15 May, 2008Three Finnish IMF affiliates believe Nokia should be the first Finnish company to sign an International Framework Agreement to secure basic rights for Nokia's employees around the globe.
22 August, 200810,000 union members in the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia kick off latest round of IMF campaign actions against precarious work.
12 August, 2008Progress for workers falls short of China's 2001 pledge to improve labour rights, activists still face forced-labour camps, detention without trial, and state executions.
16 June, 2008Three Italian metalworker unions to hold one hour strike on June 17 in support of implementing a new law on health and safety at work.
10 June, 2008Workers and unions were shocked on January 15 when Nokia management announced it would close its plant in Bochum, Germany by the end of June. Nokia had received nearly 100 million euros in government subsidies for the plant and was bound by law to guarantee jobs until December 31, 2007. Fourteen days later, despite it turning a sizable profit, Nokia declared the plant would close.
10 June, 2008Korean Metal Workers' Union expresses alarm at high level of fatalities in shipbuilding. IMF Shipbuilding Action Group to raise issue at the XVIII ILO World Congress on Safety and Health at Work.
9 June, 2008The latest issue of Metal World features a report on the impact of the closure of the Nokia plant in Bochum, Germany. An analysis of how unions united to change Australia's labour laws is also presented and Anne Lewis, activist filmmaker, discusses the art of storytelling and effective labour films.
