9 October, 2008Trade unions from North and South America release joint statement on the international financial crisis and the WTO.

6 October, 2008Speech to GUF/ACTRAV forum at the ILO on "Towards Social Justice: applying labour standards to precarious workers"

6 October, 2008Kick off of the IMF health and safety project in the steel and non-ferrous sectors in the Balkans.

15 July, 2008As IMF affiliates prepare to take action from September 30 to October 7, 2008, the IMF launches campaign web pages against precarious work at: <a href="../precariouswork">www.imfmetal.org/precariouswork</a>

14 July, 2008NEWU regional offices forced to close while membership drops dramatically as companies shut down operations amidst Zimbabwe's economic collapse.

11 July, 2008IMF calls on management at Kasese Cobalt to resume contract negotiations and reinstate 116 workers unfairly dismissed for demonstrating outside of administration offices.

12 November, 2010Australian metalworkers are blaming the high Australian dollar for a decision by the mining truck maker Caterpillar to shift manufacturing overseas.

17 December, 2010IMF shipbuilding/breaking sector will take action to promote OHS and green jobs in the shipbuilding/breaking industry next year in Istanbul, Turkey. The IMF shipbuilding Action Group also decided to have a deeper discussion to achieve a level playing field for sustainable jobs.

16 December, 2010Ending a one month sit-in strike, subcontracted workers at Hyundai in Korea returned to work and began negotiations with the company. At the heart of the dispute are the workers' demands for full union rights and to be recognized as permanent workers, in line with an earlier Supreme Court decision.

1 November, 2010Volkswagen's world works council discusses the implementation of the group's labour relations charter. For the first time, worker and management representatives from the plants in China attend the meeting.