8 June, 2010In almost simultaneous raids on Grupo México mines in Cananea and Pasta de Conchos, Mexican government uses State and Federal forces to retake mines in blatant disrespect for the rights of Mexican Miners' Union, striking workers and grieving widows.
7 June, 2010IMF alarmed by reports that federal and state forces have moved into Cananea on Sunday night to execute arrest warrants against the union leaders of the Mexican Miners' Union.
4 June, 2010Responding to submissions made to him by IMF and IUF, the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights asks for the assistance of the ILO to better understand the impact of precarious work on human rights.
4 June, 2010In a time of crisis, tensions over the harmonization of status between manual and non-manual workers are increasing.
3 June, 2010Tenaris Workers' World Council got a minute of silence onto the company's June 2 AGM agenda, in remembrance of the death of Argentinean worker Rodrigo Lopez Amarilla, while also demanding a separate meeting with management to discuss Tenaris' global health and safety policy.
3 June, 2010British unions and Oxfam launch contest for short films as part of the Robin Hood Tax campaign, as interest builds in the fourth annual Geneva Labour Film Shorts Festival taking place on June 15.
3 June, 2010Workers at a Honda auto parts factory in China have returned to work with a 24 per cent wage increase, after taking strike action that shut down Honda assembly plants to protest low wages.
14 May, 2010IMF mourns the death of the Iranian trade unionist, Farzad Kamangar, who together with another four people was secretly executed in Iran on May 9.
11 June, 2010IMF Executive Committee establishes task force to explore merger process with ICEM and ITGLWF and discusses how to cooperate not compete in union building work.
10 June, 2010IMF calls on Philippines President-elect Aquino to keep his pre-election promise to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of murders of trade union and human rights activists in the Philippines, including of the latest victim Edward Panganiban, an independent labour leader shot dead on June 3, 2010.
