18 May, 2010IMF working group debates guidelines for establishing trade union networks in transnational corporations.

18 May, 2010At an OECD Steel Committee meeting in Paris in May, IMF highlights abuses by giant mining companies and calls for a sustainable future.

18 May, 2010Green manufacturing, job creation, clean energy, and environmental and occupational health and safety issues were subjects for debate at the BlueGreen Alliance's Good Jobs, Green Jobs national conference in the U.S. in May

1 June, 2010Work pressures at Foxconn, the world's biggest manufacturer of electronics components and the main supplier to Apple, have driven workers to commit suicide. The company, instead of improving working conditions, forces workers to give promises not to harm themselves.

31 May, 2010After three days of strike and local and international solidarity action, workers at a Johnson Controls plant (Resureccion) in Puebla, Mexico won recognition of freedom of association and agreement on an improved profit sharing payment.

21 July, 2010IMF delegation meet with Industry and Labour Ministers to discuss the need for improving the health, safety and rights of workers in the Chittagong shipbreaking yards, where workers currently toil under intolerable conditions.

20 July, 2010Workers strike in protest of Fiat's unfair dismissal of four workers, sacked for fighting against company proposals including threats of only investing in production if workers concede on conditions and rights.

16 July, 2010Gadani shipbreaking workers strike for two days in July after employers renege a promise to negotiate better working conditions; negotiations have resumed and a court hearing is scheduled for July 21.

28 June, 2010Delegates from around the world gathered at the second World Congress of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to promote peace, non-violence and gender equality around the globe. At the conclusion of the Congress delegates elected their first female General Secretary, Sharan Burrow.

28 June, 2010Unions in North America unite in a strategy to build solidarity with trade unions struggling for autonomy in Mexico.