4 March, 2010Foxconn dismisses 75 night shift workers and threatens job losses for another 300 after workers protest against being detained and forced to work extra time after midnight on February 20, 2010.
1 March, 2010Philips fires workers and pays higher bonuses to the top managers during time of financial crisis, reports the European Metalworkers' Federation.
24 February, 2010International delegation of Tenaris unionists will travel to Colombia to show solidarity with workers and their union at the Tenaris plant in Cartagena.
24 February, 2010IMF commits to strategic engagement at global level to counter power of TNCs seeking to undermine workers' rights and conditions worldwide.
19 April, 2010Workers at the Nissan plant in Kamenka near Saint-Petersburg formed a union affiliated to ITUA. Nissan management committed to good faith negotiations with the new union.
17 March, 2010On March 15 a district court in Russia ruled illegal the dismissal of Evgeny Ivanov and ordered General Motors pay him three and a half months' wages in arrears and compensate moral harm.
15 March, 2010A second complaint regarding the use of protection contracts in Mexico was lodged in February 2010 with the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Committee on Freedom of Association following an earlier, similar complaint lodged by the International Metalworkers' Federation.
26 July, 2010Fire claimed the life of shipbreaking worker Shamshaulla Shaikh and injured five others at the Alang yards in India on July 24.
