13 April, 2000Romanian metalworkers' congress agrees a number of resolutions.

9 April, 2000The IMF was present at the meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the UN General Assembly.

6 April, 2000Production in all South Korean car plants has come to a standstill, as the April workers' "struggle" gets underway.

5 April, 2000World trade union leaders will discuss major issues affecting their membership in the steel industry at IMF conference.

5 April, 2000A new website -- www.global-unions.org -- to be run by the international trade union movement was launched on April 6, 2000.

4 April, 2000Negotiations collapse between steel company and union in Trinidad and Tobago.

3 April, 2000The Canadian Steelworkers in Sudbury are hosting a meeting with their fellow nickel workers from Russia.

12 December, 2000Mari-Ann Krantz, SIF, Sweden, is one of three female trade union presidents within the IMF. She is critizing the old-fashioned trade union structure with different organisations for manual and non-manual workers.

12 December, 2000The metalworkers' database report is the fruit of a close cooperation between the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) and the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) and affiliated organisations.

11 December, 2000Five metalworkers' unions have decided to form a joint union, the Zimbabwe Metalworkers' Union.