25 February, 2009The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union renewed the IMF's campaign for a global ban on asbestos at the opening of a new Asbestos Disease and Research Institute.
13 March, 2009Workers around the world are pushing Tenaris to negotiate an International Framework Agreement.
9 April, 2009Workers continue their protests demanding the Bulgarian government to extend its support and commitment to the Kremikovtzi plant.
9 April, 2009New shipbreaking union tests its might as more than 20,000 workers in Alang down tools to protest wage cuts.
6 April, 2009History of the IMF over the last twenty years and challenges faced by the Swedish unions trying to improve their organising efforts are described in the latest issue of Metal World.
25 March, 2009Metalworkers in Japan are pushing back against employer attempts to pass the cost of the global financial crisis on to workers.
20 March, 2009The union says there is an urgent need for a law against corporate homicide that can be used to punish companies that put their workers' lives in danger by not establishing adequate health and safety at work systems.
20 February, 2009Leaders from IMF affiliates around the world met in Geneva, Switzerland on February 19 for an extraordinary meeting of the IMF Executive Committee to prepare for the 32nd IMF World Congress.
24 April, 2009In Mexico, the country's largest mining company, Grupo México, and the Mexican government, first under President Vicente Fox, and now under President Felipe Calderón, have systematically and repeatedly violated Mexican law and international standards to crush the National Miners' and Metalworkers' Union of Mexico (SNTMMSRM). IMF affiliates around the world are mobilising and taking action in defence of basic labour rights and union autonomy in Mexico.
