25 June, 2008Autoworker unions convene to address restructuring challenges in the global auto industry
25 June, 2008"Collective bargaining lifts pay and community standards" say Australian unions in new television advertisements.
25 June, 2008Three workers have died in the last two weeks at the shipyard at the Subic Bay in the Philippines. The IMF will raise issue of safety and health in shipbuilding at the forthcoming ILO World Congress on Safety and Health at Work.
25 June, 2008The Freedom of Association Committee makes nine recommendations to the Mexican government with a view to ending the two-year conflict
28 November, 2007IMF delegates gathered in the former capital of Brazil, Salvador, to discuss crucial IMF issues.
20 November, 2007The union has been negotiating for four months without management seriously considering proposals.
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, 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.
