23 September, 2009The latest issue of Metal World, published online September 23, features the Thai labour movement's struggle for permanent work, shines a spotlight on the IMF Action Programme and profiles Sinter Metal striker Lale Balta in Turkey.
23 September, 2009Sinter Metal striker Lale Balta hopes their eventual victory will inspire workers throughout Turkey to stand up and defend their right to join a union.
23 September, 2009The IMF Congress in May 2009 adopted a new Action Programme that sets out the direction of our work for the next four years. It is an Action Programme for everyone. The global IMF family is committed to working towards our united goals. Organizing, collective bargaining, trade union rights, union networks and sustainable development are key areas of work.
2 October, 2009Four days before the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund officials meet with the Turkish Government, Global Unions met with Turkey's Minister for Labour, and lent their support to President Abdullah Gül's veto of a bill giving "Private Labour Offices" broad rights to place temporary workers in enterprises and warned of the dangers that precarious employment poses for society.
2 October, 2009Ainur Kurmanov, a prominent workers' rights activist, was viciously attacked and hospitalized.
