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ICEM Genel Sekreteri Manfred Warda Meksika h&uuml;k&uuml;metinin uyguladığı sendikal baskıyı Burma ve Zimbabve rejimlerinin uygulamalarına benzetti. Meksika'da y&ouml;netim son olarak iki sendika y&ouml;neticisini tutukladı ve sendikanın banka hesaplarına el koydu. 
 
H&uuml;k&uuml;metin sistemli baskısı altındaki Meksika Maden ve Metal İş&ccedil;ileri Sendikası (SNTMMSRM) &uuml;lkede demokratik bir &ouml;rg&uuml;t olarak varlığını korumak i&ccedil;in m&uuml;cadele ediyor. 
 
Son tutuklamalar &uuml;lkedeki en b&uuml;y&uuml;k bakır madeni şirketi Grupo M&eacute;xico ile diğer işverenlerin isteği &uuml;zerine yapıldı. ICEM başka sendikacıların da tutuklanmak &uuml;zere olduğuna dikkat &ccedil;ekiyor. 

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İki sendika y&ouml;neticisi, SNTMMSRM'nin Politik Sekreteri Carlos Pavon Campos ile sendikanın Genel Adalet Konseyi Başkanı Juan Linares Montufar, Grupo M&eacute;xico'nun Cananea bakır madeninin &ouml;zelleştirilmesinden sonra sendikaya verilen fonları &ccedil;almakla su&ccedil;lanıyor. Meksika'da Fresnillo, Madero, and Sabinas madenlerinin aralarında bulunduğu bir&ccedil;ok işyerindeki maden iş&ccedil;ileri tutuklamaları protesto etmek &uuml;zere iş bıraktılar. Madenciler iki sendikacının serbest bırakılmasını talep ediyorlar. 
Juan Linares'in yasadışı tutuklanması, federal ve eyalet g&uuml;venlik g&uuml;&ccedil;lerince 3 Aralık g&uuml;n&uuml; evinden alınmasıyla ger&ccedil;ekleşti. Carlos Campos'un keyfi ve yasadışı bir şekilde Camarones g&ouml;zaltı merkezine g&ouml;t&uuml;r&uuml;lmesi ise ertesi g&uuml;n ger&ccedil;ekleşti. 
Meksika y&ouml;netiminin baskı uygulamaları son &uuml;&ccedil; yıldır kaygı verici bir seyir izliyor. SNTMMSRM'nin Genel Sekreteri Napoleon Gomez Urretia iki kez sendikadan alınarak g&ouml;t&uuml;r&uuml;ld&uuml;, diğer sendika y&ouml;neticileri de haksız ve uydurma su&ccedil;lamalara maruz kaldı. Bu su&ccedil;lamaların bir&ccedil;oğu mahkemelerden d&ouml;nd&uuml;.

ICEM Meksika Hükümetinin Uyguladığı Sendikal Baskıyı Kınıyor

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The ICEM fully supports the work of the National Federation of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Workers of Pakistan, an affiliate of the International Union of Food Workers&rsquo; Association (IUF). The 723 contract labourers at Unilever&rsquo;s last directly-owned and operated Lipton Tea factory in Pakistan have organised to form the Unilever Mazdoor Union Khanewal. The newly organised workers, with the support of the IUF and ICEM, are preparing a new round of public action to press their case. 
 
The ICEM and IUF call for international support for the cause of these contract workers to form their union. To support their struggle click <a href="http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=396">here</a> to send a message to Unilever. Tell corporate management that the Lipton Khanewal temporary workers must be given permanent employment status - and the way to implement this is through direct negotiations with the affiliated National Federation of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Workers of Pakistan. 
 
Unilever's Khanewal factory employs 22 permanent workers, union members who are covered by a collective agreement. But another 723 workers are hired through six contract labour agencies. The union is assisting contract agency workers to file petitions in the Labour Court to secure their right to permanent employment. 

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The permanent workers receive a monthly base wage of PKR 18,000 - some US$226. The basic wage for non-permanent workers is PKR 6,000, if they are lucky enough to work a minimum 26 days per month. Otherwise the daily wage is PKR 232 - less than three US dollars a day. Where permanent workers receive double for overtime/holiday work, agency workers simply receive the basic hourly wage. Disposable workers have no annual or medical leave. From one week to the next, they do not know their assignments or work schedules - or whether they will have work. Through exploiting workers in this way, Unilever was able to send CEO Niall Fitzgerald into retirement with a &pound;17 million golden handshake. 
 
