25 March, 2008Feature article examines the challenges confronted by workers in Belarus, special report looks at gender equality and participation of women in trade union work in Latin America, and IMF profiles Annie Labaj, director of the CAW international department.
GLOBAL: In Belarus, IMF affiliate REPAM is confronted with a multitude of problems, one of which is precarious employment in the form of universal short-term contracts. This issue's feature, Belarus: A Nation on a Contractual Leash, takes a close-up and personal look at how the Belarusian government uses these contracts to control workers.
Metal World's special report focuses on efforts in Latin America to improve gender equality for women at work and increase their participation in trade unions. In countries like Brazil and the Dominican Republic, there have been important cultural changes in trade union thinking that have opened the way for women to take on leadership positions. However, this has yet to take place in the rest of the continent.
Annie Labaj, who started out on the assembly line at a General Motors plant in Oshawa in 1973, was appointed Director of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) International Department in September 2007. In this issue of Metal World, Annie explains how education plays a vital role in all aspects of successful trade union work.
Metal World also includes all the latest news and photos from the IMF and its affiliates around the world.
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