Colombia: Sintracarbón fights for 450 jobs at Cerrejón

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Published: Saturday, 06 March 2021 15:00

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Sintracarbón continues to fight for decent jobs and working conditions at Cerrejón, Colombia, while the company is putting pressure on 450 workers to accept voluntary retirement. If they don’t, the workers will be dismissed without just cause. According to IndustriALL Colombian affiliate Sintracarbón, on 23 February, Cerrejón threatened 450 workers with dismissal if they didn’t accept retirement.

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Call of the International Coordination of Mineworkers (ICG) for the International Women's Day on March 8, 2021

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Published: Friday, 05 March 2021 22:28

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International Women's Day 2021 takes place in the situation of the deepest world economic and financial crisis, exacerbated by the global Corona pandemic, which has the potential to develop into an overall social crisis.
Worldwide there are over 2.2 million dead and over 130 million people suffering from Corona.

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Report from Morocco

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Published: Friday, 05 March 2021 10:53

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With the pandemic, people all over the world are only thinking about life and how to protect themselves from the Corona virus, the danger that threatens our daily lives. We are living not only an economic and social crisis, but also a psychological crisis, conditions that have favoured governments and capitalists to act against all the achievements of the working class and, in particular, against the right to work.

To the miners of Zenica Colliery and all other mines on strike in Bosnia

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Published: Saturday, 27 February 2021 00:06

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Hello miners and your family, I, have learned about your strike for your jobs and for the payment of your outstanding wages. I myself am a former miner underground and I can understand your situation very well. I have been in the situation myself to strike against the threat of mass layoffs. As a miner and main coordinator of the international miners' coordination you have our solidarity. Bosnian

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Pakistan: Miners demonstrate and block the road against fascist attack

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Published: Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:22

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7 January, 2021 Pakistani mineworkers' unions estimate that at least 208 workers were killed on the job in 2020. This trend seems set to continue this year, with a fatal accident on New Years' Day, and two fatal accidents and a terror attack on 3 January. So far this year, 14 mineworkers have been killed.!

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Miners of all the world unite! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2021

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Published: Sunday, 03 January 2021 00:55

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From Morocco: Dear comrades, I take the opportunity of the New Year to express my sincere fraternal and revolutionary greetings to you, wishing you more international solidarity and support for the working class movements in their struggle against exploitation and harsh living and working conditions.

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Germany: Declaration of solidarity to the women miners of the main gold mine Pueblo Arrecife of the El Cielo gold group company in Matlosana

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Published: Wednesday, 30 December 2020 11:22

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Dear mothers, daughters and sons and relatives of the striking miners, we, miners' wives from Germany, are following your strike with great interest. Your demands have our full solidarity. We cannot allow our husbands, sons and relatives to have their jobs taken away from them and to be criminalised because they are fighting for their rights, their pension contributions, compensation for funerals and severance pay.

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Report of the Africa Coordinator of the International Mineworkers' Coordination

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Published: Monday, 28 December 2020 12:46

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It is a zinc, silver and lead mine located in the Middle Atlas region (Khenifra province), with 300 miners organised in the central union, the Moroccan Labour Union (UMT). The working class of the jbel ouam mine has very severe working conditions, either from the point of view of safety (frequent fatal accidents) or from the point of view of wages and benefits in kind, forcing the miners to make repeated protests.

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Morocco: 100 Miners Occupy the Jebel Aouam Mine Underground

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Published: Sunday, 27 December 2020 23:39

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100 Moroccan mine workers have spent the past week 700 metres underground, occupying the Jebel Aouam mine near M'rirt in Khénifra province. Another 200 workers are protesting above ground. The workers are striking and occupying the mine because the management of Compagnie Minière de Touissit (CMT) failed to implement an agreement signed with IndustriALL affiliate l'Union Marocaine du travail (UMT) in 2019.

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Germany: Declaration of solidarity to miners in artisanal mines in Katanga mining area

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Published: Friday, 25 December 2020 19:25

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Dear Miners, I, as a former underground miner in Germany and the main coordinator of the International Miners' Coordination, feel it is my duty, as well as my personal need, to support the struggle for the rights of artisanal miners in old Katanga by the industrial mining companies and the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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