3 October, 2008Workers at major auto industry plants in Brazil went on strike during September in support of their demands for improved pay.

29 September, 2008Metalworkers around the world stand up and call for an end to precarious work.

11 July, 2008IG Metall calls restructuring plan "irresponsible", "excessive", and "unacceptable".

22 August, 200810,000 union members in the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia kick off latest round of IMF campaign actions against precarious work.

13 August, 2008IMF welcomes an historic agreement between Israeli and Palestinian trade unions.

12 August, 2008Progress for workers falls short of China's 2001 pledge to improve labour rights, activists still face forced-labour camps, detention without trial, and state executions.

19 December, 2008Korean union leader Yoon Hae-Mo is convicted of criminal obstruction of business and sentenced to one year imprisonment

15 December, 2008New 2008 edition of the IMF comparison of working time capacity in different countries.

24 September, 2008Members of Unite and USW were "Workers Uniting" outside Potosh Corporation's analyst's meeting in an effort to press the company to return to the bargaining table and reach settlement.

23 September, 2008Following a wave of strikes, the South Korean government has unleashed a massive attack against the Korean Metal Workers' Union targeting more than 75 of the union's key leaders for arrest or investigation.