How profits are maximized at the expense of workers’ lives in South Africa
In workplaces across South Africa, workers get sick and injured at their jobs. This has only gotten worse throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
ArcelorMittal is ‘slowly becoming a burial site’
After the deaths of three employees who got trapped in a control room, workers allege that management frequently coerces them to bypass health and safety procedures
Unions demands investigation after death of three workers following explosion at ArcelorMittal plant in South Africa
For 12 hours after the incident, the management of ArcelorMittal, the largest steel producer on the African continent, did not bring in specialists, but used about 10 of its ordinary employees to conduct the search and rescue operation, NUMSA reported
Working class groups protest layoffs by ArcelorMittal in Luxembourg
The steel corporation ArcelorMittal announced that it would lay off up to 570 employees. The company is citing COVID-19 but critics say ‘redundancies’ were planned much before
Italian workers go on strike against ArcelorMittal
In Taranto, Italy, hundreds of workers at the Ilva steel plant went on a general strike on Friday, November 30.
With layoffs looming, NUMSA to engage ArcelorMittal management in discussions next week
ArcelorMittal South Africa had earlier announced its plan to retrench more than 2,000 of its 8,769 employees in South Africa. NUMSA has accused the company of taking this decision as a retribution against workers who went on strike in March.
Workers of ArcelorMittal South Africa demonstrate before the Indian High Commission
Led by the NUMSA, workers of the Indian-owned corporation, have been on strike since March 12 against the company’s misuse of a loophole in the law to avoid making eligible workers permanent
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