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Arjantin'e giden bir ICEM heyeti k&uuml;resel krizin &uuml;lke &uuml;zerindeki etkilerini inceledi, ayrıca ICEM'in 2011'de Buenos Aires'de yapılacak kongresi i&ccedil;in &ouml;n incelemelerde bulundu. ICEM Genel Sekreteri Manfred Warda federasyonun Arjantin'deki &uuml;yeleri ile 29 Nisan'da bir araya gelerek ekonomik kriz konusunda g&ouml;r&uuml;ş alışverişinde bulundu. Ayrıca, ekonomik kriz konusunda ICEM &uuml;yesi olmayan sendikaların da g&ouml;r&uuml;şlerini aldı ve onlarla ICEM'e &uuml;yelikleri konusunu g&ouml;r&uuml;şt&uuml;. 
 
ICEM'in Cenevre'de 23-24 Haziran g&uuml;nlerinde yapılacak Y&ouml;netim Kurulu'nda Beşinci D&uuml;nya Kongresi'nin yapılacağı yer konusunda karar alınacak. Arjantin sendikaları Kongre'ye evsahipliği yapmak istiyorlar. 

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Warda, ICEM'in Latin Amerika İrtibat Sorumlusu Carol Bruce ile birlikte, Arjantin Kau&ccedil;uk İş&ccedil;ileri Sendikası SUTNA, Enerji ve Petrol İş&ccedil;ileri Sendikası FeTERA ve &ouml;zel sekt&ouml;rdeki Petrol ve Gaz İş&ccedil;ileri Sendikası FASPyGP ile g&ouml;r&uuml;şt&uuml;. ICEM heyeti, n&uuml;kleer enerji iş&ccedil;ilerini temsilen ICEM'e katılmak isteyen Uni&oacute;n Obrero Metal&uacute;rgical (UOM) sendikasının yanı sıra, Arjantin ulusal sendikal merkezine (CTA) bağlı sendikalarla da ICEM'e katılım konusunu g&ouml;r&uuml;şt&uuml;. 
 
Carol Bruce Arjantin'de iki g&ouml;steri y&uuml;r&uuml;y&uuml;ş&uuml;ne katıldı. 22 Nisan'daki g&ouml;steri y&uuml;r&uuml;y&uuml;ş&uuml;n&uuml; d&uuml;zenleyen ulusal sendikal merkez CTA, Arjantin'de işten &ccedil;ıkarmalar konusunda 180 g&uuml;nl&uuml;k bir moratoryum ilanını ve iş&ccedil;ilerin &uuml;cret kayıplarını karşılamak &uuml;zere devletin bir acil durum &ouml;demesi yapmasını talep ediyor. 
 
30 Nisan'da ise, Bruce, &ouml;b&uuml;r b&uuml;y&uuml;k ulusal sendikal merkez CGT'nin, krizin ve işsizliğin sorumlusu neoliberal politikalara karşı d&uuml;zenlediği g&ouml;steri y&uuml;r&uuml;y&uuml;ş&uuml;ne katıldı.

ICEM Heyeti Arjantin&#039;deki Krizi İnceledi

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ICEM, 15-16 Nisan g&uuml;nlerinde Singapur'da, Asya/Pasifik b&ouml;lgesinde taşeron iş&ccedil;iliği &uuml;zerine bir konferans d&uuml;zenledi. Konferansa sendikalardan 50 temsilci katıldı. 
 
Katılımcıların aktardıkları deneyimler taşeron iş&ccedil;iliğinin b&ouml;lgede yaygınlaştığını ve &ccedil;alışma ilişkilerine zarar verdiğini ortaya koydu. ICEM ve Friedrich Ebert Vakfı'nın yanı sıra, Singapur, Tayland, Filipinler, Malezya, Hindistan, Endonezya, Nepal ve Kore sendikaları ile İsve&ccedil;, Danimarka ve Almanya sendikalarının temsilcileri g&ouml;r&uuml;ş ve deneyimlerini sundular. 
 
D&uuml;zenli, s&uuml;rekli ve doğrudan istihdam edilen iş&ccedil;ilerin yerine daha d&uuml;ş&uuml;k &uuml;cretli taşeron iş&ccedil;ilerinin getirilmesi aşağı yukarı her Asya &uuml;lkesinde yaygın bir sorun. 

