of Cosmos to its staff have not been respected and the union cites numerous abuses, including wage and social benefits below the contractual minimum and information not being made available to workers. 
 
The workers&rsquo; union of Cosmos Petroleum Services asks for support in getting their employer to meet its contractual obligations on wages, and on where and how withheld money is used. 
 
The strike is a brave step for the union, as Cosmos management previously had illustrated its contempt toward union activists in the third quarter of 2008 by suspending workers. The company said financial concerns as the reason, despite that period being a boom in the industry. The suspensions were followed by the cancelling of the workers&rsquo; reemployment, along with cancellation of all redundancy payments. 
 
These actions were then endorsed by Petrobras but were later met by rulings from Peruvian labour authorities that opposed the unilateral actions. These rulings were ignored by Cosmos management. 
 
Union officials at Cosmos also criticize management for refusing to seek a solution during collective bargaining when the previous agreement ended last year. 
 
The ICEM calls on Petrobras to take responsibility for its outsourced workers at Cosmos Peru, and encourages the Brazilian company to step in and settle this conflict. 
 
Petrobras is the largest company in Latin America and the largest company headquartered in the Southern Hemisphere, with output of more than two million barrels of oil equivalent per day. It is also a major distributor of oil products.

Workers of Petrobras Contractor in Peru Take Strike Action

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