28 February, 2001Leo Gerard has become the seventh international president of the 700,000-member steelworkers' union.

27 February, 2001The Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union is staging a demonstration in Sydney in protest at heavy-handed police repression of autoworkers in Korea.

27 November, 2000Wars have had devastating effects on workers and populations in general.

20 November, 2000As U.S. car company confirms its decision to shut down operations in Dagenham, 8,500 workers cast their votes.

19 November, 2000Atlas Copco (India) union had requested the intervention of the IMF and Swedish Metalworkers with the company's head office.

19 November, 2000As the widespread use of forced labour continues, the ILO takes unprecedented action by invoking Article 33 of its Constitution.

16 November, 2000Labour court rules in favour of workers' wage demands.

15 November, 2000Kjell Björndalen replaces Max Baehring as head of the IMF Shipbuilding Department.

15 November, 2000The international trade union movement has lost a friend and colleague, Rüdiger Sielaff, of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Germany.

14 November, 2000Max Baehring has been nominated as a new member of the IMF Executive Committee.