On behalf of the International Miners’ Coordination, I would like to extend our solidarity to the striking miners at Sibanye-Stillwater in Montana and their families. We wish you every success and much strength in your courageous and self-assured struggle. We stand by your side in your struggle.
I have learnt that Logiport in Italy has sacked the dockworker Ciccio Collina because he campaigned for health and safety at work and for his colleagues’ rights. On behalf of the International Miners’ Coordination Group (ICG), I protest against this dismissal and demand his reinstatement!Miners, too, are finding that their trade union rights are under increasing attack and that militant colleagues who stand up responsibly for their fellow workers are being suppressed and threatened. Our International Struggle Programme states: “We demand that all governments around the world protect the rights to form unions, to assemble and to bargain collectively.
Good luck, to the struggling masses and the miners in Bolivia. We at Kumpel für AUF are the militant wing of the miners’ movement in Germany, and we are also a member organisation of the International Miners’ Coordination (www.minersconference.org). We publicised your struggle at the closing event of the 22nd International Whitsun Youth Meeting and during our discussion on the role of mining and miners for the future of humanity. There, it was unanimously decided to send you our full solidarity with your struggle.
U.S. Solidarity Delegation Blocked From Traveling to Venezuela by Trump's Illegal "No-Fly Zone." Our delegation of peace, justice, and anti-imperialist organizers was prevented from traveling to Caracas to attend the People's Assembly for Peace and Sovereignty—an international gathering of 2,000+ grassroots, labor, women's, youth, and Indigenous movements across the Global South.
Nine years ago, the dam in the retention basin of an iron ore mine in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil burst. Around 40 million cubic metres of toxic wastewater had leaked from the retention basin of an iron ore mine into the Doce River, contaminating hundreds of kilometres. A mudslide destroyed the village of Bento Rodrigues, killing 19 people. Now the mining monopolies responsible have to pay billions in compensation.
An IndustriALL trade union network meeting on 8 September in Johannesburg urged Glencore to be consistent in implementing global policies that protected workers and human rights, community interests, and the environment. Glencore is amongst the multinational companies that are benefiting from the commodities boom linked to decarbonization.
Dear miners and dear families and friends of miners, Congratulations on your perseverance in the struggle against Warrior Met Coal and its outrageous attacks on you, your families and your union UMWA. We declare our solidarity with your struggle and spread the word among miners and workers here in Germany. We are outraged by the brazen attack on your union, United Mine Workers of America.
Dear colleagues,
We have heard that you have been on strike since 7 June. You are waging a courageous struggle for your wages, workers' rights, your lives, your dignity and your health. You have our fullest solidarity in your strike. The burden of the global economic and financial crisis and the increased threat of world war, exacerbated by the Corona crisis, is to be passed on to us. You are leading your struggle against one of the biggest mining monopolies in the world, which are partly responsible for this situation. We miners stand with you internationally and you have our support!
630 miners at the Raglan Nickel and Copper Mine in Nunavik began a strike at the weekend. The mine is located on the Ungava Peninsula in the Arctic region of the Canadian province of Quebec. The miners of the USW union are fighting for better working conditions and higher wages.
In Canada, 630 members of the Syndicat des Métallos/United Steelworkers union are on strike at the Raglan mine. The mine is owned by one of the largest international mining groups, the Swiss company Glencore. Union members are demanding real respect from Glencore. At the nickel mining operation in Nunavik, miners often work 21 consecutive days in eleven-hour shifts.