26 August, 1999IAM Boeing workers took to the street in the final week of contract talks between the union and the aircraft manufacturer.
25 August, 1999The president of the Finnish Metalworkers' Union favours levying a tax on short-term international capital transfers.
22 August, 1999Striking port and airport workers have been violently attacked by the police and armed forces, with many arrests carried out.
18 August, 1999The International Metalworkers' Federation expresses its profound sympathy with the people of Turkey, and with all metalworkers and their families affected by one of the strongest earthquakes this century, and urges humanitarian support.
24 January, 2000The theme for the KMWF convention was "Building an Industrial Union -- Empowerment of the Workers".
20 January, 2000IMF writes to multinationals selling their products through a Ghanaian company to call to order their distributor.
18 January, 2000Tripartite cooperation must continue to be the rule that governs the ILO, says the IMF general secretary, Marcello Malentacchi, in his new column.
17 January, 2000Tomoyuki Fukuma, a well-known former trade unionist and member of Parliament in Japan, was highly respected by the international trade union movement.
17 January, 2000The United Auto Workers' union has announced that 1999 was one of their most successful organising years ever.
