7 April, 2008Metalworkers in Brazil are organising demonstrations and strikes throughout the country, to pressure Congress to approve a reduction in working hours.
15 May, 2008Three Finnish IMF affiliates believe Nokia should be the first Finnish company to sign an International Framework Agreement to secure basic rights for Nokia's employees around the globe.
5 May, 2008Unions challenge government's use of "state terror" and vow to raise issues of labour and human rights abuses with ILO and ECHR.
16 May, 2008Napoleón Gómez was re-elected as the union's General Secretary for the period 2008-2014 at the 35th ordinary general assembly of the Mexican miners' union.
16 June, 2008Three Italian metalworker unions to hold one hour strike on June 17 in support of implementing a new law on health and safety at work.
10 June, 2008Workers and unions were shocked on January 15 when Nokia management announced it would close its plant in Bochum, Germany by the end of June. Nokia had received nearly 100 million euros in government subsidies for the plant and was bound by law to guarantee jobs until December 31, 2007. Fourteen days later, despite it turning a sizable profit, Nokia declared the plant would close.
