International News

22.03.2016 Environ 2.000 travailleurs en sous-traitance chez ArcelorMittal Temirtau au Kazakhstan n’ont pas perçu leur salaire en raison des énormes dettes de l’entreprise vis-à-vis de ses sous-traitants.   ArcelorMittal Temirtau, importante compagnie minière et métallurgique au Kazakhstan, sous-paie ses vingt-quatre sous-traitants depuis trois ans, ce qui a conduit ceux-ci à retarder le versement des salaires à leur personnel. Le salaire moyen d’un travailleur en sous-traitance chez ArcelorMittal Temirtau est d’environ

22.03.2016 Around 2000 subcontract workers at ArcelorMittal Temirtau in Kazakhstan have not been getting their wages because of the company’s extensive debts to its contractors.   ArcelorMittal Temirtau, the major mining and metallurgical company in Kazakhstan, has been underpaying its 24 contractors for three years, which has resulted in contractors delaying wages to their workers. The average wage of the ArcelorMittal Temirtau contractor worker is around 35-40 thousand tenge (US$100-115)

23.03.2016   Les affiliés d’IndustriALL au Maroc sont sous le choc alors qu’un tribunal du pays a ordonné la liquidation de la raffinerie de pétrole SAMIR, mettant ainsi en danger les emplois de plus de 1.000 travailleurs et travailleuses ainsi que les moyens d’existence d’environ 5.000 personnes qui dépendent de ce qui est la seule raffinerie du pays.   Tragique ironie du sort, profondément ébranlé à l’annonce du verdict ce

TUMMCIWG activists at Ksani glass container factory in Georgia 14.03.2016 A month-long strike of 170 workers that paralyzed operations at the Ksani glass container factory in Georgia ended on 5 March after tough 12-hour negotiations between the union and management.     The employer agreed to increase salaries by 7.5 per cent as of 1 January 2016, to launch collective bargaining negotiations in April 2016 with a goal to make

05.02.2016     Workers at the Ksani glass container factory went on strike on 5 February, after management continued to neglect union demands to sign a collective agreement and increase wages.   Since September 2015, IndustriALL affiliate Trade Union of Metallurgy, Mining and Chemical Industry Workers of Georgia (TUMMCIWG) has tried to convince management at the Ksani factory to start negotiations over a collective agreement and salary increase. But the

Tens of millions of Indian workers have joined a national strike called by ten major trade union bodies today, in what may be the largest strike in history. The unions are protesting at plans announced by Prime Minister Modi to deprive large segments of India’s workforce of labour law protection at the behest of local and foreign investors.   Workers from manufacturing, mining, the public sector, transport and other sectors,

Indonesia’s main trade union centres KSBSI, KSPI and KSPSI have launched a national campaign over minimum wages and labour laws with a 25,000-strong demonstration of workers in Jakarta. The unions are calling for a minimum wage increase of 25% for 2016, and have rejected a government proposal to handle minimum wage adjustments through an automatic calculation without negotiation. Many workers in Indonesia are unable to make ends meet with high

                Brussels, 6 July 2015 (ITUC OnLine): The results of Sunday’s referendum in Greece confirm for the second time in less than six months that the Greek people decisively reject the austerity policies that have left a more than quarter of the country’s workforce unemployed.     The ITUC urgently calls on the creditor institutions formerly known as “the Troika” – International Monetary

The Gulf States are among the world’s worst countries for workers’ rights, while workers under European austerity measures endured the starkest deterioration of standards, according to the 2015 Global Rights Index.     The ITUC rights index ranks 141 countries against 97 internationally recognised indicators to assess where workers’ rights are best protected, in law and in practice.   “Workers in the Gulf States where the draconian ‘kafala’ system is