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On 29 October the IndustriALL Global website posted the following notice: ‘IndustriALL and its Algerian affiliate, the Syndicat National Autonome des Travailleurs de L’électricité et du Gaz (SNATEG), have submitted the complaint after GE failed to address human rights violations linked to its multi billion-dollar partnership with Algeria’s state-owned energy company, Sonelgaz.’ For the global union federation, ‘General Electric is directly linked to serious human rights violations in Algeria (…)’ and has failed to implement due diligence as regards its activities in the country’. Both GE’s partner company and its owner, the Algerian State have been regularly singled out, especially by the ILO, for leading anti-union policies (refusal for enrolment, disbandment, imprisonment), against ‘independent’ trade unions, i.e. non-affiliated with the UGTA (The General Union of Algerian Workers- the only union organization to be recognized by the public authorities). According to the press statement, ‘GE’s partnership with Sonelgaz includes a 20-year services deal valued at more than US$3 billion and a US$2.7 billion deal to supply large gas turbines and related technology to nine power plants in the country. GE has multiple joint ventures with Sonelgaz and delivers management training programs for Sonelgaz executives.’
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