3 November, 2009Child labourer in the Bangladeshi shipbuilding industry the subject of the labour photo of the year.

3 November, 2009Italian metalworkers divided over the signing of a national agreement.

3 November, 2009November 15, 2009 is the deadline to apply for a PhD scholarship at the ICDD.

3 November, 2009With continuous shift from manual to non-manual work, unions should look to organizing non-manual workers more effectively.

3 November, 2009Members of the CGT were held for four hours by U.S. immigration officials for taking part in protesting the closure of a Molex plant in Villemur-sur-Tarn, France.

3 November, 2009Tenaris Workers' World Council seeks recognition from management and plans a global week of action in the week of November 23, 2009.

19 October, 2009AMWU bargaining campaign at Cochlear gets boost from new labour laws.

13 October, 2009On September 25, VW works council together with IG Metall held a seminar for the unions at Kaluga plant in Russia and signed an Agreement on Cooperation.

12 October, 2009250,000 Italian metalworkers strike for decent jobs, employment and a national collective agreement.

30 October, 2009Canadian and Brazilian workers at global mining company Vale are fighting for decent wages, conditions and a FAIR DEAL. The IMF and ICEM are joining forces with the United Steelworkers (USW) in a global campaign to prevent Brazilian mining giant Vale from eroding working conditions and denying basic labour rights at Vale operations worldwide.