Despite hunger strikes, marches and mine occupations by the highly organised and militant miners' federation, the number at work has inexorably shrunk to under 2,000, as one mine after another has closed.Today, even the mines that have survived are operating at maybe half their potential, and the giant Vinto smelting plant at a third.
While less than 10% of occupations were missing for fathers employed in management, business/financial operations, health diagnosing and treatment, and extraction (mining) occupations, 20% or more occupations were missing for food preparation and serving, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance, military, and construction occupations.
The Kayapó, and all the indigenous peoples of the Amazon are threatened; by mega-dams, illegal mining, logging, occupation by settlers and ranchers, and by companies and large corporations, by proposed legal reform and constitutional amendments which if allowed to go ahead will strip the tribes of their territorial rights, and endanger their livelihoods and cultures.
I appeal for protection for the hundreds of tribes in the Brazilian Amazon who are continually threatened by landowners, illegal mining, logging, occupation by settlers and ranchers, and by companies and large corporations which continue to trade in produce from illegally farmed crops on indigenous territory, by reckless development projects which threaten their lives and livelihoods.
The pact bars children from working in dangerous jobs like mining and in occupations like prostitution, pornography and drug trafficking.
To lose fundamental entitlements – paid holidays for part-time workers, high safety standards for those working in mining and hazardous occupations, the right to religious belief, gender equality and free expression?
Teachers were second only to physicians in reporting having felt stress, and when asked, "Does your supervisor always create an environment that is trusting and open, or not?" teachers answered "yes" less frequently than respondents in any other profession, including workers in sales, construction and mining, and service occupations.
Structural metal workers and what the BLS calls extractive occupations (mining and drilling) round out the list of the top five most dangerous occupations, though neither group dies on the job at even half the rate of timber cutters.
Bean-counting and data-mining are not glamorous occupations.
The use of incendiary devices by the police in the middle of the night to break up the 11-day occupation of mine property outraged many people, especially because most of the people who were burned were Buddhist monks.
