26 August, 2009Union communicators from different parts of the world will meet at the first joint EMF-IMF Communicators' Forum in Frankfurt to discuss union campaigns, innovative communication strategies and new media techniques.
22 July, 2009The situation for some 700 workers on strike at Toshiba Indonesia grows worse each day, but together we can win this fight for basic labour rights and working conditions at Toshiba locations worldwide. The International Metalworkers' Federation and the 25 million metalworkers we represent joins Toshiba Indonesia workers on strike in demanding that the company negotiate in good faith with FSPMI, pay all wages owed workers since April, restore health care coverage for workers on strike and reinstate all fired workers without sanction.
3 August, 2009The workshop on Free Trade Agreements analysed the consequences and impact of free trade on employment and labour rights. The IMF also organised workshops on this issue in Argentina and Brazil.
30 July, 2009Within the framework of the IMF project to strengthen its trade union affiliates in Chile, a week of workshops focused on collective bargaining and the current labour and trade union situation of the country's workers.
29 July, 2009IMF calls on affiliates to send letters of solidarity to striking Steelworkers at Vale Inco in Canada.
6 August, 2009Workers demonstrate in Turkey's Taksim Square denouncing the decision of the court arguing, "Justice delayed is Justice denied!"
6 August, 2009Following the tentative agreement reached this morning between the KMWU and Ssangyong Motor, police are interrogating and jailing sit-in strikers rather than transporting them to local hospitals.
20 August, 2009A trade union representing shipbreaking workers calls on authorities to enforce health and safety after six workers die in Alang on August 4, 2009.
