A recently released study by the Human Science Research Council of South Africa’s Witwatersrand University reveals that the country’s mining industry is becoming more and more reliant on short-term contract workers and casual labour. The survey found, for instance, that over 60%... Read the article

Mine safety in South Africa was enhanced on 21 November when the country’s Parliament passed amendments to the Mine Health and Safety law. The legislation must now go to President Kgalema Motlanthe for his signature before becoming effective. But South Africa’s government... Read the article

The dismantling of anti-social work laws in Australia has finally begun, a full year after a Labour government replaced the failed economic and social policies of former Prime Minister John Howard. On 25 November, introduction of some 650 pages of rollbacks to Howard’s work laws came... Read the article

After a long process of collective organisation and negotiation, ICEM affiliate Sintravidricol of Colombia, together with the workers of Caldas Glass Company, VICAL S.A., achieved a significant victory against Contract and Agency Labour (CAL). The right to organise collectively was established,... Read the article

Fourteen Turkish trade unions, comprising the ICEM Coordinating Committee of Turkey, met in Ankara on 20 November and formulated an ambitious agenda related to union-building activities. Led by the ICEM Secretariat, Turkey’s leading trade union officials agreed to an Organising... Read the article