28 March, 2011ICEM affiliate Petrol-İş seeks to pre-empt an auto-parts rubber manufacturer from challenging a majority of workers in their right to collective bargaining. Standard Profil, a maker of rubber weather-sealing devices, met a public campaign last week by the union in the northern Anatolian city of Düzce, where the company operates its biggest factory.
3 June, 2010Workers at a Honda auto parts factory in China have returned to work with a 24 per cent wage increase, after taking strike action that shut down Honda assembly plants to protest low wages.
3 June, 2010ILO Director-General in his annual report at the International Labour Conference warns that pressure from financial markets can jeopardize recovery: domestic workers, HIV/AIDS, employment and rights at work all on the Conference agenda.
7 June, 2010IMF alarmed by reports that federal and state forces have moved into Cananea on Sunday night to execute arrest warrants against the union leaders of the Mexican Miners' Union.
4 June, 2010Responding to submissions made to him by IMF and IUF, the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights asks for the assistance of the ILO to better understand the impact of precarious work on human rights.
4 June, 2010In a time of crisis, tensions over the harmonization of status between manual and non-manual workers are increasing.
3 June, 2010Tenaris Workers' World Council got a minute of silence onto the company's June 2 AGM agenda, in remembrance of the death of Argentinean worker Rodrigo Lopez Amarilla, while also demanding a separate meeting with management to discuss Tenaris' global health and safety policy.
3 June, 2010British unions and Oxfam launch contest for short films as part of the Robin Hood Tax campaign, as interest builds in the fourth annual Geneva Labour Film Shorts Festival taking place on June 15.
18 May, 2010Aiming for a trade agreement that breaks with the past, trade union leaders call on governments to consult and work openly during talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement.
17 May, 2010In solidarity with Canadian workers on strike against demands by Vale for deep concessions in their contract, a Liberian union is urging its government to deny the company a rail passage through Liberia from an ore deposit in Guinea to the coast.
