11 June, 2001Job Cuts above 1,000 announced until July 31, 2001, sorted by number of job cuts.

10 June, 2001One of Great Britain's largest unions favours a modern attitude to changes in the public services.

6 June, 2001Members of the Venezuelan steelworkers' union SUTISS are on strike and need international support.

6 June, 2001USWA COMMENDS BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR INITIATING SECTION 201 FOR STEEL, PLUS OTHER TRADE ACTIONS ANNOUNCED ON JUNE 5, 2001

6 June, 2001The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) commends the Bush administration for its initiative to protect the U.S. steel industry.

6 January, 2003

19 December, 2002Workers in the majority of European countries abandoned their trade unions in the 1990s. For the Finnish Metalworkers' Union the situation has been the opposite. The deep recession and mass unemployment at the start of the decade was followed by a unique increase in members, especially among young metalworkers. Metal World visited the northern outpost of Oulu, Finland's Silicon Valley.

19 December, 2002Dutch electronics transnational to transfer optical storage production to Taiwan.

19 December, 2002Luiz Inácio da Silva, better known as Lula, has been elected president of Brazil. IMF secretariat member Toni Ferigo gives his personal account of the former leader of the IMF metal-worker affiliate CNM-CUT.

18 December, 2002The Costa Rican distributor of Mercedes-Benz fired workers who were trying to form a local of the union "ANTEP".