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B&uuml;t&uuml;n katılımcılar ortak bir sorun olan korku fakt&ouml;r&uuml; &uuml;zerinde durdular. Taşeron iş&ccedil;ileri, işlerini kaybetme kaygısıyla, sendikalaşmak bir yana, sendikal konuları konuşmaktan bile korkuyorlar. 
 
Bu alandaki sorunlardan biri de, &ouml;zellikle Filipinler'de, Hindistan'da ve Endonezya'da olduğu gibi, yasalara uyulmamasıdır. Katılımcıların dile getirdiği bir başka sorun ise bazı &uuml;lkelerde sendika sayısının &ccedil;okluğunun işbirliğini zorlaştırmasıdır. 
 
Bu alandaki olumlu gelişme ise, sendikaların ICEM k&uuml;resel kampanyasının hedeflediği şu &uuml;&ccedil; d&uuml;zeyde ağır ama emin adımlarla ilerlemeye başlamasıdır: yasa değişiklikleri (Filipinler'de bir yasa tasarısı hazırlanıyor); şirket d&uuml;zeyinde &ccedil;alışmalar (sorunu toplu s&ouml;zleşme g&ouml;r&uuml;şmelerinin ve &ouml;rg&uuml;tlenmenin ana ve &ouml;ncelikli konusu haline getirmek); taşeron iş&ccedil;ilerinin sendikalara katılabilmesini sağlayacak sendika i&ccedil;i yapılar oluşturmak. Tayland, Malezya, Hindistan, Singapur ve Kore'de bu ger&ccedil;ekleşti. 
 
Bu bağlamda herkesin kabul ettiği &ouml;nemli bir sorun, sendikal &ccedil;alışmayı şirket d&uuml;zeyiyle sınırlı tutmayıp işkolu ya da sekt&ouml;r d&uuml;zeyinde &ouml;rg&uuml;tleme ihtiyacıdır. &Ccedil;&uuml;nk&uuml; işverenlerin şirket d&uuml;zeyinde iki iş&ccedil;i grubunu (taşeron iş&ccedil;ileri ile s&uuml;rekli iş&ccedil;ileri) &ldquo;b&ouml;l&uuml;p y&ouml;netmesi&rdquo; genellikle daha kolaydır. 
 
Ne var ki şu sıralar başarı hik&acirc;yelerinden ziyade sorunlar ağır basmaktadır. Bunun somut &ouml;rneklerinden biri, Tayland'da bir sanayi gazı şirketi olan Linde'de istihdam edilen taşeron iş&ccedil;ilerinin sayısındaki artışın &ouml;n&uuml;n&uuml;n alınması ve taşeron iş&ccedil;ilerine tamg&uuml;n ve s&uuml;rekli istihdam olanaklarının sağlanmasıdır. 
 
Asya'da &ldquo;taşeron iş&ccedil;ilerinin istihdam teknikleri&rdquo; ile ilgili olumsuz &ouml;rneklerden bazıları şunlardır: 17 aylık standart s&ouml;zleşmelerin bitiminden itibaren, toplu s&ouml;zleşmeler, iş&ccedil;ilerin haklarının artırılmasını &ouml;ng&ouml;rmektedir. Bir diğer &ouml;rnek ise, denet&ccedil;ilerin taşeron iş&ccedil;ilerine sendikal &ouml;rg&uuml;tlenme konusunda a&ccedil;ık&ccedil;a ayırımcılık uygulamasıdır. Filipinlerde, şirketler, işe başlamadan &ouml;nce taşeron iş&ccedil;ilerine istifa mektupları imzalatmaktadır. Bir kısım iş&ccedil;iden ise &ccedil;alıştıkları işe başka bir adla yeniden girmeleri istenmektedir. B&ouml;ylece iş&ccedil;ilerin s&uuml;rekli iş&ccedil;i sayılması &ouml;nlenmektedir.

ICEM&#039;in Singapur Konferansı Bölgedeki Taşeron İşçilerinin Sorunlarını Ele Aldı

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The ICEM expresses condolences to the members and leaders of affiliate Zimbabwe Electricity and Energy Workers&rsquo; Union (ZEEWU) over the sudden passing of ICEM General Secretary Ian Munjoma on 23 December 2007. 
 
