10 November, 2010Brazilian workers at Neodent, a company that intends to be among the world's top-five prosthetic companies by 2015, has been on strike since November 3 said the Greater Curitiba Metalworkers' Union, affiliated to the CNTM/FS
9 November, 2010A new film released this year brings to life a chapter of the struggle for equal pay for equal work in 1968 at a Ford plant in Dagenham, England where female machinists went on strike, demanding the same pay as the men in the factory. The film is based on a true story.
9 November, 2010Trade union and NGOs meeting at the latest GoodElectronics general meeting conclude that trade union rights and working conditions for electronics workers around the world are still far below acceptable standards and require the urgent attention of companies and governments.
18 October, 2010Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Rome on October 16, demanding workers' rights, democracy and jobs.
27 October, 2010The Indian trade union movement clearly faces a lack of women in leadership positions. Unlike in industry, women are strongly underrepresented in trade unions. This and other problems were discussed at the women workshop held in Delhi, on October 21 and 22.
26 October, 2010IMF finalizes draft guidelines on trade union networks in transnational corporations (TNCs) and looks in more detail at how these networks can lead to organizing and promoting international solidarity.
18 November, 2010Italian metalworker union FIM-CISL issues preliminary analysis of the working conditions at Italian transnational companies operating in Guangdong, China.
16 November, 2010Jairo del Río is a member of the Tenaris Workers' World Council and is grateful for its action to protect his own life after receiving death threats.
16 November, 2010The presence of more than one trade union in the same company; trade union statutes that do not prioritize a collective approach; different collective agreements within the same company; and above all, the lack of trade union unity all reflect the atomization of trade unions and the weakness of the movement in Chile that some would like to change.
