Victory for locked out workers at Rio Tinto mine in Boron
NB The agreement has now been ratified by 75% of the Borax workforce. May 16, 2010: The Los Angeles labour movement celebrated the announcement of a tentative settlement in the lockout of workers that had ravaged the small mining town of Boron, California. See http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/view/156658. Press release from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, 1188 [...]
Squeaky – but far from clean: London Calling on Rio Tinto’s AGM
London Calling picks over proceedings at Rio Tinto’s 2010 AGM. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10056.
Report on the London AGM of Rio Tinto, 15 April 2010
Introduction This was Jan du Plessis’ first AGM as Chairman, and he gave plenty of time for questions on the annual report. There were numerous questions on the convictions of Rio Tinto officials in China for bribery (see Rio accused of abandoning Stern Hu, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/16/2874320.htm), on the clash of timing of the Rio Tinto AGM [...]
US Borax workers bring struggle to Rio Tinto AGM in London
Rio Tinto in a race to the bottom Some 70 protestors from the UK, Netherlands, and Belgium demonstrated with locked-out members of the U.S. International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in London at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Rio Tinto. The global mining company maliciously locked 560 members of ILWU Local 30 off their [...]
Rio Tinto’s Borax workers speak out
Video news programme featuring Terri Judd, a locked out Boron miner, and Craig Merrilees, ILWU Communications Director. They appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss the lockout. The Boron mine is owned by Rio Tinto. See http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/26/labor_struggle_in_boron_union_workers.
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