Global Action News
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6 May 2013
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Media release
Report Reveals How Canadian Diplomacy Supported Deadly Blackfire Mining Project
Released documents reveal Canadian authorities put public resources at the service of Calgary-based Blackfire Exploration despite connections with suspects in activist's murder and widely reported allegations of corruption.
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6 May 2013
Report: Corruption, Murder and Canadian Mining in Mexico
Corruption, Murder and Canadian Mining in Mexico: The Case of Blackfire Exploration and the Canadian Embassy.
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5 May 2013
Canadian Mining Companies Have a Negative Impact on Human and Labour Rights in Mexico
Canadian Mining Companies are having a negative impact on human and labour rights in Mexico, concludes Steelworker and civil society delegation that travelled to Mexico in February 2013. Highlights of delegation report "The Accountability Gap"
- 30 April 2013 Mexican Landowners in Toronto to Demand Accountability from Excellon Resources Inc. for Abuses This morning, communal landowners of the Ejido La Sierrita in Durango, Mexico attended Excellon Resources’ Annual General Meeting to testify to company mismanagement.
- 30 April 2013 The Accountability Gap - VIDEO Canadian Mining Companies are having a negative impact on human and labour rights in Mexico, concludes Steelworker and civil society delegation that travelled to Mexico in February 2013. Video highlights delegations findings.
- 29 April 2013 | Media release Barring Meaningful Change, Excellon Resources Risks More Trouble, Steelworkers Say Excellon has refused to engage in any serious dialogue with communal landowners at its La Platosa mine in Mexico – the company’s chief source of revenue.
- 26 April 2013 Open letter to Mexican Communities and Workers An open letter to Mexican communities and workers from our Canadian group who travelled to Mexico in February 2013 on a fact-finding and solidarity delegation.
- 13 March 2013 Room for dialogue on mining ethics Op Ed by Doug Olthuis and Ian Thompson on the government's failure to fund the CSR Centre for Excellence.
- 23 February 2013 Door shuts on thousands of cheap foreign workers EXCLUSIVE: THOUSANDS of low-paid foreign workers will be stopped from coming into Australia and taking local jobs under a crackdown on visas.
- 19 February 2013 | La Jornada In Chile They Were Rescued; in Mexico They Were Abandoned The world remembers the Chilean success in October 2010 when 33 miners were rescued alive after the collapse of their mine. In Mexico we can't forget the bravery and sadness of the explosion at Pasta de Conchos.
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11 February 2013
Tell PKC to Reinstate Workers in Mexico
Join the global campaign for union rights in Mexico. Send a message to PKC, a Finnish auto-parts supplier, calling for the reinstatement of fired workers.
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7 February 2013
Mexico Days of Action 18-24 February 2013
Labour organizations are mobilizing around the world for trade union rights in Mexico.
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19 November 2012
ProDesc Fact Sheet responds to Excellon
ProDesc Fact Sheet to set the record straight on the La Platosa Conflict in Durango, Mexico.
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8 November 2012
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IndustriAll-union.org
IndustriALL-LabourStart-Amnesty International-PRODESC join forces for Mexican miners
Under a joint banner of IndustriALL, LabourStart, Amnesty International, and Mexican NGO PRODESC, an online petition was launched yesterday decrying the forceful demolition of a workers’ protest camp at Excellon’s La Platosa mine, Mexico.
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6 November 2012
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LabourStart
Take Action: Stop the Violence at Excellon's La Platosa Mine in Mexico
Steelworkers, show your support for the workers and landowners in Mexico who have been violently evicted from their peaceful protest camp.
- 4 September 2012 Take Action: State-Owned Utility in Zimbabwe Tries to Break Union 135 energy workers at Zimbabwe's state owned utility ZESA were suspended indefinitely without pay or benefits after they threatened to strike on 10 July.
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30 August 2012
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Huffingtonpost.ca
Excellon Mine Blockade Breached By Mexican Security Forces, Company Regains Access
Following a seven-week-standoff with landowners in Durango State, Mexico, soldiers and police officers have moved to disperse a blockade at a mine owned by Toronto-based Excellon Resources. The company did not indicate when it intends to resume regular production at La Platosa, which is its only revenue-generating source.
- 28 August 2012 | Huffington Post.ca Excellon Blockade: Mexico Conflict Highlights Shortcomings Of Canadian Mining Oversight As the blockade at the Excellon mine in Mexico nears its two-month mark, company and landowners are still at an impasse and governmental oversight has been largely ineffective.
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27 August 2012
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LabourStart
Siemens - Stop Union-Busting in the U.S.
Send your message! Tell Siemens to live up to its agreements in the U.S. Let's show our support for workers who are struggling to create a union.
- 21 August 2012 | USW Statement, IndustriALL, RadioLabour USW, IndustriALL and Radio Labour on the Killing of Miners at South Africa's Lonmin Mine Conflict escalated into tragedy in South Africa on August 16 as at least 35 workers were shot dead by police at the Marikana platinum mine.
