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11 May 2012
RTA Lockout at Alma Quebec - Help Get Rio Tinto Off the Olympic Podium!
Rio Tinto's anti-worker and environmentally damaging practices betray the Olympic spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.
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16 April 2012
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Media Release
Locked Out Workers Launch International Campaign to Get Rio Tinto ‘OFF the Olympic Podium’
The United Steelworkers, is calling for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to drop multinational resource firm Rio Tinto as an official supplier of the 2012 London Games, because the company's treatment of its own workers does not live up to the Olympic spirit.
- 16 April 2012 | Winnipeg Free Press Locked out Rio Tinto Workers in London to Denounce Mining Giant's Olympic Role Steelworkers representing locked out Rio Tinto Alcan workers in Quebec were in London on Monday to denounce the mining giant's participation in the upcoming Olympic Games.