Unilever employees at the site are illegally blocked from becoming permanent workers, as national legislation states that after nine consecutive months employed under a temporary contract, an employee must be offered a permanent contract to stay. The majority of agency workers at the Khanewal site have been on the job for more than 10 years, with some there for as long as 30 years. But since they are not formally employed by Unilever, they are barred from joining a union of Unilever workers and bargaining with Unilever as their employer. The labour agencies who supply the temporary employees to the factory do not have any other client, and operate their offices inside the Unilever factory itself, clearly a false way of flouting labour law. 
Two Lipton workers dismissed in August after 30 years of working at Unilever's Khanewal tea factory at minimum wage and received no social security, medical benefits or pension. 
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The Lipton workers are fighting for the right of workers everywhere to decent work - secure employment, a living wage, health and retirement benefits, and the right to join a trade union with a collective bargaining relationship to their real employer. 
 
Copies of your messages will be sent to Unilever corporate and Pakistan management, to the union, and to the IUF secretariat. 
 
You can give additional support by taking a moment to visit <a href="http://www.unilever.com/sustainability">http://www.unilever.com/sustainability</a>. Scroll down the page to a section on the lower right entitled &quot;Sustainability during the credit crunch&quot; There you can &quot;vote&quot; yes/no to the question, &quot;Do you consider sustainability in your product purchasing decisions?&quot; This is followed by &quot;Please tell us what actions you are taking to make the world more sustainable,&quot; with fields for name/message. Please take a moment to send the following response, or a message of your own: 
 
&quot;Sustainability is about investing in sustainable jobs - over 700 workers at the Khanewal Lipton factory are disposable workers hired through labour hire agencies, with no employment security and inferior wages and benefits though many have worked continuously for decades. Make the Khanewal workers permanent through direct negotiations with the National Federation of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Workers of Pakistan!&quot;

Support Needed for Contract, Agency Workers Forming Union at Unilever Tea Factory in Pakistan

Estimados trabajadores de MASSUH SA y dirigentes de FOEIPCyQ: 
 
 
La ICEM, federaci&oacute;n sindical internacional del sector de la pulpa y papel, ha dado a conocer a nuestro sindicato la lucha que enfrentan con el fin de lograr que la empresa MASSUH pague como corresponde los sueldos a sus trabajadores. A pesar de que muchas empresas de diferentes partes del mundo enfrentan actualmente una p&eacute;sima situaci&oacute;n econ&oacute;mica, la mayor&iacute;a paga a sus trabajadores, porque saben que sus ganancias provienen exclusivamente del esfuerzo de los trabajadores. 
 
Por tanto, objetamos severamente la decisi&oacute;n de MASSUH de negarse a pagar los sueldos de sus trabajadores. Felicitamos a FOEIPCyQ, nuestro sindicato hermano en Argentina, el haber solidarizado con la lucha de los trabajadores de MASSUH. 
 
Exhortamos a los trabajadores para que se mantengan unidos en la defensa de sus derechos; la unidad en torno al sindicato es la clave del triunfo final. 
 
Saludos solidarios,

Transmit to e-mails: fedpapel@speedy.com.ar and alari@papeleros.org.ar

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The multinational pharmaceutical company Menarini was put on notice 15 January by Italian unions to improve its social contract with workers, or face a first eight-hour strike on 30 January. In a statement by the tri-union Coordinating Committee of the Menarini Group, FILCEM-CGIL, FEMCA-CISL, and UILCEM-UIL jointly gave warning that pay and profit-sharing increases must be made to Italian workers, and greater participation in corporate strategies must be granted workers. 

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The unions are attempting to secure a four-year social compact with the privately-held, Florence-based company, which specialises in development and manufacture of cardiovascular, respiratory, and other drugs. The three unions are still in search of a satisfactory contract with a term stretching from 2008 to 2011. 
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The statement, issued after a 14 January meeting of the Coordinating Committee in Florence, demands a profit-sharing scheme using a different measure and one weighted more heavily on productivity. The three unions also seek wage quotas that meet the industry medium. 
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In addition, the unions demand working conditions, job classifications, and job re-organisation which will give workers more say in decision-making. Menarini, Europe&rsquo;s 19th largest pharmaceutical company, employs 3,850 of its global workforce of 12,500 in Italy. Besides several other Italian worksites, it operates a large bio-technical centre in Pomezia. 
 
In March 2007, the ICEM intervened on behalf of Turkish affiliate Lastik-İş when Menarini&rsquo;s subsidiary in Istanbul, İbrahim Ethan İla&ccedil;lari A.S., sacked union leaders who were seeking Lastik-İş representation. The company&rsquo;s refusal to abide by a court decree recognising the union caused a plant occupation by workers.

