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- February 17, 2012 Excellon Resources Management Continues to Ignore Problems in Mexico as Workers, Landowners and Shareholders Suffer The United Steelworkers (USW) is again criticizing Excellon Resources management for refusing to engage in constructive dialogue to end a host of problems plaguing their only operating mine in Mexico. The latest example is breaking off discussions with a group of small landowners from whom Excellon had leased land for exploration, the USW says.
- February 13, 2012 Colombia, Coal & Murder In March of 2001, I was in Colombia with a delegation from the United Steelworkers union to show solidarity with unionists who were under the threat of violence, including murder. As has often been said about Colombia, “it is the most dangerous country in the world to be a trade unionist.” This was as true back then as it is now.
- February 02, 2012 USW Vice-President Redmond Joins National Endowment for Democracy Board Fred Redmond, USW International Vice President (Human Affairs), has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The NED is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.
- January 31, 2012 Action Alert for USW Members in the Northeast Sunoco and ConocoPhillips have arbitrarily decided to shut down three strategic oil refineries on the East Coast, all three in or near Philadelphia, Pa. All three of these refineries are USW workplaces, and if the companies follow through on their threat, 1,300 of our members will lose their jobs.
- January 30, 2012 Steelworkers Congratulate New Leader of Sweden's Social Democrats United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo W. Gerard congratulated Stefan Löfven, president of the Swedish Metalworkers Union IF-Metall, who was elected today to head Sweden’s Social Democrat Party.
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- July 20, 2011 Keep UK rail manufacturing on track petition 1,400 workers at Bombardier in Derby could lose their jobs because the government is set to award a contract to build new trains to a rival company, meaning most of the work will be done in Germany.
- July 18, 2011 Korea: Stop police assault on Hanjin workers, free jailed trade unionists Armed with water cannons and liquid tear gas, police fired on 10,000 Korean workers and their families marching to a Hanjin Heavy Industries shipyard on July 9-10 in an effort to squash growing support for laid off workers and members of the Korean Metal Worker' Federation protesting mass-dismissals (in breach of a job security agreement) since December 2010.
- June 23, 2011 Colombia: Tell Vale no more union busting As if it wasn’t hard enough for unions to operate in Colombia, now Vale wants to make it harder. Workers at global giant Vale’s El Hatillo coal mine in Colombia recently organized with the union SINTRAMIENERGETICA and presented modest bargaining demands. Rather than negotiate, Vale has attempted to dictate the process by which the union formulates its demands.
- June 23, 2011 Ask Wal-Mart to Stop Sexual Abuses in Its Supplier in Jordan We are horrified and deeply outraged that scores of young women guest workers from Sri Lanka are being sexually abused and repeatedly raped while sewing clothing for Wal-Mart at your supplier factory, Classic Fashion, in Jordan.
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- June 23, 2011 Solidarity Center 2010 Annual Report Through its regional and thematic programs in more than 60 countries, the Solidarity Center and its partners strive every day to hasten the success of union heroes and their allies in other worker rights organizations throughout the developing world as they struggle to build independent and effective unions.
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