21 septiembre, 2010Meeting in Gothenburg, union members of the SKF World Union Committee reported that measures negotiated with management enabled redundancies to be avoided through the economic crisis.

20 septiembre, 2010Unite outlines 10-point plan to revive British manufacturing at the TUC Congress on September 15, 2010.

16 septiembre, 2010Unions call for concrete action following the International Labour Organization and the International Monetary Fund conference on employment.

8 octubre, 2010This World Day for Decent Work, IMF affiliates IG Metall and FSPMI team up in their fight for fairer laws and working conditions for agency workers.

8 octubre, 2010Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sues U.S. Steel Corporation for the discriminative policy requiring probationary employees to undergo random alcohol tests and dismissals as a result of such test.

6 octubre, 2010Brazilian trade union leader Augusto Lima was killed by a security guard on October 1. The special homicide and kidnapping unit carries out preliminary investigations.

5 octubre, 2010Global Unions, representing more than 176 million working people worldwide, presents "Quality Public Services - Action Now!" a conference from October 12 to 14 in Geneva.

12 octubre, 2010Working Group on non-manual workers develops proposal on a workshop aimed at young workers in 2011.

12 octubre, 2010In the light of the upturn in the sector, delegates at the UNIA (Swiss affiliate of the IMF) conference approved a two to three per cent pay claim and a limit on temporary work.

12 octubre, 2010Four regional workshops training 100 shop stewards will be held in Zambia as part of ongoing efforts of the IMF to strengthen affiliated union, National Union of Building, Engineering and General Workers (NUBERGW).