Belching Out the Devil (46 page)

(
March 21, 2006 joint letter to the National Union of Students from three UK trade unions, Amicus, T & G and GMB).

 

W
ithin days of the murder, the Company was alerted to the situation and gave its full support to all staff and employees of the Carepa facility, the vast majority of whom (employees and managers alike) were forced to relocate from the territory.
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The political situation in Colombia has become more complicated since the assessment requests were made to the ILO. In particular, the ILO has placed a priority on addressing the issue of impunity, resolving the inconsistencies between the ILO standards that the Colombian Government has ratified and existing labor and employment law, and assuring that the historic tripartite agreement reached in June 2006 under the auspices of the ILO is fully implemented. To address these political complexities, in particular to be certain that there is overall government, business and union support for the procedures and methods of the ILO assessment, the Director General of the ILO, has required that each of these constituencies sign off of the assessment protocol before it begins.

 

This is an independent investigation that will be conducted by the ILO, therefore we do not know the full
scope and process
of the assessment.
The ILO has
informed
the Company
that the
assessment will include a
review of current workers' rights
in
the workplace,
conditions of work, health and safety, labor relations and social security.