18 more mineworkers were trapped underground in Karaman province of Turkey when the area was flooded with water. Reports say that this was the third time the mine was flooded indic[...]

The WFTU denounces the policy of the mine-owners in Turkey to dismiss more than 5,000 workers countering the newly voted bill to improve the safety measures in the mines and the ri[...]

A delegation of miners from Soma, Turkey visited the WFTU HQ today, September 17th 2014. The delegation was composed by Tahir Cetin and Ercan Cetinyilmaz and they were accompanied [...]

Denouncing the massacre that murdered 301 coal mineworkers in the Soma Mine tragedy, the WFTU and its affiliate in Turkey, Nakliyat-Is organized today, 18th June 2014 in Istanbul a[...]

As a second step after the WFTU high-level mission to Turkey, a day after the Soma Mine tragedy, WFTU in coordination with is affiliated union Nakliyat-Is is organizing an Internat[...]

The Secretariat of the World Federation of Trade Unions has received with great sorrow the information for the tragedy that cost the lives of at least 200 mineworkers and injured m[...]

In its recent publication in the framework of the forthcoming “High Altitude Mining Congress” that will take place in Santiago, Chile on 29-31 August, the TUI Metal and[...]