25 July, 2008Trade unionists are invited to apply to one of four different Masters programmes offered in Germany, South Africa, Brazil and India.
10 September, 2008Unions around the world pledge solidarity with the 27,000 aerospace workers who walked off the job and onto the picket line at U.S. facilities in Kansas, Oregon and Washington.
8 September, 2008The latest issue of Metal World features a look at organising precarious workers in Indonesia's Export Processing Zones, a report on leveraged buyouts in the metal sector and an interview with Solidarność's Stefan Przybyszewski.
8 September, 2008The technical officer who produced the post-explosion report on the Pasta de Conchos mine tells a Mexican press conference it is possible to reopen the mine to recover the bodies of the 63 miners who died on 19 February 2006.
16 June, 2008Three Italian metalworker unions to hold one hour strike on June 17 in support of implementing a new law on health and safety at work.
10 June, 2008Workers and unions were shocked on January 15 when Nokia management announced it would close its plant in Bochum, Germany by the end of June. Nokia had received nearly 100 million euros in government subsidies for the plant and was bound by law to guarantee jobs until December 31, 2007. Fourteen days later, despite it turning a sizable profit, Nokia declared the plant would close.
20 September, 2010Workers have little to celebrate on Mexico' 200th Day of Independence, as the Mexican Miners' Union holds its 15th National Forum in Cananea to show support for striking workers who suffered their most recent violent attack on their rights one week earlier.
17 September, 2010Autoworkers at Renault and Volvo in Brazil will vote on an offer from automakers that is less than their demands at a union meeting on September 17.
17 September, 2010The two week nationwide strike by motor industry workers has ended after the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) reached a negotiated settlement with employers.
