19 noviembre, 2002The UK union calls the deal a "benchmark for British industry".

18 noviembre, 2002A year after the IMF Congress march for global social justice, in Sydney, Australians continue fight for fair trade, not free trade.

5 noviembre, 2002Walkout called off as Korean government announces it will delay legislation dealing with the five-day workweek.

3 noviembre, 2002In advance of the 2005 merger between the metalworkers and the non-manual private sector union, they conduct joint negotiations with the employers.

28 octubre, 2002The IMF urges the Turkish government to use its influence to ensure the dispute is brought to a satisfactory conclusion.

22 octubre, 2002The IMF welcomes the initiative to coordinate the trade unions' role at the World Social Forum.

21 abril, 2011The international labour movement marked the 5th anniversary of the deaths of Mario Alberto Castillo Rodríguez and Héctor Álvarez Gómez with a march in Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico and the submission of new evidence to the ILO highlighting the issue of violence against members of the SNTMMSRM. The murders of Rodríguez and Gómez, named in the ILO complaint (no. 2478), remain unsolved.

20 abril, 2011To assist the two unions organizing metalworkers in Angola and strengthen their closer cooperation and mutual support, the IMF held a workshop in Luanda in April 2011, that was attended by union leadership and shop stewards drawn from 12 companies in the metal, chemical, electricity, energy and light industries.

19 abril, 2011During a mission to Conackry, Guinea early in April 2011, a representative of IMF Africa met with union leadership and shop stewards of Forum intersyndical des societes minieres et industrielles de Guinée (FISMIG) and visited some of the organized plants in order to better understand the labour movement in Guinea and challenges facing workers and the union.

18 abril, 2011Peta Thomson and Stephanie Eastcott attended their first national union conference in February 2011 following a decision by the AWU's national executive to encourage women's participation.