Remembering Vale’s Victims in Brumadinho
January 2022 marks three years since the collapse of Vale’s dam in Brumadinho. This preventable disaster claimed the lives of 272 victims. Families who lost their loved ones are still fighting to see justice after what was done – while Vale continues to...
Brumadinho: 3 years on, families of outsourced workers who died still struggle for compensation
By Gabriela Sarmet The outsourcing of workers imposed by the mining sector has worsened after the “Labour Reform” of Temer and Bolsonaro. Today, more than 50% of workers in the sector are outsourced. This represents fewer rights, more precarious work and...
BHP cuts and runs from London, ‘not with a bang, but a whimper’
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network Two of us from London Mining Network were at the sparsely-attended BHP Group plc ‘Scheme Meeting’ in London and the Extraordinary General Meeting which immediately followed it today. The ‘Scheme...