12 marzo, 2003Labour-management agreement points to victory for the trade union.

6 marzo, 2003The union's main concerns in the negotiations dealt with pensions, contracting out and seniority.

27 febrero, 2003With no budgeting or other provisions for health and safety, workplace accidents and job-related health problems are steadily increasing.

26 febrero, 2003More action will be forthcoming if government does not respond positively to demands.

6 enero, 2003

19 diciembre, 2002Workers in the majority of European countries abandoned their trade unions in the 1990s. For the Finnish Metalworkers' Union the situation has been the opposite. The deep recession and mass unemployment at the start of the decade was followed by a unique increase in members, especially among young metalworkers. Metal World visited the northern outpost of Oulu, Finland's Silicon Valley.

19 diciembre, 2002Dutch electronics transnational to transfer optical storage production to Taiwan.

19 diciembre, 2002Luiz Inácio da Silva, better known as Lula, has been elected president of Brazil. IMF secretariat member Toni Ferigo gives his personal account of the former leader of the IMF metal-worker affiliate CNM-CUT.

18 diciembre, 2002The Costa Rican distributor of Mercedes-Benz fired workers who were trying to form a local of the union "ANTEP".

16 diciembre, 2002In Marcello Malentacchi's just-published opinion column, he describes the IMF Executive Committee's recent visit to the maquiladoras of northern Mexico.