6 July, 2009The latest issue of Metal World, published online July 6, reports on highlights of the 32nd IMF World Congress in Gothenburg, provides an overview of the global crisis and restructuring in the automotive industry and profiles Jyrki Raina, the new IMF General Secretary.
GLOBAL: Following the IMF World Congress held in Gothenburg May 24 to May 28, Metal World reports on the key debates carried out by 800 trade union delegates from the unions all over the world. In addition to the coverage in Metal World, visit the IMF Congress website which contains lots of reports and all the texts, declarations and resolutions adopted by the IMF Congress.
One of the first branches severely hit by the current financial and economic global crisis is the automotive sector. This issue of Metal World includes a Special report on the global crisis in the automotive industry which gives you update information on the situation in the industry, repercussions of the crisis and related restructuring so far. The report also examines measures taken by the governments in response to the crisis and as well as trade union responses.
The back page profile features the newly elected IMF General Secretary Jyrki Raina who talks about lessons from the past for unions today and his ambition to use modern technologies more intensively in IMF's daily work to render IMF more transparent, open and accessible to trade unionists and workers of the world.
The magazine can be accessed from our main page as well as here.