Contract and Agency Labour Campaign Current Case Examples ICEM Affiliate

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Contract and Agency Labour Campaign Current
Case Examples ICEM Affiliate

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Argentina

• Who FeTERA
• When April
• Company Edea SA
• What Through Dialogue and Collective Agreement,
  Union Wins Rights for 30 Contract Workers to move
  to the Energy Companys Core Staff.

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Australia

• Who National Union of Workers
• When April 27 June 4
• Company Kemelex Plastics
• What Auto-plastic Boss forces 55 Migrant Women
  on Strike with Plans to Fire Them, then Re-hire
  as Individual Contractors. Strike and National
  labour Attention Keep Workers Permanent with New
  Enterprise Agreement.

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Australia

• Who Communications, Energy
• Plumbing Union (CEPU)
• When July 5
• Company Western Power
• What 700 Utility Workers in 24-hour Strike over
  Responsibilities of Contract Workers on Jobsites
  (key issue among several). Company Backs Down in
  Dialogue.

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Finland

• Who Finnish Transport Workers AKT
• When Since April
• Companies Steveco, Aker Finnyards, etc.
• What Dock Workers Stage 24-hour Strikes, and 3
  and 4-day Strikes in Rauma, Hamina, Kotka, Turko
  and Helsinki over Redundancies. Stevedoring Firms
  and Passenger Ferry Companies laying-off ¼ of all
  Permanent Workers in favour of Contract Workers.

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France (Saint-Nazaire)

• Who 20 Polish Electricians
• When July 21
• Company Chantiers de lAtlantique
• What Polish Sub-contractor at Shipyard Abandons
  Workers Owing Back Wages. Workers Start Hunger
  Strike. French Contractor (Gestal) Will Not Pay,
  Nor Will Primary Employer Chantiers de
  lAtlantique. No Clear Regulation in French Law
  for Who Has Responsibility.(new term Cascading
  Sub-contracting)

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Korea

• Who KFTU-Chemical Workers Union
• When June 14
• Company San Remicon Cement Co.
• What Branch Leader Kim Tae-hwan Killed on Picket
  Lines by Cement Truck Driven by Replacement
  Driver. Drivers of 3 Cement Firms Striking for
  Union Recognition Permanent Work Status Under
  Korean Law.

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Nigeria

• Who PENGASSAN
• When Mid-June
• To Nigerian Department of Petroleum Resources
  All Contractors
• What 4-day Workshop by Union Urging National
  Assembly to amend Petroleum Act of 1969 Making
  the Granting of Recruiters License More
  Stringent. (Draft Guidelines Taking Shape to
  Regulate Private Employment Agencies).

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Nigeria

• Who NUFBTE (Food Union)
• When August 17
• Company Assn. of Food, Beverage and Tobacco
  Employers
• What Issued a August 31 Deadline to Stop Use of
  Casual Workers Outsourcing, or Direct Action
  will Result. Industry is Shifting Clerical,
  Labeling, Machine Operators, etc. from Permanent
  Status to Casual, and Laying-off and then
  Outsourcing Driving, Maintenance and Security.

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Sierra Leone

• Who Electricity Employees Union
• When July 29-30
• Company National Power Authority
• What Union Members Start Mass Rallies at Labour
  Ministry when Utility Bosses Fail to Cooperate on
  Investigation of Contract Labour. Some Workers at
  Power Authority Casual for 12 Years with No
  Benefits/Entitlements.

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Thailand

• Who PCFTs Tyre Makers Union
• When September
• Company Goodyear Tyre Rubber
• What A Court Hearing on whether or not Goodyear
  Must Extend CBA Benefits and Labour Agreement
  to18 Long-term Rubber Stock/Warehouse Workers.
  (This is case in which PCFT Branch Chairman Anan
  Pol-ung was Terminatedand Later Reinstatedfor
  Supporting these Year-by-Year Contract Workers.)
• Conference Resolution for Adoption

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USATexas City, Texas

• Who PACE/United Steel Workers
• When March 23
• Company BP
• What 15 Contract Workers Die in the Worst US
  Refinery Blast in 20 Years. 170 Others140
  Contractorsare Injured. BP Granted Waiver of
  Refinery Safety Rules to Contractors to Set Up
  Work Trailers in Hazardous Zone. Exhaust Fumes
  from Contractors Truck, left running, Absorbed
  into Hydrocarbons Vent of Isomerization Unit.

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Chad

• Who Unorganised Contract Workers
• When September 18
• CompanyChad/Cameroon Constructors--Esso-Tchad,
  Chevron, Petronas (Malaysia)
• What Chad national police violently break-up a
  peaceful sit-in, leaving 3 dead. They arrest 30.
  US12 million unpaid in overtime wages after
  workers construct US3.7 billion pipeline in 2003
  ahead of schedule.

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Mauritania

• Who Energy Petroleum Workers Union (CGTM)
• When Strike started October 14
• Company Woodside Petroleum El Majabaat El
  Koubra Tours (MKT)
• What MKT, transport/logistics contractor to
  Woodside, sacks 16 workers after signing
  agreement w/ Union establishing Nov. 1 for Unit
  Election. (10 of 16 were to stand for union
  office.) Union takes complaint to Labour
  Minister. MKTs response