16 January, 2008Police and military attack striking Cananea workers fighting for better wages and health and safety improvements.

16 January, 2008A global conference of worker representatives heard that while BHP Billiton's approach to unions varies from particular sites and across nations, the company seeks to undermine collective worker arrangements.

9 January, 2008

9 January, 2008Entschliessung des Zentralkomitees des Internationalen Metallgewerkschaftsbunds zur Unterstützung der Ford-Arbeitnehmer in Vsevolojsk, Russland

8 January, 2008Responding to the spread of contract work requires the strengthening of metalworking union organizing and unity among workers.

13 December, 2007

10 December, 2007Unions ask questions at AGM about BHP Billiton's policies on industrial relations and climate change.

7 December, 2007Two workers died and another eight were hospitalised after a fire broke out.

1 February, 2008... Concluded trade unionists at a European Metalworkers' Federation trade union coordination meeting, following the announced closure of the Nokia plant in Bochum, Germany.

31 January, 2008Global conference on Occupational and Environmental Cancer Prevention - Friday 25 April, 2008 at the University of Stirling, Scotland.