In a letter to ZEEWU President Angeline Chitambo, General Secretary Manfred Warda said: &ldquo;On behalf of the ICEM and its staff, I would like to convey to you, your union, and his family our sincere condolences and deepest sympathy.&rdquo; 
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Comrade Munjoma was a forceful advocate for workers&rsquo; rights, particularly inside both the Zimbabwe Electric Supply Authority (ZESA) and the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOCZIM). He fought on behalf of workers&rsquo; interests and against corruption within ZESA, and undertook necessary and successful measures to ensure that ZEEWU members got sizeable wage increases in inflation-torn Zimbabwe. 
 
He died at his home in rural Bocha Mutare. Burial was on 25 December 2007.

ICEM Mourns Death of Ian Munjoma, Zimbabwe’s Electricity/Energy Union General Secretary

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As reported in an ICEM News Release in November 2007 (&ldquo;<a href="/en/?id=184&amp;doc=2479&amp;la=EN">Contract and Agency Labour - a Global and Negative Phenomenon</a>&rdquo;), the ICEM held a one-day conference on Contract and Agency Labour at the 4th ICEM World Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, on 21 November 2007. 
 
The 300 participants at the conference discussed tendencies and changes in global subcontracting and agency-work practices. They collectively noted an increase of the phenomenon in workplaces on all continents, and in almost all countries. In addition to taking note of the problem, many speakers also talked about the actions they are taking in their countries to deal with the issue. 
 
For a more <a href="/en/?id=73&amp;doc=2529&amp;la=EN">comprehensive summary of the conference</a>, overlooking the different contributions in more detail, please <a href="/en/?id=73&amp;doc=2529&amp;la=EN">click here</a>.

Report from Contract and Agency Labour Conference, Bangkok, is Available

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A key discussion conference will be held 24-25 January, in Brussels, by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) on Decent Work that will shape this year&rsquo;s European Commission report on the subject. The conference is entitled &ldquo;Decent Work for All &ndash; Mobilising EU and Partners,&rdquo; and is held ahead of the EC&rsquo;s expected mid-2008 progress report on a 2006 EC Communication on Decent Work.
Two sessions will occur each day, with a round-table discussion concluding the conference at 14h30 on 25 January. The four sessions will deal with Decent Work within Lisbon; Trade and Decent Work; Decent Work and Government; and Youth Employment, Migration, Mobility, Employment, and Development. 
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The Decent Work Agenda was also linked to sustainable development at last November&rsquo;s ILO Governing Board meetings in Geneva. The Working Group on the Social Dimension of Globalisation convened a round-table forum on Decent Work. Joaqu&iacute;n Nieto, Spanish labour federation CC.OO Secretary of Health, Safety, Environment, stressed that workers and their enterprises must be the first priority in transition to sound and sustainable development. 
 
He said, for example, that a &ldquo;great transition&rdquo; will need to occur in order to reduce carbon emissions, but that this must be fully accompanied by a &ldquo;just transition&rdquo; based on labour rights, social protections, and training.

‘Decent Work’ Campaign Elevated in 2008 in Europe

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ICEM UK affiliate Unite won union recognition for newspaper printing workers at a plant in Worcester, a city in west-central England in Worcestershire County. Workers, by 100%, balloted for Unite in voting conducted by UK&rsquo;s Advisory, Conciliation, and Arbitration Service (ACAS) recently. 
 
The printing plant is owned by Newsquest Plc., a subsidiary of Gannett, the big US-based media group. Gannett purchased Newsquest&rsquo;s assets in the UK in 1999 for &pound;904 million. Unite has collective agreements at other worksites of Newsquest, which publishes some 11 daily newspapers and scores of other print publications across the UK. 
 
&ldquo;This is a great achievement for all our members at Worcester who now have a framework in place to start negotiating on issues that matter to them,&rdquo; said Unite Regional Officer Ted Scott.

