13 March, 2002Ding Tei Bing is a metalworker at the port of Qinhuangdao, People's Republic of China. His country is going through fundamental changes as a market economy is being introduced. Ding: "If we do not introduce changes, we will not survive."
2 December, 2001About 6,000 Australian Workers' Union members at BHP Steel will walk off the job next Monday for 24 hours after a breakdown in enterprise bargaining talks.
20 November, 2001The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and its "Global Unions" partners have released a list of 250 multinational companies with business links to Burma.
13 November, 2001Congress vows international trade union action against the transnational metals and mining company.
12 November, 2001Bill Shorten, of the Australian Workers' Union, says that Australia's workplace laws and reform agenda are turning the country into an outcast of the developed world.
8 November, 2001Top official of British Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, in Australia for IMF Congress, returns to the UK because of the tragedy.
7 November, 2001Commission decides non-union contracts are discriminatory and victimise workers who choose collective bargaining rights.
5 November, 2001There is concern that the visa rejections are based on discrimination against delegates coming from Muslim African countries.
29 October, 2001With the decrease in orders, the VW European Works Council has passed a resolution demanding that governments launch an incentives programme.
