30 September, 2010IMF German affiliate, IG Metall recommends members accept a new agreement for a 3.6 per cent pay rise and equal pay for contract workers after negotiations with employers in the steel sector. The agreement reached on September 29 came after the union staged three days of warning strikes.
30 September, 2010European metalworkers joined millions of workers and trade unions from other sectors across Europe on September 29 to respond en masse to the European Trade Union Confederation's call to struggle against the austerity measures pursued by European governments
5 October, 2010IMF Regional Representative, Steve Nhlapo was amongst the hundred delegates from around the globe that met in Harare at the end of September 2010 to discuss the future of the labour movement in the country and receive the report of the ILO Commission of Inquiry on Zimbabwe.
23 September, 2010Workers protest, hold minute of silence in Spain, Colombia, Canada, Chile and Brazil after a worker died on September 5 at a Gerdau plant in Spain.
22 September, 2010Metalicy holds traditional sports games on September 1 to 5, 2010 under the motto "Mobilizing globally against precarious work".
22 September, 2010PRO-GE to demand wage increases and reductions in working time in the forthcoming round of collective bargaining for 165,000 workers in the metal sector.
22 September, 201085,000 German steel workers and members of IMF affiliate IG Metall start warning strikes in support of their collective bargaining demands for a six per cent wage increase and equal treatment of agency workers.
22 September, 2010Prominent global network of legal experts calls on Mexican Supreme Court to respect mineworkers' union autonomy.
21 September, 2010Meeting in Gothenburg, union members of the SKF World Union Committee reported that measures negotiated with management enabled redundancies to be avoided through the economic crisis.
20 September, 2010Unite outlines 10-point plan to revive British manufacturing at the TUC Congress on September 15, 2010.