Italian Unions Put Demands on Gruppo Menarini, Plan 30 January Manifestation

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French trade unions will mobilise in Paris on 29 January, the result of failed social talks within the public electric and gas companies. The issues are job retention, re-training, and fair pay, and failure thus far to meet social accord is the fault of the federal government and Medef, the employers&rsquo; council in France, say the unions. 
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Eight unions, including federations CGT, CFDT, FO, CFE-CGC, and CFTC, decided in early January to set the mobilisation date, with resumption of social talks scheduled early in February. The three-page declaration is described as a compromise among workers&rsquo; representatives at several French gas and electric worksites over the pay issue. The declaration calls for urgent measures to prioritise job retention, remunerations, and economic revival, beginning first at the workplace. 
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The declaration also said now is the time to increase low wages, social minimums, and to enhance re-training opportunities, an area of general agreement between the three parties. But the unions forcefully denounce French federal government plans to fire 30,000 people from civil service jobs. 
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The French trade union federations&rsquo; call for mass participation on 29 January is urgent, and it is a legitimate &ldquo;workers&rsquo; awakening&rdquo; in the resistance of the neo-liberal agenda.

French Unions Unite in Gas, Electric Sectors for Jobs, Training, Fair Wages

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Leaders of Nigerian ICEM oil and gas affiliates NUPENG and PENGASSAN are mobilising workers as a 21-day ultimatum to the national government draws near demanding revocation to a contract with US-based Cobalt International covering pre-shipment services on oil exports. 
 
If the government does not, strikes will occur. 
 
NUPENG last week sent a petition to the Minister of Petroleum, Rilwan Lukman, clarifying that the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) is statutorily required to carry out the work of pre-shipment services, and that instead of hiring an outside firm at great cost, the government should allow Nigerians and DPR workers to do the work. 
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NUPENG said the contract with Cobalt &ldquo;should be abrogated with immediate effect,&rdquo; and demands the Nigerian state use its oil and gas revenues to acquire the necessary equipment &ldquo;to enhance its supervisory role in the oil and gas industry. 
 
&ldquo;The contract with Cobalt International Ltd. should not be allowed to stand because it serves as a conduit pipe for siphoning money by agents of multinationals from our national treasury,&rdquo; stated NUPENG. 
 
Elsewhere in Nigerian labour, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Adetokumbo Kayode, called for increased levels of dialogue between labour and the federal government during these times of economic difficulty. This positive move by the new minister for closer cooperation encouraged trade union leaders in Nigeria. &ldquo;Government, in order to move the country forward, will engage labour in a constructive dialogue on labour matters,&rdquo; said Kayode. 
 
This occurred while NUPENG was endorsing an electronic loading system, to be introduced across the energy-rich country by the Petroleum Equalization Fund. The system will monitor diversion of petroleum products, track information, and assure accurate billing and payment of products both at loading and receiving terminals. Some of the most dangerous work in Nigeria&rsquo;s oil patch is done by tank-truck drivers, who are members of NUPENG. 
 
Both NUPENG and PENGASSAN again addressed the security problem facing their union members in the Niger Delta region. The two unions issued a joint statement demanding further government intervention to ensure workers&rsquo; security at work.

Nigerian Oil Workers’ Move Closer to Strike Action on Outsourcing

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ABD ile Kolombiya arasında yapılacak bir Serbest Ticaret Anlaşması &ouml;ncesinde, sendika aktivistlerine y&ouml;nelik cinayetlerin soruşturulmasında &Aacute;lvaro Uribe h&uuml;k&uuml;metinin sorumluluğunu tespite y&ouml;nelik &ccedil;alışmalar &ccedil;er&ccedil;evesinde, ABD Temsilciler Meclisi Eğitim ve Sendika Komitesi, ge&ccedil;en ay cinayetlerle ilgili olarak tanık ifadesine başvurdu. 
 
Soruşturulan olaylardan biri, ICEM'den &ouml;nce maden sekt&ouml;r&uuml;nde faaliyet g&ouml;steren Uluslararası Madenciler Federasyonu'nun (MIF) Kolombiya'daki koordinat&ouml;rl&uuml;ğ&uuml;n&uuml; y&uuml;r&uuml;ten Jorge Dar&iacute;o Hoyos'un 2001'de katledilmesiydi. 

