Labour
Focus on Mining Giant Vale at World Social Forum
Jan 05 2010At the invitation of Brazilian activists who are supporting communities struggling against multinational mining giant Vale (formerly Companhia Vale do Rio Doce) in Brazil, and with support from the Steelworkers Humanity Fund and the Canadian Auto Workers Social Justice Fund, MiningWatch’s Catherine Coumans attended the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil in January 2009. Catherine was asked to provide local activists with information about relations between Vale and communities in Canada (Port Colborne and Sudbury in Ontario as well as Labrador), Indonesia and New Caledonia. In each of these places Inco (now owned by Vale and operating as a subsidiary, Vale Inco) is facing serious community concerns and criticism of its operations.
Urgent Appeal: Write to Barrick Gold to Protest Refusal to Reinstate Union Leader
Dec 23 2009UPDATE: After 2-day strike in the Veladero mine (December 17-18, 2009) OSMA-CTA (Organización Sindical de Mineros Argentinos) and Barrick Gold in Argentina signed a historic agreement on Jan. 12, 2010.
Sudbury Vale Inco Workers Striking to Maintain Hard-Won Benefits
Aug 18 2009United Steel Worker Union members from Sudbury, Ontario, are on strike to protect important, hard-won benefits including pensions and the "nickel bonus". The bonus is a profit sharing mechanism paid when nickel prices are high. Despite making substantial profits in recent years, the company is claiming that its Sudbury operations are not sustainable. Vale Inco staff are on record as saying they want to harmonize labour benefits across their global operations.
BHP-Billiton Recognizes Diamond Workers
Jul 19 2006Submitted by Alternatives North.
What is BHP-Billiton so afraid of? That’s the question Mining Watch’s Joan Kuyek asked recently in Yellowknife, NWT, while speaking about the strike at the Australian mining giant’s Ekati diamond mine, 300 kilometres north of the city.
Urgent Need to Investigate Respiratory Impairment of Hemlo Miners
Apr 08 2006EMCBC Mining and the Environment Primer: Labour
Mar 31 2006Colombia Dismantles State Mining Company to Destroy Union, Open Way for Transnational Corporations
Mar 07 2004Declaration on the Investment of Multinational Corporations in Colombia and Against the Elimination of MINERCOL, the State Mining Company of Colombia
Jan 28 2004We, the citizens of the world, have been informed by the workers affiliated to SINTRAMINERCOL-FUNTRAENERGETICA-CUT of the results of their study, titled Large-Scale Mining in Colombia: The Profits of Extermination, and of the decision of President Alvaro Uribe Vélez to liquidate the State Mining Company of Colombia, Minercol Ltda., through Decree 254 of January 28, 2004.
