Congress elects new leadership25 May, 2009Affiliates united in their support for the new IMF leadership elected by Congress.
GM workers across Europe mobilise in Antwerp23 September, 2009Workers rally at Opel plant in Antwerp demanding no to the closure of plants and no to forced redundancies.
Prominent workers' rights activist attacked in Kazakhstan2 October, 2009Ainur Kurmanov, a prominent workers' rights activist, was viciously attacked and hospitalized.
Brazilian metalworkers win major gains in annual pay round25 September, 2009The FEM-CUT/SP, affiliated to CNM/CUT, and the Greater Curitiba Metalworkers' Union, affiliated to the CNTM/FS, have won a pay rise that will have a positive influence on other negotiations in the sector.
Surprise: labour market deregulation is no recipe for development!29 April, 2009After years of strong criticism by trade unions, the World Bank has finally instructed its staff to stop using the labour indicators of its "Doing Business" flagship publication that gives higher rating to countries with the lowest workers' protection.
Precarious work is focus of 2009 labour film festival10 June, 2009The third annual Geneva Labour Film Shorts Festival features fourteen films from around the world produced by, for, and about unions and working people.
IMF creates strike fund for Indonesian Toshiba workers3 July, 2009Metalworkers around the world are called on to donate funds to support 700 striking workers and members of FSPMI as the industrial dispute at Toshiba Consumer Products Indonesia intensifies.