UK’s Unite Union Wins Recognition of Gannett Print Workers in Worcester

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Two former General Secretaries of ICEM affiliate National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in South Africa won major leadership posts in the country&rsquo;s ruling political party, the ANC. At the Polokwane conference of the ANC in December, Gwede Mantashe won a landslide vote as Secretary-General of ANC, the key day-to-day leadership position at ANC&rsquo;s Luthuli House, while Kgalema Motlanthe won the position of Deputy President, second only to newly-elected ANC President Jacob Zuma. 
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Mantashe served as General Secretary of the NUM from 1998 to 2006, while Motlanthe preceded Mantashe at NUM in the 1990s before become Secretary-General himself of the 670,000-member ANC, late in 1997. 
 
The ANC elected Zuma, Motlanthe, Mantashe, three other elected officers, and a 60-member National Executive Committee at its meetings in Polokwane. The ICEM applauds the NUM for producing social leaders that will now leave positive marks on the lives of all South Africans. The ICEM also believes the trade union backgrounds of the new leaders will serve the ANC well in the imminent healing that will occur within South Africa&rsquo;s leading party.

Past NUM GSs’ Rise High in Leadership of African National Congress

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A three-day Coal Conference for global trade unions was held in Calcutta, India, 14-16 December 2007, hosted by India&rsquo;s trade unions, including ICEM affiliate Indian National Mineworkers&rsquo; Federation (INMF). The conference had the full involvement of the ICEM, the International Energy and Mines Organisation (IEMO), the ILO, as well as several national mining unions. 
 
The conference focused on mine safety, specifically around a work plan to get more countries to ratify ILO Convention 176, the Safety and Health in Mines Convention. Martin Hahn, from the ILO&rsquo;s Sectoral Activities Department, who facilitates the Committee of Experts for Mine Health and Safety, gave an excellent presentation on effective measures for organising toward ratification of Convention 176. 
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Presentations were made by MK Pandhe of the All India Coal Workers&rsquo; Federation, who spoke on an IEMO paper entitled &ldquo;Globalisation, Privatisation, Outsourcing, and the Trade Union Response.&rdquo; Other topics addressed included the trade union position on carbon emissions. The conference also explored new technologies in coal mining, privatisation, and provided an overview of the current, unprecedented growth rates in coal consumption and production. 
 
The conference produced an 11-point declaration, focusing on the fact that mining is one of the world&rsquo;s highest safety-risk occupations. That declaration called on nations to &ldquo;not only take the necessary steps to ratify ILO Convention 176, but that they also take urgent action to ensure that the commitments&rdquo; contained in the Convention &ldquo;are put into practice.&rdquo; 
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The declaration also rejected the privatisation of state mining assets, and it took note of the inequality in blame placed on coal mining and coal burning regarding climate change. The declaration, in addition, condemned the growing trend by mining employers &ldquo;to engage contract and casual labour in preference to permanent employees.&rdquo; The <a href="/en/?id=5&amp;doc=2528&amp;la=EN">declaration</a> in its entirety <a href="/en/?id=5&amp;doc=2528&amp;la=EN">can be found here</a>. 
 
Over 100 trade union leaders from 14 coal-producing countries attended last month&rsquo;s Coal Conference. Representing national trade unions included delegates from the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union (CFMEU), Australia; National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), South Africa; the Miners&rsquo; Independent Trade Union of Russia; National Union of Mineworkers of the UK; Mines and Energy Union (CGT), France; the Federation of Energy, Geology and Mining Workers&rsquo; Trade Unions (MEGM), Mongolia; Sintracarb&oacute;n, Colombia; as well as trade unions representing coal miners in Canada, New Zealand, Poland, and the Ukraine. 
 
The ICEM, the international organiser for the event, thanks the ILO and the trade unions of India, including the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), for their efficient hosting of the conference.

Coal Conference in India Focuses on Health/Safety, Ratification of ILO Convention 176

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An 11 January methane coal blast 500 metres inside ArcelorMittal Steel&rsquo;s Abaiskaya coal mine in central Kazakhstan has killed at least 23 miners. Seven of the miners died instantly in a blaze of fire, the company reported. 
 
