27 February, 2000Slowly, with lots of difficulty and always on the brink of collapse, Russia is moving.

20 February, 2000As many as 1,800 jobs will be lost with the elimination of one shift at the Dagenham plant.

16 February, 2000In a demonstration of international solidarity with their Australian colleagues, Korean trade unions are marching in Seoul.

16 February, 2000IMF affiliate in Hungary supports the railway unions' strike.

14 February, 2000The professional staff of Ford UK, represented by the MSF and T&G, are taking industrial action and the Ford European and German Works Councils are backing them.

29 October, 2000Congress supports closer cooperation with the building workers' union.

26 October, 2000Tripartite commission reaches an agreement on working hours and week.

25 October, 2000A truly unified, social Europe must have a strong European trade union movement, but be part of the global discussion as well.

24 October, 2000IG Metall initiates plan to achieve a more just distribution of Germany's created wealth.

22 October, 2000Although global wealth is sharply increasing, the number of people living in acute poverty is also going up.