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Ukraine

At the ‘Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Plant’ (KZRK), miners have been on strike underground for the third week in a row. The plant is one of biggest iron ore producer in Ukraine and consists of 4 mines : Hvardiyska, Oktiabrska, Rodina, and Ternivska. On September 3, 2020, about 30 miners from the Oktiabrska mine stayed underground, thereby suspending the operation of the mine. The lack of social dialogue is what made miners take such a desperate action. Workers are not satisfied with the unfair distribution of profit extracted from the exploitation of subsoil, which belongs to the people. Shortly afterwards, workers at three other mines joined the spontaneous strike. At one point, 393 workers were protesting at a depth of 1400 meters, and near...

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Colombia

The International Coordination of Metro Trade Unions unanimously support the struggle that the SINTRAMETRO comrades have been waging since its creation and which intensified during the Covid pandemic19 .

It is worth recalling the trade union closure of the TRICENTENARIO station on 18 July due to the lack of protective measures on the part of the metro management and the authorities after several...

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Chile

From the International Coordination of Metros Unions, we stand in solidarity with the Federation of Metro Unions of our sister country of Chile, in its just struggle against the dismissal of nearly 1,200 sub-contract workers in the different areas of the operation. These workers were already precarious before the pandemic, and their salaries were already low.

In addition to the health alarm...

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Mexico

We relay and support this text from the International Coordination of Metro Trade Unions :

The international coordination of metro unions affirms its solidarity and support for the struggle organised in Mexico by the National Union of Public Transport Workers (SNTSTP) to demand compliance with the regulations on general working conditions, a product of 50 years of trade union struggle. We...