3 December, 2008On the night of Thursday November 13th 2008 Alexei Etmanov, the leader of the Ford-Vsevelozhsk trade union and co-chairman of Interregional Trade Union of Autoworkers (ITUA), an affiliate of IMF, was assaulted once again.
13 December, 2005"Aid for trade" must not be a service in return for concessions by developing countries that could slow down their development efforts, warned the trade union movement yesterday, December 12, in Hong Kong.
8 December, 2005IMF-affiliated United Steelworkers has pledged a campaign with other US unions to persuade the American Government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
18 September, 2009The European Metalworkers' Federation calls for solidarity and invites unions to participate in a demonstration at the Opel Plant in Antwerp on September 23, 2009.
24 November, 2009Workers from unions represented by the Gerdau Global Workers' Committee distributed leaflets at Gerdau Group plants, organised meetings and held marches and demonstrations throughout the world on its international day of struggle on November 18.
19 November, 2009Spanish affiliates of the IMF and ICEM confronted Vale S.A.'s CFO during a high-level investment conference two days after a joint Canadian/Brazilian delegation held a ceremonial head-shaving protest in front of Vale offices in downtown Seoul.
19 November, 2009Union communicators from all parts of the world met in Frankfurt to discuss union campaigns, innovative communication strategies and new media techniques at the first joint IMF-EMF Communicators' Forum.
4 November, 2009Union leaders and activists from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan discussed organizing and labour rights at IMF conference in Moscow.
3 November, 2009Metalworkers around the world are called on to donate funds in support of 350 struggling Sinter Metal workers, fighting for reinstatement since December 2008.<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick"> <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="9372587"><input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/CH/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!"><img alt="" order="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"></form>
9 November, 2009Leaflets issued by IMF affiliate ITUA were included in the 'Federal List of Extremist Materials' in Russia.
