14 November, 2009IMF Affiliates from Asia, Europe and Latin America, meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, find commonalities in the experiences of migrant workers in the different continents and agree on strategies to organize migrant workers and protect their rights.
30 April, 2010Workers of the Alexandrinskaya Ore Mining Company in Chelyabinsk held a picket line in front of the company's representation in Ural.
29 April, 2010IMF gives support to touch screen manufacturing workers fighting for basic rights at Young Fast Optoelectronics in Taiwan, a company that supplies to Samsung, LG, HTC and Google.
27 April, 2010IMF joins affiliates in the call for proper consultation on and assessment of the impact of a Canada-EU comprehensive economic trade agreement.
23 April, 2010Affiliates analysed the current situation with reference to the IMF's main actions: progress towards unity with other Global Union Federations (GUFs); the impact of the crisis on the metalworking sector; and the activities and projects of the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Office.
30 March, 2010The International Labour Organization's special Commission of Inquiry presents report on Zimbabwean government violations of fundamental rights.
26 March, 2010The Africa Regional Office of the IMF would like to welcome Kettie Tembo, International Development Project Coordinator for UNITE, the largest UK trade union. Kettie will be working out of the regional office implementing the capacity building project for trade unions in Southern Africa.
26 March, 2010Education is an essential cornerstone to building democratic and sustainable unions. Responding to a request from USTIC for capacity building in trade union education, , Kapita Twizana of the IMF regional office travelled to Cameroon in February 2010 where he held a train the trainer workshop in Douala.
25 March, 2010International labour movement takes action as tensions remain high at Mexico's Cananea mine where 1,300 miners have occupied a Grupo Mexico copper mine defending their right to strike for health and safety standards on the job.
24 March, 2010IMF and ICEM give international solidarity support to Vale workers at a rally in Sudbury on March 23 and join calls for a Global Week of Action against Vale Inco from April 5 to 11, 2010.
