23 April, 2010Corporate-led globalization has resulted in a serious deterioration of rights, income, working conditions and power for working people, posing an enormous challenge for trade unions.
The International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) represents the collective interests of 25 million metalworkers from more than 200 unions in 100 countries. Through solidarity across national boundaries we seek to improve metalworkers' wages, working and living conditions and to ensure that workers' rights are respected.
We want to ensure that working people share in the wealth generated through sustainable economic growth. We do this by organizing workers, building strong national unions, strengthening collective bargaining, defending workers' rights, building a counterweight to the power of transnational corporations and fighting for sustainable trade, development and employment.
Solidarity in action
Read about the work of the IMF in action, as showcased in our case studies:
- Global action against precarious work
- Asking for justice in Mexico!
- Reducing shipbreaking hazards in India
- Release Korean Unionists!
- Organizing women workers in Indonesia
- Building sustainable unions in Africa