26 November, 2001President Sung-hyun Mun, KMWF, has been taken to prison in Seoul.

21 November, 2001Guy Ryder, current Chief of Cabinet at the ILO, has been appointed acting General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), replacing Bill Jordan.

21 November, 2001The workers at Volkswagen's plant in Sao Bernardo in Brazil voted Wednesday to accept a management offer to cut salaries and working hours by 15 percent to save 3,000 jobs and pave the way for a modernisation of the plant.

13 August, 2002The accumulation of such power is dangerous for democracy and development says the IMF.

1 August, 2002Workers' jobs and pension funds must be secured.

30 July, 2002The IMF and its affiliates are calling on the South Korean president to grant a special amnesty to the jailed leader of the KCTU.

29 July, 2002The ICFTU Survey 2002 reveals an increase in the assassination of trade unionists.

24 July, 2002After a month-long strike which began on June 24, the Kia Motors workers' union and company management reach settlement in collective bargaining.

23 July, 2002Trinidad and Tobago steel union threatens strike action if agreement is not reached.

21 July, 2002The FTUB leadership elects deputy head of Lukashenko's presidential administration as the trade union federation's new president.