In Canada, 630 members of the Syndicat des Métallos/United Steelworkers union are on strike at the Raglan mine. The mine is owned by one of the largest international mining groups, the Swiss company Glencore. Union members are demanding real respect from Glencore. At the nickel mining operation in Nunavik, miners often work 21 consecutive days in eleven-hour shifts.
More workers have lost their lives in Pakistan's deadly coal mines. In May alone, 18 miners have died on the job. On 19 May, a miner at the Ghazi mine fell through a roof and died on the job(Ed. note: The roof the hanging and the miner died on the job). Just two days later, on 21 May, a worker was electrocuted in the Duki coal field and a landslide killed another miner in the same field.
Northeast now 7.12.2021 Police preliminary report said that the firing incident occurred at 4:10 pm on Saturday when eight coal miners of Oting village were returning home in an open Mahindra pick-up truck from their workplace in Tiru valley. Six died on the spot while two others were seriously injured, the police report said. Also read: Nagaland massacre:
Miners at the Ishtamberdi gold mine in Kyrgyzstan have been on strike for more than three weeks. Their demand is 50 per cent more pay. Previously, they had rejected the offer of a 10 per cent increase. The operator is the Chinese company Full Gold Mining, which in turn is a subsidiary of the state-owned company Lingbao Gold.
7 miners were about to go into their well-deserved retirement when the cork bucket used to lift them to the surface fell down a 240-meter shaft after the wire rope broke. The accident occurred on May 14 at Bucks Mine near Gwanda, and the bodies of the deceased workers were recovered following salvage operations by the Ministry of Mines and Mine Development and other mine rescue teams.
According to the police, the victims in the gold mine are all women. At least twelve people have died in a landslide in a mine shaft in Indonesia. According to the police, all of the victims are women. The accident occurred on Thursday in the province of North Sumatra, as the local police chief Reza Akbar announced on Friday.
28.04.2022, 06:11 Uhr Fuerabamba: Police have cleared an occupied copper mine in southern Peru. Nearly 700 officers broke up a protest camp of farmers at the Las Bambas mine site in the Apurímac region, police said Wednesday. The security forces fired tear gas into the crowd, and the occupants hurled stones at the officers, the radio station RPP reported.
Strike week 7 for the miners of the Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine organised in the AMCU and NUM unions. The 25,000 strikers are fighting for more pay. A total of 31,000 workers are employed at Sibanye Stillwater. This is the largest gold, platinum and palladium producer in the world. The miners rejected an offer from Sibanye of 850 rand.
Report of the Polish ICG member. Regarding the current situation I have to say that unfortunately we have a black series of accidents in JSW, the rescue operation in Pniówek mine is not yet finished and already there was another accident, this time in Zofiówka mine. In the Zofiówka mine there was an earth tremor, as a result of which a part of the mine building collapsed and buried 10 miners; unfortunately all the miners died.
Report of a miner from Kazakhstan. In Kazakhstan we are also preparing for May Day and many collectives and public organisations have announced rallies in all cities. At the rallies in all cities of Kazakhstan we will raise the issues of wages, the low social level of workers in the country and our Kazakh issues after the events in January.