Steel unions agree to environmental global strategy12 November, 2008IMF affiliates lead fight for international solutions to climate change in the steel industry.
KMWU branch chair is sentenced to one year imprisonment19 December, 2008Korean union leader Yoon Hae-Mo is convicted of criminal obstruction of business and sentenced to one year imprisonment
Turkish metalworkers fired for union actions9 January, 2009IMF calls on Sinter Metal to end violations of trade union rights and reinstate all 350 unfairly dismissed workers.
Finnish Metalworkers' Union vote on merger2 February, 2009Membership will decide on whether to build one strong industrial union out of the merging of six.
IMF calls for reinstatement of OECD monitoring process in Korea3 March, 2009Global union fact-finding mission finds labour rights violations in Korea worsening since the lifting of the OECD monitoring process in 2007, unions call on government to implement key ILO recommendations.
Tenaris International Day of Action13 March, 2009Workers around the world are pushing Tenaris to negotiate an International Framework Agreement.
Strike in Tuzla shipyard16 June, 2008Limter İş holds day long strike following the death of another shipbuilding worker in the Tuzla shipyards in Turkey.
ILO asks the Mexican government to resolve its dispute with the miners' union25 June, 2008The Freedom of Association Committee makes nine recommendations to the Mexican government with a view to ending the two-year conflict
