20 November, 2007The union has been negotiating for four months without management seriously considering proposals.

16 November, 2007In honour of the upcoming IMF Central Committee meeting to be held in Brazil on November 28 and 29, Metal World's latest issue featuring metalworking in Brazil, has been printed in <a href="http://www.imfmetal.org/main/files/07111615174379/MW_portugues.pdf">Portuguese</a>.

17 September, 2010Autoworkers at Renault and Volvo in Brazil will vote on an offer from automakers that is less than their demands at a union meeting on September 17.

17 September, 2010The two week nationwide strike by motor industry workers has ended after the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) reached a negotiated settlement with employers.

17 September, 2010IMF's Japanese affiliate IMF-JC wants to improve the working conditions of precarious workers and makes a strong international commitment in its new Action Program. JAW plans to organize 26,000 workers in the automotive industries.

15 September, 2010A statement from a United Nations body confirming its desire to see the end of asbestos use worldwide is the 'death knoll' for a substance which claims one life every five minutes around the clock, the global union confederation ITUC has said.

8 March, 2010On March 8 and throughout this week, women around the world call for an end to discrimination and demand their rights at work in commemoration of International Women's Day.

22 March, 2010Wage agreement for the metal and electronics sector in Slovenia reached after trade unions refused to accept subsistence wages.

4 March, 2010130 jobs secured at Automotive Lighting in Reutlingen, Germany after a three week strike.

2 March, 2010International Metalworkers' Federation CIS regional office together with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung foundation organized a seminar in Almaty on consolidation and tackling problems of the trade union movement in Kazakhstan in response to the financial crisis.