25 February, 2010The International Metalworkers' Federation's Working Party on Trade, Employment and Development discusses the social and economic impacts of Free Trade Agreements and their potential challenge to solidarity.
29 January, 2010Shipbreaking workers' union calls on employers and port authority to supply drinking water at shipbreaking sites in Mumbai, India.
25 January, 2010Defending coke-chemical workers' protests against pay rates well below minimum wage levels and concerns about occupational cancer.
9 February, 2010Instead of protecting labour rights prosecutor's office clings to the absurd 'extremist' charges against ITUA. District court approves this anti-union and anti-labour attitude, as the February 3 decision clearly suggests.
7 March, 2012Union leaders in India are building a powerful force for change in some of India's most vulnerable societies and uniting the union movement in the process.
7 March, 2012The Executive Board of the German Group MAN SE, representatives of the MAN SE Works Council and the IMF have signed an International Framework Agreement. The agreement guarantees a single set of working standards for all employees at all company sites worldwide.
6 March, 2012Over fifty members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) marched to the Mexican embassy in Pretoria on 29 February in support of the international campaign calling for the Mexican government to respect government to respect worker, union and human rights.
27 March, 2012The National Miners' and Metalworkers' Union, which represents workers at the plant, says the plant closure is "really an attack on independent and democratic trade unionism".
26 March, 2012Six power loom workers were arrested on March 21 and a total of 12 workers were charged with extortion. All of them are members of Al Etehad Mazdoor Union, which is affiliated to the IMF affiliate National Trade Union Federation (NTUF) Pakistan.