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Yessika Hoyos
Soruşturma sırasında, Washington'da, Jorge Dar&iacute;o Hoyos'un 25 yaşındaki kızı Yessika Hoyos tanıklık yaptı. Yessika Hoyos, polisin su&ccedil;un ger&ccedil;ek faillerinden iki kişiyi tutuklamasına rağmen, &ouml;ld&uuml;rme emrini verenlerin tutuklanıp kovuşturulması i&ccedil;in hi&ccedil;bir &ccedil;aba harcanmadığını s&ouml;yledi ve şunları vurguladı: &ldquo;Aralarında ordu mensuplarının da yer aldığı diğer faillerle ilgili kanıtlar bulunduğunu biliyoruz. Kanıtların &uuml;zerine gerektiği gibi gidilmiyor ve diğer failler saptanmıyor.&rdquo; 
 
O sıralar 61 yaşında olan Dar&iacute;o Hoyos 3 Mart 2001 g&uuml;n&uuml; Bogot&aacute; yakınlarında yaşadığı kent olan Fusagasuga'da paramiliter bir grubun a&ccedil;tığı ateş sonucunda &ouml;ld&uuml;r&uuml;lm&uuml;şt&uuml;. Hoyos 1984-1991 d&ouml;neminde MIF Kolombiya koordinat&ouml;r&uuml;yd&uuml;. Daha sonraki yıllarda &ouml;ğretmenlerin, banka emek&ccedil;ilerinin ve telekom&uuml;nikasyon emek&ccedil;ilerinin sendikalarında &ouml;rg&uuml;t&ccedil;&uuml; ve toplu s&ouml;zleşme danışmanı olarak &ccedil;alıştı. 
 
Şubat 2009'daki ABD Kongresi oturumunda, Temsilciler Meclisi Eğitim ve Sendika Komitesi şu saptamayı yapmıştı: &ldquo;Kolombiya h&uuml;k&uuml;meti sendika liderlerine karşı tırmandırılan şiddeti durdurmak ya da sendikacı cinayetlerinin &uuml;zerine gitmek i&ccedil;in yeterli &ccedil;aba harcamamıştır.&rdquo; Kolombiya Ulusal Sendika Okulu'nun bir s&ouml;zc&uuml;s&uuml; ise tanık olarak verdiği ifadede, d&uuml;nyadaki sendika aktivistlerine y&ouml;nelik t&uuml;m cinayetlerin y&uuml;zde 60'ının Kolombiya'da işlendiğini belirtti.

ABD&#039;de Kongre Komitesi Kolombiyalı Sendikacının Öldürülmesiyle İlgili Tanıkları Dinliyor

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ICEM 24 Mart 2009'dan itibaren Cenevre'deki yeni yerine taşınmış olacak. Cenevre'de eski kent yakınlarındaki yeni işyerinin adresi ş&ouml;yle: 20 rue Adrien Lachenal, 1207 Geneva. 
 
İşyerinin genel telefon numarası, faks numarası ve b&uuml;t&uuml;n cep telefon numaraları aynı kalıyor. 
 
ICEM'in 570 metre karelik yeni işyeri mek&acirc;nı modern bir binanın iki katına yayılıyor. Nisan 2008'den bu yana &ccedil;alıştığımız 150 metre karelik eski işyeri mek&acirc;nına g&ouml;re yenisi daha işlevsel ve sendikal &ccedil;alışmaya daha elverişli. 
 
ICEM &uuml;yesi b&uuml;t&uuml;n sendikaları ve onların temsilcilerini Cenevre'ye geldiklerinde genel merkezimizi ziyaret etmeye &ccedil;ağırıyoruz.

ICEM 24 Mart&#039;tan İtibaren Cenevre&#039;deki Yeni Yerine Taşınıyor

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Miners at Europe&rsquo;s largest coal company, Poland&rsquo;s Kompania Weglowa, are now taking measures that could lead to an early April strike following a 19 March mediation session. Those talks produced little movement in efforts to resolve 2009 wage negotiations. 
 
The state-run company&rsquo;s 65,000 miners at 16 colleries are led by ICEM affiliates NSZZ Solidarność and Kadra, and the Polish Miners&rsquo; Trade Union, with some nine other smaller unions also involved. Miners engaged in a two-hour warning strike at Kompania Weglowa on 12 March. But during the 19 March talks, management&rsquo;s 4.6% wage offer still fell several percentage points short of miners&rsquo; demands. 
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Also locked in wage talks are 40,000 miners at two other state-owned coal servicing and production companies, Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa (JSW) and Katowicki Holding Weglowy. Both companies are seeking to impose a wage freeze on miners this year. At JSW, a formal labour dispute was declared on 19 March. 
 
