As rf-news.de reported on 29.6.2023, the Boliden Group wants to temporarily shut down the largest zinc mine in Europe and the eighth largest zinc mine in the world, about 50 kilometres from Ireland's capital Dublin. Most of the 650 or so workers will stay at home without pay, with a few continuing to work on maintenance tasks.
Miners around the world are a powerful force. Many of them are at the forefront of the most important workers' struggles. Billions of oppressed people - women, environmentalists, migrants, indigenous people - want a future worth living for themselves and their children. More and more are realizing: for this, you have to unite across countries and fight in an organized way.
To the public German embassy and federal government Belgian Embassy in Congo Dear Ladies and Gentlemen today's nationwide meeting of the militant miners' movement Miners for AUF has learnt that the German and Belgian embassies in Uganda and Congo have delayed or even refused to issue visas for delegates to the 3rd International Miners' Conference, which will be held in Germany from 31.08.2023 to 02.09.2023.
Hello delegations of the 3rd IMC, Again, we would like to remind you of the country reports for the III. International Miners' Conference. In the Info Letter No. 5 from January 2023, concerning the importance of the country reports we wrote as follows: "The reports on the country of the respective delegations from various states present the special situation of miners, their struggles as well as progress and problems of the miners' movement in its country to the other participants at the beginning of the conference.
Dear comrades. We, Moroccan miners, are sorry to hear about the news of the threat of our comrade from Germany Andreas Tadysiak to his housing stability, which he occupied for years, during which he spent the flower of his youth working in the company's mines. Is the patronal miners so greedy that one of its workers is deprived of his and his family's housing stability?
We, the International Coordination of Mineworkers support the World Women's motto. "We are women, we are strong" - this leitmotto was fought for by the 450 participants of the World Women's Conference of Grassroots Women 2022 in Tunis in the headwinds of a world whose ruling systems only exist in crises: Economic and financial crisis, political crises, environmental crises, food crises, crisis of bourgeois refugee policy, crisis of health care, debt crises, etc....
Panel at mining indaba calls for decent work during energy transition 9 February 2023Will I have a job after the energy transition, what kind of job, in what sector, and will I earn as much as I do now? These questions, asked by workers in the context of the energy transition, were the starting point for discussions at IndustriALL's panel at the African Mining Indaba in Cape Town on 8 February.
Hello miners, miners' wives,, Hello miners' friends, in Infobrief 3 we already informed you about the successful meeting of the International Coordination Group and some of its results, especially concerning the preparation of the 3rd International Miners' Conference. Today we want to inform you further: The International Coordination Group united on the importance of international brigadists and wants to mobilise broadly for this.
31 August to 3 September 2023 in Thuringia/Germany Registration and preparation of the discussion forums Dear participants of the 3rd International Miners' Conference, The task of the open discussion forums at the 3rd International Miners' Conference is to intensively discuss the core issues of the worldwide situation and struggles of miners and their families with the aim of developing coordination and cooperation to a higher level internationally.