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COLOURFUL RALLY OPENS WORLD SOCIAL FORUM IN TUNISIA March 28, 2013: Tens of thousands of people rally in the streets as the World Social Forum open in Tunis. “Another world is possible” confirm the demonstrators, demanding social justice instead of neo-liberal policies. IndustriALL’s General Secretary Jyrki Raina and Assistant General Secretary Fernando Lopes marched with
Read moreIndustriALL Headlines are produced by IndustriALL Global Union in Geneva, Switzerland PETROTRIN WORKERS FORCED BACK TO WORK AFTER STRIKE On 13 March, thousands of employees of the state-owned oil company Petrotrin, members of the Oil Workers Trade Union (OWTU), affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union, stopped work and demonstrated in front of the company’s offices in Point-a-Pierre,
Read moreIndustriALL Headlines are produced by IndustriALL Global Union 32,000 INDIAN STEEL WORKERS ORGANIZED SINCE 2010 Through IndustriALL Global Union’s organizing project known as “More members, fewer unions” two Indian affiliates, the INMF and SMEFI, organized over 32,000 new members between 2010 and 2012. March 14, 2013: The Project Advisory Committee (PAC) Meeting of the India
Read moreIndustriALL Headlines are produced by IndustriALL Global Union. U.S. NISSON WORKERS AT GENEVA MOTOR SHOW Workers from a Nissan plant in Mississippi, in the United States, held a tree planting ceremony in front of the Geneva Auto Show on 7 March calling on visitors to Show to “look beneath the shine of Nissan”. March 7,
Read moreIndustriALL Headlines are produced by IndustriALL Global Union FAMILIES OF BANGLADESH FIRE VICTIMS GET COMPENSATION On 24 February 2013 Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina handed out compensation to the families of fire victims at Smart Fashion factory of 26 January 2013. The agreement was negotiated by the IndustriALL Regional Office, IndustriALL Bangladesh Council of
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