Activists came to London from Indonesia, California, Michigan and Utah for the Rio Tinto AGM on 14 April. Watch this fifteen minute video to find out about their complaints against the company, why they wanted …
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Rio Tinto – the movie
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 …
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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.…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Labour Struggle Against Rio Tinto in Boron
Union Workers in California Town Locked Out by Mining Giant Rio Tinto After Stalled Contract Talks
The California mining town of Boron is the site of the second-largest borax mine in the world. A labour …
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Rio Tinto locks out US workers to break union
Labour War in the Mojave
The biggest hole in California, with the exception of the current state budget, is Rio Tinto’s huge open-pit mine at the town of Boron, near Edwards Air Force Base, eighty …
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Labour groups rally around locked out Rio Tinto borax miners
The 600 workers were shut out of the world’s second largest borax mine on January 31 after a five month contract dispute with Rio Tinto.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9945.…
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Rio Tinto in dispute with Borax workers in California
ICEM Pledges Support to Locked-Out Rio Tinto Workers in US State of California
The Geneva, Switzerland-based International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine, and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM) announces that it gives its unequivocal support to …
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At It Again: Rio Tinto Tries Busting California Miners’ Union
Regardless of whether it’s true or not, Rio Tinto always seems to know what to say. Rio Tinto boasts to the public, gullible politicians and job hopefuls in Michigan that the company is doing well …
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