Africa - International Miners Coordination

Report from Morocco

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Friday, 05 March 2021 10:53; Hits: 728

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.

Report of the Africa Coordinator of the International Mineworkers' Coordination

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 28 December 2020 12:46; Hits: 924

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.

Morocco: 100 Miners Occupy the Jebel Aouam Mine Underground

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Sunday, 20 December 2020 12:46; Hits: 746

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.

Morocco: Declaration of solidarity to the Ukrainian and South African miners of Fathi from Morocco

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:08; Hits: 714

Dear comrades, I have received your report of strikes and demonstrations, the conditions you are living are the same as those that many miners have experienced, that is, the closure of mines managed in the same way throughout the world and that the crisis begins with the non-payment of the workers, to make the miners face poverty so that they cannot resist the demonstrations and weaken in front of the decision-makers, and like all mining towns, the whole population is attached to the wages of the workers who circulate and create indirect jobs,

South Africa: Strike in gold mining

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Wednesday, 09 December 2020 16:57; Hits: 745

Since December 1, the workforce of the Village Main Reef gold mine in Matlosana, southwest of Johannesburg, has been on strike. The miners had noticed that allowances for funerals and severance payments for those laid off were not being paid. For weeks, the NUM union demanded information from management about the whereabouts of pension contributions to the pension fund, which continued to be deducted from the workers' salaries.

Africa: Report of our Continental Coordinator

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Friday, 27 November 2020 12:57; Hits: 754

As far as the pandemic is concerned, the countries of the Third World, and especially the Arab countries, have applied the law of state of emergency, which gives governments the right to ban all demonstrations and demands and gives them the right to persecute and condemn activists, it is an opportunity to attack all the achievements of the working class.

Declaration of solidarity to the Congolese miners

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Saturday, 19 September 2020 04:12; Hits: 857

Hello miners, relatives and friends, Through the news and the internet we have heard about the terrible accident at your gold mine in Kamituga, South Kivu province. We are deeply shocked by this tragedy which has left over 50 people dead. Our thoughts are with you and your relatives. But we also feel anger and indignation that such an accident is happening today.

Congo: Voici la déclaration de la dame concernée

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 10:44; Hits: 865

,I am Dr Rekha,Indian citizen.i came here on regular request of Ritesh shah,he is Dyms at HJ hospital.i appointed as gynecologist at HJ.some month passes smoothly.after I found single women are called here,if some one want to call known or some family members ,they refused.they start directly and indirectly torture on them.only females who follow their orders,they allow them them to do their job, otherwise they start to torture them and they left the job.they terminate mostly females to put pressure on them.if female ready to obey them,she was physically abused by doctors and higher management, even some girls are supplied outside.some female staff went to their embassy but they don't get response as this people manipulate the higher authority by bribe or power.

democratic Republic Kongo: Report about the Mining Sector

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Thursday, 02 July 2020 18:44; Hits: 802

FOSYCO has its central Headquarters in the three mining Provinces Katanga, Kasai-Oriental and South-Kivu. It may be emphasized, that the headquarters of all companies normaly are localized in the capital Kinshasa. In general commit all mining companies their employees to stay on site. Some Companies grants modest bonuses, which in no way compensated the work and availability of the employees at the work places compared with the social legislation.

Kenia: To the miners and their members of the Macalder mines

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 04 June 2018 19:45; Hits: 1454

Dear families and mates,

We learned about the bad luck in the Macalder mines through the Kenyan Peasants League. With our thoughts we are with the trapped and missing colleagues who are fighting for their lives, but also with the relatives of the killed buddies and their friends.

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