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12 June, 2000The Central Committee for the year 2000 will see an increase in membership of over three-quarters of a million metalworkers.
GENEVA: The International Metalworkers' Federation will be holding its 2000 Central Committee meeting next week in Birmingham, UK, on June 21-22. Chairing the meeting will be Klaus Zwickel, president of the IMF, who is also president of the German metalworkers' union, IG Metall.
Following the Report of the Secretariat by the IMF general secretary, Marcello Malentacchi, in which he will highlight IMF activities in the past year, one of the more important discussion items on this year's agenda will be requests for affiliation to the IMF of nine metalworkers' trade unions from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cameroon, Gabon, Morocco, Montenegro, Russia, and the Republic of Srpska (capital Banja Luka). With acceptance of these new affiliations, the IMF will be taking in 831,367 new members, bringing its total membership to almost 23 million, and thus representing over one-third of the estimated 68 million metalworkers worldwide.
The IMF continues to maintain as one of its most important goals its support for affiliates - from both the developing and developed world - to organise unorganised metalworkers into trade unions.
Following the Report of the Secretariat by the IMF general secretary, Marcello Malentacchi, in which he will highlight IMF activities in the past year, one of the more important discussion items on this year's agenda will be requests for affiliation to the IMF of nine metalworkers' trade unions from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cameroon, Gabon, Morocco, Montenegro, Russia, and the Republic of Srpska (capital Banja Luka). With acceptance of these new affiliations, the IMF will be taking in 831,367 new members, bringing its total membership to almost 23 million, and thus representing over one-third of the estimated 68 million metalworkers worldwide.
The IMF continues to maintain as one of its most important goals its support for affiliates - from both the developing and developed world - to organise unorganised metalworkers into trade unions.