21 мая, 2001Fred Derby, well-known trade union activist and legislator, has died at the age of 61.

21 мая, 2001Negotiations between IAM negotiators for District 141 and United Airlines management have reached an impasse.

20 мая, 2001Ilkka Joenpalo will preside the newly-merged Finnish white-collar union, whose membership is made up of 48 per cent women.

19 мая, 2001IMF website covers the work of the 30th IMF World Congress.

17 сентября, 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 сентября, 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.

17 сентября, 2001The South African metalworkers' union calls the outcome of the dispute an unqualified success.

16 сентября, 2001The trade union representing DaimlerChrysler workers in Campo Largo, Brazil, is trying to save 250 jobs.

13 сентября, 2001The USWA says that a first step has been taken to save the bankrupt steel company.

9 сентября, 2001IMF editors and press officers, meeting in Seoul, give their solidarity support to members of the FKMTU and KMWU, who are experiencing great difficulties due to the economic crisis and downturn.