20 February, 2009Leaders from IMF affiliates around the world met in Geneva, Switzerland on February 19 for an extraordinary meeting of the IMF Executive Committee to prepare for the 32nd IMF World Congress.
13 March, 2009Workers around the world are pushing Tenaris to negotiate an International Framework Agreement.
20 March, 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.
25 March, 2009Metalworkers in Japan are pushing back against employer attempts to pass the cost of the global financial crisis on to workers.
2 April, 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.
2 April, 2009Governments around the world had probably no option other than to rescue the corrupt financial system that caused the economic crash we are paying for today. But it is a bail-out that comes at a hefty price for working people.
31 March, 2009Continued trade union rights violations at Sinter Metal in Turkey have prompted a joint call to action from the International and European Metalworkers' Federations.
26 March, 2009The current crisis is exacerbating the problems experienced by women in precarious work and their families, according to EMF -- IMF workshop on the impact of precarious work on families and communities.