- 20 August 2012 Mexican Farmers Battle Canadian Mining Company for Control of Their Land Civil disobedience has halted production at Mexico’s “top grade producer of silver.”
- 14 August 2012 | PRODESC media release Excellon Once Again Breaks Negotiation with Communal Landowners of La Sierrita Negotiations between Excellon Resources Inc. and landowners of La Sierrita broke off before they began on Monday, August 13th as the company's CEO left the room five minutes into the meeting over the issue of the ongoing peaceful protest at the mine site.
- 9 August 2012 | PRODESC media release Community Commemorates One-Month Mark of Peaceful Blockade of Excellon Resources, Inc.’s La Platosa Mine in Durango, Mexico The Mexican national human rights network All Rights for Everyone declares support for the demands of the community members as they defend their communal land.
- 30 July 2012 | Media release Ontario Securities Commission Requested to Broaden Investigation of Disclosures by Excellon Resources Second letter filed with Ontario Securities Commission regarding statutory disclosure requirements by Excellon Resources.
- 27 July 2012 | Prodesc Media Release Canadian Mining Company Excellon Provoked Break-up of Negotiations with Ejido La Sierrita, Threatened to Violate Land Rental Contract Excellon Resources' threat puts at risk access to important mineral deposits for production at the La Platosa mine.
- 17 July 2012 | Media update Communal Landowners’ Peaceful Protest Continues to Suspend All Production at Excellon Resources’ La Platosa Mine The Ejido La Sierrita has entered its second week in peaceful protest of Excellon Resources, Inc.'s La Platosa mine in Durango, Mexico, with all operations suspended in the mine.
- 16 July 2012 | Media release Formal Request Submitted to Ontario Securities Commission for a Full Investigation of Excellon Resources The Justice and Corporate Accountability Project has asked the Ontario Securities Commission to investigate Excellon Resources Inc.
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11 July 2012
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Media release
Canada’s Excellon Resources Threatens Arrests, Judicial Action as Mexican Landowners Demand Respect for Human Rights
More than 70 landowners decided to carry out a peaceful blockade of Excellon’s La Platosa mine due to the company's unwillingness to resolve festering disputes over a land rental contract.
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26 June 2012
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LabourStart
Support London Bus Workers: LabourStart
With only weeks to go to the Games and despite repeated calls by UNITE the union for fairness, London’s bus operators are still refusing the Olympic payment that has been offered to virtually every single London transport worker.
- 23 May 2012 USW Calls on Mexico’s Government to Defend Human Rights and Labour Activists United Steelworkers National Director Ken Neumann urges the Government of Mexico to immediately reinstate protections for human rights and labour activists and to investigate and sanction those responsible for attacking and threatening these advocates.
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28 March 2012
CNCA Cites Lack of Progress on Recommendations from National Roundtables on Corporate Responsibility
The Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA), in which the USW participates, issues a statement citing the lack of progress toward implementing the recommendations arising from the National Round Tables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries.
- 16 February 2012 | Media Release Excellon Resources Management Continues to Ignore Problems in Mexico as Workers, Landowners and Shareholders Suffer "Excellon is fast becoming a poster child for bad behaviour by Canadian mining companies,” says USW National Director Ken Neumann.
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12 January 2012
Vale Competes for "Worst Company in the World"
Vale – the world's largest iron-ore mining company and part owner of the Belo Monte Dam – is up to win the Public Eye Award, given annually to the corporation with the most dismal record in the world in terms of social and environmental responsibility.
- 27 October 2011 CSR Counsellor Fails in First Attempt to Resolve Dispute as Excellon Resources Abandons Dialogue Canada's Corporate Social Responsibility Counsellor has failed in her first attempt to resolve a conflict with a Canadian mining company operating beyond our borders.
- 27 October 2011 Canadian Unions Assist Mexican Workers With NAFTA Challenge: Electrical Workers Persecuted by Mexican Government The CLC and USW accompany the Mexican electrical workers union (SME) in submitting a complaint to the authority that administers the labour side deal of NAFTA.
- 23 September 2011 Protecting the Lives of Trade Unionists in Colombia Trade unionists in Colombia continue to be assassinated on an almost daily basis. In July, Ken Neumann, National Director for Canada, wrote to Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada asking for his intervention.
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16 August 2011
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Solidarity Centre
Building Solidarity with Guinea's Labour Movement
Quebec Steelworker Pierre Thibodeau was part of an international delegation that traveled to Guinea to work with union and civil society leaders.
- 18 August 2010 Los Mineros Wins Appeal at Grupo Mexico Mine RELEASE, 18 AUG 2010 – A Mexican court has ruled Los Mineros can continue its strike against Grupo Mexico and the forced removal of strikers was illegal.
- 2 October 2009 Stephen Lewis Foundation - A Dare to Remember Campaign The Stephen Lewis Foundation has launched an innovative campaign for raising funds for AIDS in Africa. Participants choose a dare and ask for sponsors. Any dare imaginable is permitted.
- 1 December 2004 World AIDS Day - Remember Africa December 1st is World AIDS Day. Here in Canada, we have a choice about how actively to be involved in the issues of AIDS.