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41 Miners Killed In Amasra

Details: Published: Sunday, 23 October 2022 04:03; Hits: 853

Turkey was shaken by the news that 41 workers lost their lives, and many others were injured in a coal mine accident in Amasra district of Bartin. In the Asmara coal mine of the Turkish Hard Coal (TTK), 41 of the 90 workers who were inside the mine lost their lives because of the explosion at around 18:15 on 14 October 2022, which was a new indicator of the value not given to the lives of workers working in mines.

Burkina Faso: Mining continues to produce despite military coup

Details: Published: Saturday, 15 October 2022 20:25; Hits: 727

Despite the military coup in Burkina Faso - the second in a short time - mining monopoly Endeavour Mining is keeping miners working at its mines. Endeavour is the largest mining company in Burkina Faso, operating four gold mines - Houndé, Mana, Boungou and Wahgnion - and two exploration projects.

200 environmentalists killed in the fight for the environment and climate

Details: Published: Saturday, 15 October 2022 20:12; Hits: 633

200 environmentalists were killed worldwide in 2021, according to the non-governmental organisation Global Witness. Most of the attacks - over three quarters - were recorded in Latin America. 33 climate activists were killed in Colombia alone, 54 in Mexico and in Brazil there were 26....

To the striking miners in Brookwood, Alabama USA

Details: Published: Friday, 23 September 2022 11:10; Hits: 763

Dear miners and dear families and friends of miners, Congratulations on your perseverance in the struggle against Warrior Met Coal and its outrageous attacks on you, your families and your union UMWA. We declare our solidarity with your struggle and spread the word among miners and workers here in Germany. We are outraged by the brazen attack on your union, United Mine Workers of America.

Ukraine: miners defy strike ban and go on strike

Details: Published: Tuesday, 20 September 2022 19:30; Hits: 707

we have received the following information about this article from our miners in Ukraine: "I have carefully investigated the situation in our mine 9. Unfortunately, it turned out that it was far from being as simple as described in the article. This mine is state-owned and controlled by the Ministry of Energy. The ministry has appointed a new director and the old director has organised resistance. This struggle has been exacerbated by the fact that money from the budget is allocated for the purchase of coal and the mine has the opportunity to earn and extract coal.

South Africa: Strike, because the minimum wage of 206 US$ is not even enough for food (294 US$)

Details: Published: Wednesday, 31 August 2022 14:07; Hits: 1021

Tens of thousands of workers marched across the country’s cities and towns on 24 August for living wages and to protest deteriorating socio-economic conditions. Unions say the cost of living is high, electricity supply unreliable and expensive, while service delivery by national and local government is erratic.

Information Letter No. 3 of the 3rd International Miners' Conference

Details: Published: Friday, 26 August 2022 16:35; Hits: 1141

Information letter No. 3 for the participants of the 3rd International Miners’ Conference, from 31st of August until 3rd of September, 2023, in Thuringia, Germany.

Hello to all miners as well as your wives and friends,

the International Miners' Coordination is hosting the 3rd International Miners' Conference from 31/8 until 3/9/2023 in Thuringia/Germany while the non-party miners' movement “Kumpel für AUF”, according to their task, assumed the organisational preparation and mobilisation of this conference in Germany.
It is a conference of miners for miners “and guided by the principle that we miners, together with our families, must cooperate internationally and coordinate our struggles if we are to become a superior force to the international mining monopolies and their governments"
(Programme of Struggle of the International Miners' Coordination).

Solidarity statement from the National Preparatory Committee to United Mine Workers of America

Details: Published: Tuesday, 23 August 2022 22:05; Hits: 727

Dear miners and members of the United Mine Workers of America union You have all the solidarity from us, the National Preparatory Group (Germany) for the 3rd International Miners Conference 2023 in your fight for every job at Warrior Met Coal Mining. We are protesting the decision by the Federal Oversight Board that your union should pay for the lost revenue to the mining company from unmined coal and you have our fullest support in fighting this decision.

ICG: "Glück Auf" miners, relatives and friends,

Details: Published: Sunday, 21 August 2022 00:58; Hits: 768

As we have learnt from our Africa coordinator, a horrific accident occurred underground in a coal mine in Jerada. The three victims were poisoned by carbon monoxide in a mine where they had been working in precarious conditions and without any safety precautions and died. A fourth young miner died in the coal mine in Beni Tadjit. I would like to express my solidarity and sympathy to the colleagues and family members.

Morocco: four young workers were left to die because there were no safety measures in place

Details: Published: Sunday, 21 August 2022 00:21; Hits: 818

The city of Jerada, the former mining city, once again invited three young workers in the traditional coal wells (Sandrias), in addition to a fourth young worker who was a victim of a coal well in Beni Tadjit, which raises the number of victims of these traditional wells, since they closed the coal mines of Jerada in 1998, to 48. Among the martyrs of poverty and marginalization, and the absence of any practical solutions on the part of the state's policies, since the uprising of the youth of the city of Jerada in 2018, and the repression and unfair rulings accompanying it.

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