Europe - International Miners Coordination

Proposal 1st May Call from the ICG

Details: Created: Sunday, 25 April 2021 19:44; Hits: 799

May 1st is the Workers' Day of Struggle, especially in times of the Corona Pandemic. The ICG calls on all miners and their families worldwide to actively participate on 1 May, according to their possibilities. For example, through demonstrations and rallies against passing the burden of the crisis on the workers and the broad masses as well as dismantling civil democratic rights. Worldwide, the numbers of infected people and deaths due to COVID-19 are rising while the crisis management of the governments is failing because they follow the dictates of international monopolies who want to secure their profit.

Kazakhstan: There is a lot going on among the miners today

Details: Created: Monday, 19 April 2021 01:01; Hits: 730

We have also, but already in 2017, we had a strong strike of miners of 4 mines. 7 thousand miners were on strike underground for four days and partially achieved an increase in wages. But the main issue of miners in Kazakhstan has not been resolved. Our miners retire at 63 and many receive (myself included) a minimum pension.

Call of the International Coordination of Mineworkers (ICG) for the International Women's Day on March 8, 2021

Details: Created: Friday, 05 March 2021 22:28; Hits: 740

International Women's Day 2021 takes place in the situation of the deepest world economic and financial crisis, exacerbated by the global Corona pandemic, which has the potential to develop into an overall social crisis.
Worldwide there are over 2.2 million dead and over 130 million people suffering from Corona.

To the miners of Zenica Colliery and all other mines on strike in Bosnia

Details: Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2021 21:09; Hits: 845

Hello miners and your family, I, have learned about your strike for your jobs and for the payment of your outstanding wages. I myself am a former miner underground and I can understand your situation very well. I have been in the situation myself to strike against the threat of mass layoffs. As a miner and main coordinator of the international miners' coordination you have our solidarity. Bosnian

Miners of all the world unite! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2021

Details: Created: Sunday, 03 January 2021 00:55; Hits: 840

From Morocco: Dear comrades, I take the opportunity of the New Year to express my sincere fraternal and revolutionary greetings to you, wishing you more international solidarity and support for the working class movements in their struggle against exploitation and harsh living and working conditions.

Germany: Declaration of solidarity to the women miners of the main gold mine Pueblo Arrecife of the El Cielo gold group company in Matlosana

Details: Created: Wednesday, 30 December 2020 11:22; Hits: 749

Dear mothers, daughters and sons and relatives of the striking miners, we, miners' wives from Germany, are following your strike with great interest. Your demands have our full solidarity. We cannot allow our husbands, sons and relatives to have their jobs taken away from them and to be criminalised because they are fighting for their rights, their pension contributions, compensation for funerals and severance pay.

Germany: Declaration of solidarity to miners in artisanal mines in Katanga mining area

Details: Created: Friday, 25 December 2020 19:25; Hits: 874

Dear Miners, I, as a former underground miner in Germany and the main coordinator of the International Miners' Coordination, feel it is my duty, as well as my personal need, to support the struggle for the rights of artisanal miners in old Katanga by the industrial mining companies and the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Declaration of solidarity to the National Workers' Union of Mali (UNTM)

Details: Created: Wednesday, 23 December 2020 12:04; Hits: 864

Hello miners from the Syama Gold Mine of Resolute Mining. You have my full solidarity in your strike against forced leave and leave of absence without pay for miners. We understand this is the second time you are fighting to protect your health in the Covid 19 pandemic. Here you are quite rightly demanding that the mining company takes the protection of miners' health seriously, but also that when you are on leave, your salaries continue to be paid so that you and your families can live decently.

Declaration of solidarity to the miners of the gold mine Village Main Reef

Details: Created: Wednesday, 16 December 2020 18:40; Hits: 755

of the Chinese "Heaven sent Gold Group Company "in Matlosana Dear miners, You have my fullest solidarity in your all-out strike, now underway, against the investigation of alleged property damage, as well as failure to follow instructions and suspension of the 850 miners involved in the sit-in. This is an outrageous criminalization and you have our fullest support.

Germany: Dear miners' wives in Belarus,

Details: Created: Wednesday, 16 December 2020 14:22; Hits: 782

We miners' wives from Germany have heard about your protest against the government. You have shown in your protests that the government simply cannot get through without your protest and courageous and tireless struggle, so you were attacked and experienced violence.

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