15 septiembre, 2011Fujitsu workers launch a 24 hour strike in Manchester and Crewe over pay disputes and discrimination against a union representative.

15 septiembre, 2011On August 27-28 the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) and the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada (CAW) held a workshop in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, for union activists from an array of plants in the region.

14 septiembre, 2011A first-of-a-kind collective agreement took root in Germany's solar energy manufacturing industry on 1 September. It was then that a labour contract took effect between IG Metall and three subsidiaries of Bosch in the state of Thuringia, making it the first collective agreement in Germany's solar power industry.

6 octubre, 2011Three days after attending the IMF workshop on union building and organizing two Thai metalworkers' unions agreed to forge closer cooperation and build a stronger metalworkers union movement in Thailand with an estimated hundred thousand membership.

31 enero, 2011FIOM-CGIL held a national strike of metalworkers in Italy on January 28, 2011 in defence of the National Collective Agreement and for the protection of workers' rights.

31 enero, 2011The newly formed Electronics Industry Workers' Union (Southern Region) successfully campaign to secure union rights at ST Microelectronics in Muar, Malaysia

27 enero, 2011IMF and ICEM visit the Umicore plants in Port Elisabeth, South Africa, January 24 to 26, as part of the implementation of the Umicore International Framework Agreement. Due to recent issues between local management and trade unions at the plants, the visit proved essential in delivering positive and constructive results for workers.

7 enero, 2011The IMF Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean highlighted the impact of job insecurity and employers' refusal to recognise the freedom of association. He also requested greater ILO cooperation in strengthening national and international collective bargaining at the sector level.

5 enero, 2011IMF's South Asian affiliates deliberated upon a regional focus in IMF's work for the South Asia to intensify organising workers in shipbreaking industry, Special Economic Zones (SEZs), establishing sustainable union structures, strong national unions and effective utilisation of IMF's communication and trade union networks to build international solidarity

23 diciembre, 2010In the evening of December 19, mass demonstrations were staged in Minsk. Four trade unionists were arrested. The IMF demands the immediate release of Michael Kovalkov, Alexei Kovun, Vladimir Sergeev and Alexander Tysevich and an end of the violations of fundamental human rights in Belarus.