8 May, 2000Today, 84,600 private sector workers are going back to work.

3 May, 2000A government manual "advises" senior civil servants on negotiating tactics.

15 December, 2002Italian and Brazilian metalworkers' unions join forces to fight against child labour.

10 December, 2002The United Steelworkers of America have greeted this decision as a "triumph" of their members' solidarity.

8 December, 2002

5 December, 2002Members of the Portuguese metalworkers' union will join national trade union center in an all-out struggle against government attempts to impose revisions in labour and social security laws.

5 December, 2002Italy's three metalworkers' unions - FIOM, FIM and UILM - say the automaker's recovery plan is too tough to swallow.

3 December, 2002Wage increases and qualitative improvements are included in new collective contract.

12 December, 2000Europe's last dictator, the Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko, is trying to get the trade unions under his own control. But the violations have made them more united than ever.

12 December, 2000Negotiations for a collective agreement for the Ulsan shipyard workers have reopened.