24 February, 2010IMF commits to strategic engagement at global level to counter power of TNCs seeking to undermine workers' rights and conditions worldwide.

23 February, 2010Agreement in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany provides for jobs security and wage rises to combat the effects of the financial crisis.

23 February, 2010GIKIL pays back wages to Bosnian workers and monitoring begins after workers take strike action and receive international solidarity support.

19 April, 2010Swedish unions secure pay increases in new industrial agreements.

19 April, 2010Workers at the Nissan plant in Kamenka near Saint-Petersburg formed a union affiliated to ITUA. Nissan management committed to good faith negotiations with the new union.

14 April, 2010Miners locked out of Rio Tinto's site in Boron, California make their demands for a fair contract to shareholders attending the company's AGM in London on April 15.

3 February, 2010International Metalworkers' Federation affiliates make donations to the recovery effort in Haiti as calls for debt relief intensify.

3 February, 2010The IMF and EMF are calling on auto components and sports equipment maker Ekoendustri to reinstate the workers immediately and respect ILO conventions 87 and 98 to which Turkey is a signatory.

1 February, 2010Building strong national trade unions is crucial. The strong unions which are in a permanent democratic relationship with workers, are capable of achieving real gains through collective bargaining, by organizing the unorganized, striving for trade union unity at the national level and building unions through training, education and effective exchange of information.

28 January, 2010European GM workers show solidarity to Antwerp Opel workers and Saab finds a new owner in Sweden.