20 October, 2009After a trade union delegation was refused entry to Gerdau's Aza factory, the Gerdau Global Workers' Committee protested outside the plant and handed in a letter to management repudiating the company's stance.

20 October, 2009Lakshmi Mittal, owner of ArcelorMittal, praises flexible role of unions in responding to the global financial crisis.

14 November, 2009IMF Affiliates from Asia, Europe and Latin America, meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, find commonalities in the experiences of migrant workers in the different continents and agree on strategies to organize migrant workers and protect their rights.

26 October, 2009SATU set to rejoin the Swaziland Federations of Trade Unions.

4 November, 2009VW Group Board of Management, International Metalworkers' Federation and VW Global Group Works Council sign Global Charter on Labour Relations.

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3 November, 2009Child labourer in the Bangladeshi shipbuilding industry the subject of the labour photo of the year.

3 November, 2009Italian metalworkers divided over the signing of a national agreement.

3 November, 2009November 15, 2009 is the deadline to apply for a PhD scholarship at the ICDD.

21 September, 2009Industrial GUFs, ITGLWF, ICEM, IMF, demand jobs focus from this week's G20 Meeting