4 September, 2007Sporting a new modern look and featuring metalworking in Brazil, the latest edition of IMF's journal Metal World is available now on the IMF website.
3 September, 2007Participants at the IMF Central Committee, to be held in Brazil later this year, will find a very strong trade union movement particularly in the metalworking sector.
3 September, 2007In 1991 Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay began a process of establishing a Common Market, known as Mercosul. This report examines the challenges trade unions face in influencing the direction of the Mercosul, a market in which the auto and metalworking sectors play a significant role.
3 September, 2007Temporary, casual, insecure and contingent work is on the rise in the metal working sector, according to a recent IMF survey.
3 July, 2007Five shots were fired at the porter's lodge at the union offices. Fortunately, nobody was hit.
28 June, 2007Cristina Auerbach, a lawyer for the Mexican Pastoral for Workers, has been assaulted outside her home. The attackers stole documents relating to the death of the Pasta de Conchos miners.
4 October, 2007The new Swedish union will represent 500,000 members making it the largest union in the private sector.
28 September, 2007Umicore pledges to respect human and workers' rights in international agreement on sustainable development.
26 September, 2007ITUC report documents murder, violence and intimidation against trade unionists worldwide.
