Main coordinator says greetings to the miners of the world

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Published: Monday, 17 September 2018 11:47

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with the miners' greeting from Germany: Glück Auf! I wish us much fighting spirit and success for our actions today. Worldwide the mining monopolies want to close down underground mines and instead promote raw materials in open pit mining and other processes such as fracking, which question part of our livelihood. The International Miners' Coordination Group adopted the following resolution at its last meeting in Germany in May: "We call on the miners of the world to fight against the mine closures!

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India: invitation from pradeep

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Published: Monday, 03 September 2018 23:16

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dear comrade,
From July 15th to July 31 our contract workers union in Singareni took up Struggle Jatha programme holding meetings big and small covering almost all the areas and divisions in the company.The main demands on which the campaign took place were regularisation,equal pay for equal work,bonus apart from nine other demands.All the 165 departments, where contract workers are employed, were covered and around
15000 workers participated in these meetings.

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India: Greeting of solidarity at Horster Mitte

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Published: Monday, 13 August 2018 17:40

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dear comrade,

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Kazakhstan: Declaration of Protest to Arcelor Mittal

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Published: Monday, 06 August 2018 15:08

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to Arcelor Mittal Headquarters
24-26, Boulevard d'Avranches
L-1160 Luxemburg
Luxemburg

Dear Sir or Madam,

we have learned that your company Arcelor Mittal Temirtau does not meet some of its social obligations towards the workers. On the contrary, there are increasing attempts to remove or obstruct trade union rights, especially those of the miners and staff in the steel mill. At the same time, employees are being dismissed by illegal methods and the management of your company violates and ignores Kazakhstan's legislation.

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Resolution on the intensifying general threat of war

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Published: Tuesday, 26 June 2018 22:07

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This meeting of the International Coordination Group (ICG), a platform of the mining workers of the entire world, notes with serious concern the various acts of aggression of the imperialist powers, in particular by US imperialism. The recent bombings in Syria by the US, aided by some of the imperialist powers of Europe, are an example. On the other hand, Russia's intervention in Syria is also a pointer to the fact that it does want to use and expand its sphere of influence in the region.

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Ukrainian miners stage protest over unpaid wages

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Published: Tuesday, 26 June 2018 22:06

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21.06.2018 Coalminers organized a mass protest on 19 and 20 June in front of Verhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) in the hope of attracting attention of the parliamentarians to the dreadful situation in the coal mining sector and its effects on conditions for coalminers. Hundreds of miners came to Kiev and participated in the protest action. In the state-owned coalmining sector of Ukraine, workers are compelled to go on wildcat strikes to get paid. Some of the protesting miners from Selidivvugillya have not been paid wages since 2015.

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Solidarity Resolution for the Ukrainian Miners

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Published: Friday, 15 June 2018 16:08

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At the meeting of the International Coordination of the Miners we heard about your month-long struggle for the complete payment of wages and about the intimidation and repression that you have been experiencing through the Ukrainian secret service. We, the ICG, support the protest resolution of our main coordinator and strongly protest against this attack upon the trade union rights of the miners and their right to strike.

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Resolution against the shutdown of underground mining in the entire world

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Published: Friday, 15 June 2018 15:58

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At the meeting of the ICG of the International Coordination of Miners we heard about the extensive shutdowns of underground mining.

We call upon the miners of the world to fight against mine shutdowns!

In Europe, for example, all underground hard-coal mines are to be closed, while the corporations are dividing up the claims for the highly-toxic fracking method in all of Europe. And so, the last reserves on European ground are being opened for the exploitation through the international corporations.

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India: Immediat release of Bacha Singh and Deepak Kumar

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Published: Saturday, 09 June 2018 12:14

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INDIAN FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS(IFTU)
National Committee
Address:Marx Bhavan,7th Line,Vidyanagar,Hyderabad

President: Aparna                General Secretary: Pradeep

IFTU CONDEMNS THE ARREST OF MSS LEADERS
BACHA SINGH AND DEEPAK KUMAR
DEMANDS THEIR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

In the midnight on 31-05-2018, the Jharkand police arrested Bacha Singh,General Secretary and Deepak Kumar,Secretary of the Mazdoor Sangharsh Samithi(MSS) from Chandankiyari in the steel city of Bokaro. It is learnt that their whereabouts are not known and till day they are still in police custody and not produced in any court of law.

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India: FINDINGS OF THE FACT FINDING TEAM ON THE THOOTHUKUDI POLICE FIRING

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Published: Saturday, 09 June 2018 11:22

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On 22-05-2018, a demonstration of about 50000 people before the Collectorate in Thoothukudi, Tamilnadu opposing the expansion of Sterlite company was fired upon by the police killing 11 persons and another two were killed in a similar fashion the next day bringing the death toll to 13. In order to check the veracity of various versions on this grave incident of national importance and find out the real facts,a Fact Finding Team(FFT) was constituted jointly by the Indian Federation of Trade Unions(IFTU),All India Kisan Mazdoor Samithi(AIKMS) and the Progressive Organisation of Women(POW),AP.

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