8 September, 2008The latest issue of Metal World features a look at organising precarious workers in Indonesia's Export Processing Zones, a report on leveraged buyouts in the metal sector and an interview with Solidarność's Stefan Przybyszewski.
GLOBAL: Behind the heavily guarded Export Processing Zones of Indonesia's Batam Island contracted and outsourced workers are joining unions, organising fellow employees, and changing the rules of hire. Indonesian metalworker unions FSPMI and Lomenik have adopted a national strategy to organise EPZ workers and have met much success where most unions have failed. In this issue of Metal World, the feature, "Organising Precarious Workers in Indonesia", gives us insight into the little known lives of EPZ workers and provides strategies that can be applied by unions throughout the world.
Metal World's special report, "Leveraged Buyouts in the Metal Sector", provides an in-depth analysis on how metalworkers, already challenged by restructuring in an increasingly global market, face additional problems when private equity firms use leveraged buyouts to make quick and excessive profits, often at the expense of workers.
As a long standing member of Solidarność, Stefan Przybyszewski, this issue's profile, is no stranger to trade union struggles. These days he is focused on the fight for equal rights for all workers, whether permanently or temporarily employed.
Metal World also includes all the latest news and photos from the IMF and its affiliates around the world.
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