12 agosto, 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.

25 junio, 2008Autoworker unions convene to address restructuring challenges in the global auto industry

25 junio, 2008"Collective bargaining lifts pay and community standards" say Australian unions in new television advertisements.

25 junio, 2008Three workers have died in the last two weeks at the shipyard at the Subic Bay in the Philippines. The IMF will raise issue of safety and health in shipbuilding at the forthcoming ILO World Congress on Safety and Health at Work.

25 junio, 2008The Freedom of Association Committee makes nine recommendations to the Mexican government with a view to ending the two-year conflict

23 junio, 2008The EU adopts new rules on return of irregular migrants including tough clauses on detention and re-entry.

16 junio, 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.

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10 junio, 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 junio, 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.