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Canada / Brazil : Tell Vale that its strategy of divide and rule will not work

Depuis sa privatisation en 1997, la multinationale minière Vale affronte ses ouvriers. La compagnie a délaissé les normes de sécurité au Brésil et maintenant tourne son regard vers le Canada.

In 2009, lors des négociations avec le syndicat des travailleurs de la sidérurgie (ETC), Vale a réclamé des concessions salariales sérieusesmalgré un bénéfice net de $13 billion (US) in 2008. La stratégie de la compagnie consiste à diviser pour mieux régner en opposant salaires et indemnités liés à l’ancienneté aux rémunérations accordées aux nouveaux employés.

3500 membres de l’USW ont refusé les demandes de Vale et font grève depuis mi-juillet. Vale rétorque en embauchant des briseurs de grève et en obligeant d’autres ouvriers à effectuer le travail des grévistes. At the same time, les ouvriers de Vale au Brésil luttent pour conserver leurs emplois, pour gagner un salaire décent, pour le respect des règles de sécurité, et pour garantir leurs droits fondamentaux.

Les employés de Vale et leurs syndicats au Brésil et au Canada mènent la lutte et appellent leurs camarades du monde entier à les soutenir.

Appuyez-les!

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Solidarity is strengthening in the conflict Nickel

Caught on: http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3346-

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The strike of Canadian miners of the United Steelworkers (ETC) against the Brazilian company Vale-Inco gained intensity on August 1 when 450 Voisey’s Bay miners, in the eastern provinces of Labrador and Newfoundland have walked out. These nickel miners, of copper and cobalt thus join their 3.500 fellow Ontario nickel miners and smelters on strike since 13 July.

Local sections 6500 and 6200 of the USW, in Sudbury and Port Colborne, resist attacks on their work standards launched by Vale, including significant reductions in pensions, productivity bonuses, links to the price index, and increased use of subcontracting which poses a serious threat to job security. The same concessions are claimed in section 9508 of Voisey’s Bay in the form of an autonomous convention.

Visit the strike website to know more.

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Walmart wants to ban the use of circle

wakeup-headerWal-Mart filed, the Superior Court of Quebec, an injunction against the website www.employeswalmartcanada.ca, maintained by UFCW Canada, the union has been fighting for several years to organize the retail giant's workers.

The injunction claims that particular website stops using oval patterns, circular or semi-circular, Walmart word and blue color combination, white and gold. The company even wants the union continues to use the term the union for Walmart workers in Canada !

UFCW asking the public to protest Walmart, by contacting management to show their disagreement with such draconian practices.

More details on the site des TUAC

A small comic video of the union:

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This is the cherry… and union solidarity !

Place the newcomer to the Quebec landscape unionism : Industrial Union of Workers - Industrial Workers of the World. This is an international union, established since 1905. His creation then responds to the desire of workers to organize horizontally, in a radically democratic union. therein, the IWW opposes the bureaucratic tendencies of other trade union organizations.

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