Rescue attempts were halted over the weekend because of high temperatures and carbon monoxide concentration caused by the early morning, 11 January explosion.
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&ldquo;We cannot risk the lives of rescuers,&rdquo; stated Kazakh Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Bozhko. &ldquo;The situation is similar with the one in Ukraine&rsquo;s Zasyadko coal mine where rescuers died,&rdquo; a reference to the deaths of five rescuers on 2 December 2007, 13 days after 111 miners perished at Zasyadko in the Donbass region of the Ukraine. 
 
Last Friday&rsquo;s blast in Kazakhstan occurred in the same area where 41 miners of ArcelorMittal Temirtau died on 20 September 2006. A methane explosion happened then at the company&rsquo;s Lenin mine. That disaster, the worst mining mishap in Kazakh history, prompted a mass strike by upwards of 24,000 workers in September and early October 2006. It was resolved with pay increases of 30% over two years, and, more importantly, promises of improved mining equipment and safety technology.
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Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal, the world&rsquo;s largest steelmaking concern, controlled by Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, operates eight coal mines around its massive steel-producing operations in the Karaganda region, including Tentekskaya, Shakhtinskaya, Kazakhstanskaya, Kuzembayev, Kostenko, Saranskaya, as well as the Lenin and Abaiskaya mines. 
 
In December 2004, 23 miners died in a gas blast inside the Shakhtinskaya mine. The government of Kazakhstan has ordered a special commission to investigate the cause of the latest explosion. Mittal began mining and steel-making operations in Kazakhstan in 1995.

Methane Blast Kills at Least 23 at ArcelorMittal Coal Mine in Kazakhstan

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During the July-August 2007 sector-wide tyre strike by 6,000 members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), 150 contract workers defied bosses at one of the producers &ndash; Goodyear &ndash; and joined NUMSA on picket lines. The ICEM-affiliated union then successfully defended the contract workers in court cases, while their rights after the American company challenged their right to strike. 
 
Those 150 contract workers have been rewarded for making their stand during that strike. As a result of language won by NUMSA regarding labour brokers, the contract workers are now former contract workers, as of this year. That means they have job security, medical assistance, and they are covered by the Tyre Industry&rsquo;s Provident Fund.
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And they are also full-fledged union members of NUMSA. 
 
Contract workers at Goodyear&rsquo;s 800-worker Uitenhage tyre-making plant near Port Elizabeth have pressed hard for entitlement to legitimate job rights. In April 2006, a strike by 300 contract workers was narrowly averted when NUMSA members at the auto, truck, industrial tyre plant threatened to join the strike. They won concessions from Goodyear and contract employers then. 
 
NUMSA News, the union&rsquo;s monthly journal, credits the contract workers for &ldquo;their discipline over the last five years and the fact that they have appreciated all efforts that NUMSA undertook for them.&rdquo; 
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The NUMSA industry-wide strike last year achieved first-year wage gains of 8%, and 7.5% for both the second and third years. Contract workers employed by Goodyear&rsquo;s labour brokers took keen interest to know that NUMSA also won skill-based development training, five months maternity leave, 15-day annual leave, and a 10.5% contribution increase by employers to the Provident Fund.
NUMSA also reports that 21 contract workers at Dunlop-Apollo Tyre&rsquo;s production plant in Durban &ndash; another plant struck last year &ndash; won permanent job rights, effective early in 2008. The ICEM commends NUMSA for these important achievements, as well as salutes contract workers in South Africa&rsquo;s rubber industry for standing up to assert their rights.

2007 South African Tyre Strike Pays off for Contract Workers at Goodyear

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ICEM Heyeti Arjantin'deki Krizi İnceledi

ICEM'in Singapur Konferansı Bölgedeki Taşeron İşçilerinin Sorunlarını Ele Aldı

ICEM Mourns Death of Ian Munjoma, Zimbabwe’s Electricity/Energy Union General Secretary

Report from Contract and Agency Labour Conference, Bangkok, is Available

‘Decent Work’ Campaign Elevated in 2008 in Europe

UK’s Unite Union Wins Recognition of Gannett Print Workers in Worcester

Past NUM GSs’ Rise High in Leadership of African National Congress

Coal Conference in India Focuses on Health/Safety, Ratification of ILO Convention 176

Methane Blast Kills at Least 23 at ArcelorMittal Coal Mine in Kazakhstan

2007 South African Tyre Strike Pays off for Contract Workers at Goodyear

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