Unions form global arrangement for DuPont workers

Brussels - Trade unionists from 8 countries, gathering today in Brussels, established the ICEM Global Union Network of DuPont workers. The unions at this inaugural meeting represent workers from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.

Set up under the auspices of the ICEM, the network will be administered by the United Steel Workers (USW), ICEM's largest affiliate in North America. The network is the ICEM's ninth global company network. ICEM Global Company Networks link, on a worldwide basis, workers and their representatives working for the same multinational company.

During the initial meeting, the combined union representatives agreed ona number of issues that need to be addressed:

• the out-sourcing of DuPont's human resource functions;
• growing concern about worker and community exposure to PFOA (C8) from Teflon-related chemicals;
• lack of full company reporting of accidents;
• company support of union-busting in the United States, and
• the lack of a business strategy or an adequate response for dealing with redundancies in Europe at DuPont's performance coating business;

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