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Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. Chief Executive Officer Bill Doyle, who fended off BHP Billiton Ltd.’s hostile takeover bid for the Canadian fertilizer producer only to later lose a price war with a Russian rival, will step down after almost 15 years.
He will be replaced in July by Jochen Tilk, the former CEO of Inmet Mining Corp., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based Potash Corp. said yesterday in a statement. Doyle, 63, will stay on through June 2015 as an adviser to the company where he’s worked for 27 years.
Doyle is also chairman of Canpotex Ltd., the marketing joint venture that controls the overseas exports of the three largest North American potash producers, including Potash Corp. A staunch defender of the price-supporting arrangement, in October he called Uralkali’s move self-destructive and “probably the single dumbest thing that I’ve ever seen.”
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Ever Luis Marin Rolong is one of the 73 Colombian labor activists have been executed in the three years since the Labor Action Plan promised to protect unionists from such killings.Ever Luis Marín Rolong kicked off a macabre annual body count in January when he became 2014′s first labor activist assassinated in one of the most dangerous places in the world to be one: Colombia.
Six bullets ripped through the 46-year-old’s body as he stepped off a bus for his afternoon shift at a brewery in the northern Colombian city of Soledad. … Like many others, Marín Rolong’s death underscores what labor rights groups say is a defect of free trade agreements in general: They have clear enforcement mechanisms to deal with trade violations, but when it comes to labor rights enforcement, these pacts lack teeth.
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More than 400 workers at the Halifax port have ratified a new collective agreement.
Signed at the beginning of April, the deal covers approximately 300 longshoremen, foremen and walking bosses, as well as about 70 checkers and 70 gear repair men working at the Port of Halifax, who had been without a contract since Dec. 31, 2013.
Both the federal labour ministry, the Halifax Employers Association and the Halifax Longshoremen’s Association (ILA Local 269) ratified the contract with the help of the federal mediation and conciliation service, which provides dispute resolution and dispute prevention assistance to trade unions and employers. The Halifax Freight and Steamship Checkers Union and the Halifax Gear Repair and Maintenance Men were also involved.
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