13 March, 2009Workers around the world are pushing Tenaris to negotiate an International Framework Agreement.

2 April, 2009A panel of Mexico City Federal District Court judges has granted Napoleon Gomez Urrutia legal protection against extradition in a huge win for the Mexican Miners' Union.

2 April, 2009Governments around the world had probably no option other than to rescue the corrupt financial system that caused the economic crash we are paying for today. But it is a bail-out that comes at a hefty price for working people.

31 March, 2009Continued trade union rights violations at Sinter Metal in Turkey have prompted a joint call to action from the International and European Metalworkers' Federations.

1 December, 2010Calling for trade union rights in Mexico, the international trade union movement is holding various actions including rallies, meetings with Mexican ambassadors, and letter and mass email communication in at least 30 countries around the world from February 14 to 19, 2011.

1 December, 2010Some 670,000 German metal and electronics workers to get 2011 pay rises early, reports IG Metall.

3 September, 2010For the first time ever a shipbreaking yard was fined for a worker's death in Bangladesh

8 September, 2010ILO-IMF conference on "Challenges of Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion" will take place on September 13 in Oslo, with high-level participants including the heads of the ILO and International Monetary Fund.

8 September, 2010From September 10 Gerdau workers around the world will again call on Gerdau to improve its health and safety record and remember Aitor the worker who died on September 5 at a Gerdau plant in Spain.

8 September, 2010IMF affiliate IG Metall demands six per cent increase in wages for the steel industry, together with equal payment for all workers employed by the steel companies and labour agencies.