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A unique happenstance followed an ICEM workshop on Contract and Agency Labour (CAL) in Guinea recently: the Industrial Relations manager of Russian bauxite and steel producer RUSAL was expelled from the country following revelations at the conference of the company’s horrid labour practices in Guinea. Mineworkers in Guinea, backed by leaders of the trade union federations, provided vivid evidence on working conditions, including child labour, at Compagnie des Bauxite de Kindla, RUSAL’s joint venture bauxite mining concern with the government. The testimony resulted in the government, led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, to expel Anatoly Pantchenko from Guinea. Trade unionists told how the RUSAL manager had organized a culture of outsourcing at the mine and at RUSAL’s wholly-owned Friguia alumina smelting plant. The company... [read full story]
A brilliant exposé of the oil industry uncovers the shocking human cost of fuel, says Peter Preston Plunder, Rot, Fear, Greed and Desire. Laconic chapter headings tell the story. This brilliant, dismaying book by a reporter who...
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Early next year, a million Northern Rock savers and up to 200,000 borrowers will get a letter telling them their accounts will in future be with the "good bank" being split from the nationalised lender. The other 300,000...
