GLOBAL unions united in protest today as they developed plans to take on multinational companies Tenaris and Ternium as their billionaire boss was charged with bribery.
Paolo Rocca is being investigated for his involvement over allegations of payments made to an Argentinian government official through the company in 2008.
Tenaris, a leading supplier of tubes to the energy industry, gave "its full support for its chairman and CEO” soon after the news broke.
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance



