Rio Tinto voted worst company linked to Olympics (7/23/2012) - IndustriALL Global Union | 23.07.2012 | Rio Tinto was awarded the gold medal on Friday 20 July in London, after being voted the worst company linked to the London Olympics. IndustriALL Global Union joined thousands of activists around the world to vote for Rio Tinto as the worst company linked to the London Olympics in the Greenwash awards, as the ...
Resilience and solidarity in labour’s summer victory against Rio Tinto (7/11/2012) - Rabble.ca | FRED WILSON In the heat of an Eastern Canadian summer there is a blast of fresh air for the trade union movement with the decisive win by the United Steelworkers in the six month lockout at the hands of global mining giant Rio Tinto in Alma Quebec. Last week the 780 USW members at the Rio Tinto aluminum ...
Unions Blast Rio Tinto Labour Practices (6/14/2012) - Labour organizations say Rio Tinto’s sponsorship taints Dragon Boat Festival CFTK TV Local News | John Crawford Several labour organizations are taking aim at what they call the “reprehensible labour practices” of Rio Tinto, which they say are tainting the upcoming Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival in Vancouver. The United Steelworkers, the Canadian Autoworkers and the B-C Federation ...
Thousands Worldwide Want Rio Tinto Off the Olympic Podium (5/30/2012) - Montreal – Over 13,000 people worldwide have sent letters to the International Olympic Committee to protest Rio Tinto’s role in the Olympics and request that the company be taken “Off the Podium” due to its illegal lockout of 780 workers in Alma, Quebec. The letters have been sent to IOC President Jacques Rogge and to Marcel Aubut, President of the ...
Tell the Canadian Olympic Committee that Rio Tinto Has No Place in the Olympic Games (5/23/2012) - ACTION ALERT – Today and tomorrow locked-out USW members, their families and supporters will be attending demonstrations in Alma and Quebec City. Join the rallies online and demand that the International Olympic Committee end its relationship with Rio Tinto. Mining giant Rio Tinto is the official Olympic supplier of the metal used to make the 2012 Olympic medals – yet ...
Campaign to get Rio Tinto Off the Podium Heats Up Ahead of International Olympic Committee Meetings in Quebec City May 23-25, 2012 (5/18/2012) - Mining giant Rio Tinto is the official Olympic supplier of the metal used to make the 2012 Olympic medals – yet it locked out 780 workers who are standing up against the company’s aggressive contracting-out demands at a highly profitable aluminum smelter in Alma, Quebec. Canada is hosting the International Olympic Committee from May 23-25–let’s deliver the message to the organizers loud ...
Massive Demonstration in Support of Rio Tinto’s Locked-Out Workers (3/31/2012) - Alma – Thousands of people marched through the streets of Alma in Lac Saint-Jean today to demand an end to the lock out and to fight for the preservation of jobs at the Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) smelter. Three months and one day after the multinational corporation’s reprehensible lock out of its workers, largely subsidized by public funds, citizens from the region, ...
Global Solidarity a Crucial Weapon Against Rio Tinto (3/14/2012) - AUSTRALIAN WORKERS’ UNION – Representatives of workers from Rio Tinto Alcan’s plant in Alma, Quebec Canada have met with with Australian steel workers as part of a global solidarity campaign against the multinational. United Steel Workers official Guy Farrell and USW Local 9490 President Marc Maltais, who works at Rio’s Alma smelter, were invited to Australia by The Australian Workers’ ...
Queensland Wharfies Stand With Locked-Out Canadian Workers (3/9/2012) - GREEN LEFT WEEKLY By Tom Mitchell, Brisbane The Maritime Union of Australia and other unions organised an action outside Rio Tinto’s headquarters on March 5 in solidarity with Quebec workers who have been locked out by Rio Tinto since December 30. Members of the United Steel Workers (USW) Local 9495 District 5 branch came to Australia to gain support for ...
