French unions launch massive strikes30 января, 2009Metalworkers strike for job security, fair wages, and secure pensions amidst global financial crisis.
Opel/Vauxhall and Saab European Action Day on 26 February 25 февраля, 2009Workers need a sustainable and viable future for Opel/Vauxhall and Saab.
IMF Summer School invites applicants16 марта, 2009NOTE: For financial reasons IMF Summer school 2009 is cancelled
Workers of Zlatoust Steel Plant restarted their hunger strike20 марта, 2009At Zlatoust Steel Plant ZSP in Russia steelworkers renew their hunger strike. Workers demand to return normal length of working day and level of wages and do not trust their management who violated own obligations. The trade union is looking for the ways to solve the conflict.
Miner's union wants company negligence to be punishable by law20 марта, 2009The union says there is an urgent need for a law against corporate homicide that can be used to punish companies that put their workers' lives in danger by not establishing adequate health and safety at work systems.
Japanese Spring Offensive negotiations counter impacts of financial crisis25 марта, 2009Metalworkers in Japan are pushing back against employer attempts to pass the cost of the global financial crisis on to workers.
Mexican Miners' Union leader wins injunction against arrest warrants2 апреля, 2009A panel of Mexico City Federal District Court judges has granted Napoleon Gomez Urrutia legal protection against extradition in a huge win for the Mexican Miners' Union.
Remember the dead and ban asbestos22 апреля, 2008This International Workers' Memorial Day, April 28, the IMF calls for a ban on the use of asbestos, particularly in countries in Asia.
Unions block arms delivery to Zimbabwe23 апреля, 2008Workers in South Africa forced a Chinese ship carrying arms destined for Zimbabwe to leave the South African port of Durban after failing to unload.
Napoleón Gómez re-elected as leader of miners' union16 мая, 2008Napoleón Gómez was re-elected as the union's General Secretary for the period 2008-2014 at the 35th ordinary general assembly of the Mexican miners' union.
