17 April, 2000Both Fiat and Renault are laying off workers at their car assembly factories.

13 April, 2000Romanian metalworkers' congress agrees a number of resolutions.

9 April, 2000The IMF was present at the meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the UN General Assembly.

6 April, 2000Production in all South Korean car plants has come to a standstill, as the April workers' "struggle" gets underway.

5 April, 2000World trade union leaders will discuss major issues affecting their membership in the steel industry at IMF conference.

5 April, 2000A new website -- www.global-unions.org -- to be run by the international trade union movement was launched on April 6, 2000.

4 April, 2000Negotiations collapse between steel company and union in Trinidad and Tobago.

12 January, 2000An IMF mission to India observes the acute difficulties facing workers in the ship-scrapping sector and says it is imperative global action be taken to ensure removal of dangerous substances before ships are sold for scrapping.

12 January, 2000Toni Ferigo, from Turin, Italy, has joined the IMF Secretariat in Geneva.

20 December, 1999A high participation rate in the partial general strike has sent a strong message to the government.