17 junio, 2001During the period of the John Howard government in Australia, there has been a deficit of 275,000 jobs in manufacturing.

17 junio, 2001During the past few days, police in Seoul have persisted in attempts to arrest trade union leaders.

16 junio, 2001Welcome Desk/Airport Shuttle

14 junio, 2001The IMF should investigate the behaviour of the multinational companies worldwide and publish the results in a yearly white paper, suggests Giorgio Caprioli, the general secretary of the FIM, one of three IMF affiliates in Italy.

14 junio, 2001Formerly, the Polish people were told that everything in the West was terrible and everything in the East was OK. That picture has changed, says Marek Danowski, working at a shipyard in Gdansk.

13 junio, 2001The ILO Workers' Group charges that the Indonesian government has acquiesced in the use of violence against workers.

12 junio, 2001The ILO takes a major step aimed at ending the most abusive forms of child labour.

19 septiembre, 2001Tens of thousands of jobs will be cut as part of the fallout from the terrorist attacks in the U.S. last week.

17 septiembre, 2001Klaus Zwickel is the toolmaker from Heilbronn, near Stuttgart, who became president of the German IG Metall and the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF). His way of being was coined by the red sixties.

17 septiembre, 2001The ICT companies in the so-called new economy have presented themselves as job creators, but this reputation belongs to the past. The trade unions have to make considerable efforts to strengthen their bases in companies of the ICT sector.