13 June, 2000The theme of the IMF Central Committee meeting in Birmingham will be "Trade and Sustainable Growth and Development."

12 June, 2000The dispute at Pilkingtons is over wages and the anti-union stance of the company.

12 June, 2000The Central Committee for the year 2000 will see an increase in membership of over three-quarters of a million metalworkers.

5 June, 2000National secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union calls for minister's resignation.

19 November, 2000Atlas Copco (India) union had requested the intervention of the IMF and Swedish Metalworkers with the company's head office.

19 November, 2000As the widespread use of forced labour continues, the ILO takes unprecedented action by invoking Article 33 of its Constitution.

16 November, 2000Labour court rules in favour of workers' wage demands.

15 November, 2000Kjell Björndalen replaces Max Baehring as head of the IMF Shipbuilding Department.

15 November, 2000The international trade union movement has lost a friend and colleague, Rüdiger Sielaff, of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Germany.

14 November, 2000Max Baehring has been nominated as a new member of the IMF Executive Committee.