Nike workers win overtime pay

Workers at Nike's PT Nikomas plant in Indonesia celebrated today after a subcontractor for the US footwear giant agreed to pay staff $1 million (£650,000) in compensation for unpaid overtime.

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Nike is a Global Compact participant since 2000/07/26

USW Affiliate in Québec Locked Out by Rio Tinto at Aluminium Plant

Workers employed by Rio Tinto Alcan, the global mining giant’s aluminium producer, were locked off their jobs in the Canadian province of Québec on 1 January in a dispute centering on the company’s ceaseless subcontracting. Some 780 metalworkers, represented by Syndicat des Métallos d’Alma Local 9490, affiliated to the United Steelworkers (USW), were thrown off their jobs at contract expiration at one of the company’s most modern plants, the Alma, Saguenay-lac-Saint-Jean region, Québec smelter.

More on International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) press release.

Alcan is part of Rio Tinto, a Global Compact participant since 2000/07/26.

Brazil: retailer Zara fined for slave conditions

"Brazilian prosecutors say they have reached an settlement with Spanish retail chain Zara that sharply reduces the fine imposed after investigators found slave-like conditions at factories supplying the brand."

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Zara is part of Spanish group Inditex, Industrias de Diseno Textil, S.A., a Global Compact participant since 2001/09/19.

Sick miners want Anglo American to pay up

"Mponco and hundreds of other former mineworkers who now want mining giant Anglo American to pay up for exposing them to dangerous dust levels.

The London-listed firm's South African subsidiary is being sued on two continents in cases that could run into millions of rands in damages."

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Anglo American is a Global Compact participant since 2004/07/27
Anglo American plc was a 2010 Gold Contributor of the Foundation for the Global Compact

Coca-Cola accused of propping up notorious Swaziland dictator

"The multibillion dollar beverage company owns a concentrate-manufacturing plant in Swaziland, an impoverished kingdom ruled by Africa's last absolute monarch, Mswati III.

The king has travelled to Coca-Cola's headquarters in Atlanta in the US, much to the disgust of Swazi political activists who blame him for human rights abuses and looting the nation's wealth."

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The Coca-Cola Company is a Global Compact participant since 2006/03/14

Dutch pension fund puts Walmart, PetroChina on investment blacklist

Civil service pension fund ABP has put American supermarket chain Walmart and oil giant PetroChina on its investment blacklist. (...) PetroChina is on the blacklist because of ‘the activities of its parent company CNPC in Sudan and Burma’, the statement said.

More on Dutch News.nl

PetroChina is a Global Compact participant since 2007/08/01.

More on ABP website (Dutch)

Also read the discussion on the PetroChina case on the Global Compact website

Former Siemens Executives Are Charged With Bribery

"Eight former executives and contractors of Siemens were charged on Tuesday with criminal bribery in the case, the department said."

More on the New York Times.

Siemens is a Global Compact participant since 26-11-2003