6 May, 2010Mexican Miners' Union Convention decides to continue the four-year old struggle for trade union autonomy and an end to Grupo Mexico and Mexican government abuse.
6 May, 2010A Tribunal resolution repudiates government violations of human and trade union rights and calls for compliance with ILO Conventions 87 and 98 on the Freedom of Association and the Right to Organise.
6 May, 2010Fellesforbundet secures an estimated three per cent rise for metal workers in its new two year sector collective agreement with Norsk Industri.
5 May, 2010Africa: The political economy of Africa has taken another dark turn staggering under the three crises of economy, food and climate. These three crises are interdependent and find their origin in the current system of accumulation and plundering of resources by large transnational corporations. Developing a response to any of these crises can not be done in isolation to the others and hoping to be rescued by the Global North is a strategy that has historically delivered little more than empty promises. Industrialisation, decent work and strong trade unions ensuring fair production and fair trade are prerequisites to addressing poverty in Africa and averting a deepening humanitarian disaster.
3 June, 2010ILO Director-General in his annual report at the International Labour Conference warns that pressure from financial markets can jeopardize recovery: domestic workers, HIV/AIDS, employment and rights at work all on the Conference agenda.
14 May, 2010IMF mourns the death of the Iranian trade unionist, Farzad Kamangar, who together with another four people was secretly executed in Iran on May 9.
3 May, 2010Revision of Social Security laws was the central demand of the Indonesian labour movement during a massive 2010 Labour Day march and demonstration.
2 May, 2010Workers and unions celebrate May Day in Taksim Square for the first time in more than 30 years; global unions, including the IMF, show support and pledge to coordinate continued solidarity actions to defend workers' rights in Turkey.
8 June, 2010In almost simultaneous raids on Grupo México mines in Cananea and Pasta de Conchos, Mexican government uses State and Federal forces to retake mines in blatant disrespect for the rights of Mexican Miners' Union, striking workers and grieving widows.
7 June, 2010IMF alarmed by reports that federal and state forces have moved into Cananea on Sunday night to execute arrest warrants against the union leaders of the Mexican Miners' Union.
