17 June, 2010At a workshop on communications and networking, metalworking trade unions in India examine how to strengthen communication capacity in the country.
1 June, 2010Work pressures at Foxconn, the world's biggest manufacturer of electronics components and the main supplier to Apple, have driven workers to commit suicide. The company, instead of improving working conditions, forces workers to give promises not to harm themselves.
31 May, 2010After three days of strike and local and international solidarity action, workers at a Johnson Controls plant (Resureccion) in Puebla, Mexico won recognition of freedom of association and agreement on an improved profit sharing payment.
5 February, 2010Global Labour University (GLU) offers Masters Programmes on sustainable development, social justice, international labour standards and trade unions, economic policies and global institutions. Deadline for applications is April 1, 2010.
7 April, 2010Park Ji-yeon, a young worker from Samsung semiconductor factory in Onyang, dies on March 31 at the age of 23 of leukemia. Korean unions and SHARPS activists insist it is an occupational cancer and demand accountability of the company.
5 May, 2010The Southern African Sub-Regional Meeting in Johannesburg discussed climate change issues and their impact on Africa. It was recognised that Africa will be most severely impacted by fossil based capitalist accumulation induced climate change in terms of impact but also from the limited capacity that the impoverished continent has to adapt to irreversible changes that are already underway. Trade unions need to be at the forefront of demanding appropriate measures that integrate industrial development with adaptation and mitigation strategies on climate change, realising that climate and economic issues are fundamentally linked. It was clear that a global and regional response is necessary and delegates began creating a discussion framework document to facilitate further discussions towards an Africa focused position and action plan.
19 February, 2010IMF joins striking miners in Cananea in remembering the 65 miners who died at the Grupo México mine in Pasta de Conchos on February 19, 2006.
10 February, 2010IMF calls for film submissions from affiliates for the 4th Annual Geneva Labour Film Shorts Festival, taking place on June 15, 2010.
9 February, 2010On January 28 local court ordered Leoni to reinstate unjustly dismissed union leader at Leoni Wiring Systems plant in Lviv area, Ukraine.
