13 October, 2002Since April, 368 workers remain suspended from their jobs after conducting a legal strike.

10 October, 2002After the trade unions' unified stance against earlier government attempts to bring in anti-social reforms, a viable social security system has now been adopted.

9 October, 2002Following the Italian automaker's announcement of massive job cuts, Fiat workers will down tools.

30 September, 2002The agreement, still to be ratified by the CAW membership, provides a more secure future for workers.

24 September, 2002New collective agreement provides VW workers with comparable wage hikes as for the overall metal and engineering industry.

24 September, 2002The IMF-affiliated AMWU has won a provisional injunction by the Federal Court against the Australian subsidiary of Trane.

23 September, 2002Union calls for ceiling at 30 per cent in any workplace.

22 September, 2002The general secretary-elect of Amicus-AEEU says "right to strike is a fundamental human right."

19 September, 2002Thousands protest government's attempt to curtail workers' and trade union rights.

19 December, 2002Workers in the majority of European countries abandoned their trade unions in the 1990s. For the Finnish Metalworkers' Union the situation has been the opposite. The deep recession and mass unemployment at the start of the decade was followed by a unique increase in members, especially among young metalworkers. Metal World visited the northern outpost of Oulu, Finland's Silicon Valley.