2 noviembre, 2011São Paulo metalworkers in the CNTM plan to strike unless employers make a new offer on pay and other demands by November 4.

28 octubre, 2011IMF affiliates from Central and Eastern Europe met in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 26-27, 2011 for the Regional Conference and Women's Workshop. They discussed pay gap between working men and women, women's participation in the new organization, the process of creating the new federation and cases of union rights violations in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Ukraine and other countries in the region.

27 octubre, 2011Unions should more actively organize young non-manual workers and students, and use social media as a powerful tool to connect youth and union leaders.

26 octubre, 2011Billed as a lead up to World Day for Decent Work, the Canadian Auto Workers union recently hosted two "Good Jobs Bad Jobs" round tables with visiting union delegations from Denmark and South Africa.

10 noviembre, 2011UNTMRA thanks unions for their international support and solidarity, which helped to bring the strike to a successful conclusion after more than 25 days. The union says the struggle increased unity among metalworkers at the national level.

10 noviembre, 2011US unions scored an important victory on October 8 when voters in the state of Ohio in a referendum overwhelmingly rejected a Republican Senate Bill to limit public sector workers' collective bargaining rights.

8 noviembre, 2011The IMF Automotive Working Group met in Chennai and in Pune in India October 31 to November 4. 91 union representatives discussed strategy to win trade union rights across the globe, how to strengthen global trade union networks and cooperation with Indian auto workers.

8 noviembre, 2011Leaders of the seven Australian and New Zealand affiliates of the IMF, ICEM and ITGLWF met in Auckland, New Zealand on October 28 and resolved to create a new Council of the affiliates of the future new Federation in the two countries.

21 octubre, 201130,000 Finnish metalworkers began a strike in the metal industry the morning of October 21, after negotiations on a new national collective agreement broke down.

20 octubre, 2011Miriam Chipunza, NEWU, Zimbabwe, talks about her union's participation in the global action of the World Day of Decent Work and the importance of decent wages for workers in Zimbabwe.