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REPORT
Region: Latin America and the Carribean
Theme: reindustrialization
In 2020, more than 150 union leaders from the base metal, energy and automotive sectors in Latin America and the Caribbean joined a series of seminars and working groups as part of a regional union empowerment project run by the Swedish organization Union to Union and IndustriALL.
In the second half of the year, they worked with academic experts to draw up a document setting out the main trends and possible scenarios for industry in the region over the coming years. They finalized the initial version of the document in December 2020 and will update it this year.
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2 March, 2021Unions and federations from Latin America s pulp and paper industry have agreed to fight together to safeguard their rights to collective bargaining and health and safety in the workplace, and to strengthen company-wide union networks.
Union leaders from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay met with regional and global representatives from IndustriALL to discuss the situation of paper and pulp workers in the region and come up with a work plan and timetable for the sector in 2021.
Kemal Özkan, IndustriALL s assistant general secretary, and Tom Grinter, director of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper, and rubber industries at IndustriAL, both addressed the meeting. Özkan spoke about how companies are constantly attacking workers rights, particularly in the context of the global pandemic.