A strike is also a distinct possibility at Poland&rsquo;s copper company, KGHM, after management also proposed a 2009 wage freeze. This dispute, also led by Solidarność, is fueled by management&rsquo;s decision to ignore recommendations made by workers&rsquo; representatives on the company&rsquo;s supervisory board in a 2009-2018 business plan. 
At Kompania Weglowa, management has threatened to lay off 3,000 workers if it was forced to meet the unions&rsquo; wage demands. The two-hour warning strike 11 days ago saw the company&rsquo;s coal output drop by 8,000 metric tonnes. Kompania Weglowa&rsquo;s annual production of coal is 47 million tonnes annually.

Polish Miners Now Ready for April Strike After Mediation Fails

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Two ICEM Nigerian oil workers&rsquo; affiliates, NUPENG and PENGASSAN, are ready to shut down the Niger Delta&rsquo;s oil and gas industry beginning early on Wednesday, 25 March, because of government indifference toward rescinding a plan to deregulate the downstream sector. 
The unions, together with their national labour centres &ndash; the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trades Union Congress &ndash; issued a 21-day strike notice on 3 March following the decision by the Presidential Steering Committee on the Global Financial Crisis to divest the government of its four refineries. The committee&rsquo;s policy announcement also means withdrawing all petroleum subsidies to Nigeria&rsquo;s citizens. 
The industrial action will come in the form of a three-day warning strike. The strike is also aimed at growing insecurity in the Niger Delta region for oil workers, who have become targets of kidnappings. 
According to an action plan drawn up by the unions joint National Executive Council, &ldquo;all operations/ services are to be safely shut down beginning from midnight of 24 March. There should be no gathering of any kind by members during the strike. All members not in field/offshore locations should stay at home during the strike. 
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&ldquo;Members in field/offshore locations shall bring down the operation within the days and remain at those locations.&rdquo; 
The strike is also in protest to outsourcing of 21 export terminals by the government and a continuing dispute at Conoil-Belbop, a publicly-listed oil and gas exploration company, as well as a marketer of petroleum products. The company has been engaged in blatant union-busting since 2007. 
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Peter Akpatason
Regarding the sell off of the refineries and removal of fuel subsidies, NUPENG President Peter Akpatason argued that &ldquo;the timing of the deregulation is very wrong&rdquo; and it is being proposed at &ldquo;a period when salaries are stagnant and the value of a falling naira is working against Nigerians and would inflict hardship.&rdquo; 
Akpatason added, &ldquo;Our major concern is that we are increasingly seeing a situation where people with little or no knowledge about the petroleum industry are being charged with formulating policies for the sector.&rdquo; 
Former NUPENG General Secretary Frank Ovie Korkori also lent his voice against deregulation. He called the government&rsquo;s plans &ldquo;too simplistic, (too) pedestrian. (If) they deregulate now, you will see free market methodology Nigerian style and I don&rsquo;t support that because you cannot have a limitless or blanket deregulation in any economy.&rdquo; 
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Bayo Olowoshile
PENGASSAN General Secretary Bayo Olowoshile said protest rallies began simultaneously late last week by oil and gas workers in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Asaba, and the capital city of Abuja in preparation for the warning strike. Today, a final protest rally is scheduled for Abuja. 
In other Nigerian news last week, the Investments and Securities Tribunal granted an interim injunction for a restraining order against the country&rsquo;s Securities and Exchange Commission. The injunction is aimed at preventing the agency from divesting its 60% stake in the former downstream operations of Texaco, now Chevron Nigeria Holdings. The injunction expires 7 April. PENGASSAN is one of several bidders for the downstream operations of the company.

Nigerian Oil Workers Prepare for 3-Day Warning Strike over Downstream Deregulation, Delta Insecurity

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ICEM Meksika Hükümetinin Uyguladığı Sendikal Baskıyı Kınıyor

Support Needed for Contract, Agency Workers Forming Union at Unilever Tea Factory in Pakistan

Transmit to e-mails: [email protected] and [email protected]

Italian Unions Put Demands on Gruppo Menarini, Plan 30 January Manifestation

French Unions Unite in Gas, Electric Sectors for Jobs, Training, Fair Wages

Nigerian Oil Workers’ Move Closer to Strike Action on Outsourcing

ABD'de Kongre Komitesi Kolombiyalı Sendikacının Öldürülmesiyle İlgili Tanıkları Dinliyor

ICEM 24 Mart'tan İtibaren Cenevre'deki Yeni Yerine Taşınıyor

Polish Miners Now Ready for April Strike After Mediation Fails

Nigerian Oil Workers Prepare for 3-Day Warning Strike over Downstream Deregulation, Delta Insecurity

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