From the start, Rio Tinto's success was at the expense of working people. At its Madagascar Minerals operation, there were double the numbers of contract workers as permanent staff as of early 2014. Mining giant Rio Tinto has been fined for a breach of environmental regulations while releasing water from its Hail Creek mine during recent floods. Even as the anger and resentment against the mining company are raw, we must make use of this hour to redraw the boundaries of our ideas of Indigenous environmental justice. The work will be conducted in close cooperation with the Environment, Communities and Land Acquisition teams. Rio Tinto adds a strategy and development role to the executive committee. MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rio Tinto has added a new role to its executive committee as it considers the next phase of its transformation to reinforce the company’s commitment to strategy, technology and climate change in a new era.

Rio Tinto, which has a market value of US$ 90 billion, is increasingly turning to contract and subcontracted workers to cut costs. Reporting to the Senior Environmental Adviser, he/she will provide support for the implementation of Rio Tinto Environmental standards, Serbian and EU regulation, focusing primarily on implementation and maintenance field activities, related to environment and community issues. Rio Tinto was founded in 1873 to mine the Rio Tinto copper deposit in the Spanish province of Andalusia. Rio Tinto’s actions speak of a continuing and systematic erasure of Indigenous identities that lie at the heart of the settler-colonialism and the capitalist logic on which the State has been founded. It was floated on the London stock exchange, funded by English capitalists and Deutsche National Bank, a German bank. In Australia, Rio Tinto has sacked fulltime workers on mass but kept on casual or contract workers at the Hail Creek mine in Queensland.