10 February, 2003The IMF has launched a new section on its website dealing with International Framework Agreements.

5 February, 2003Shipbuilding worker and trade union activist burns himself to death as a result of harsh treatment by the company.

5 February, 2003

4 February, 2003Steel group is cutting back its production and freezing investments.

30 January, 2003DaimlerChrysler Freightliner workers in North Carolina show their support for the union.

23 June, 2002In 2005, when the doors for the 31st IMF World Congress open in Vienna, Austria, the host will be a trade union which does not yet exist. Rudolf Nürnberger, president of the Metall-Textil trade union, has begun to manage a giant logistic adventure: merging several trade union cultures into one, consisting of both blue- and white-collar workers.

23 June, 2002The developments in the aircraft sector and the predominance of the two corporations Boeing and Airbus make closer trade union cooperation necessary, both globally and between the workers' representatives of these two corporations.

20 June, 2002Millions of people supported trade union calls for general strikes on June 20.

20 June, 2002Striking trade unionists at truck plant turn away replacement workers.

18 June, 2002American multinational in Australia refuses to recognise union representation.