20 March, 2007Occupational cancer is the single largest cause of work-related deaths, but the risks have been down-played by governments, health and safety enforcement agencies and employers. Addressing the workplace cancer issue takes a combination of awareness raising and action in the workplace and company-wide.

13 March, 2007Location of new industrial center in India threatens agricultural community.

29 September, 2006Delegates to the IFA World Conference in Germany prepare a list of recommendations to be presented to the Executive Committee in November on how to improve IFAs and use them as a tool for building national unions and international solidarity.

15 March, 2001A new economic agenda in India has meant that the private sector has taken over a major share of the development of industry. Workers have paid the price for that. METAL WORLD has visited a small enterprise in Bangalore, India's fastest-growing city.

15 March, 2001The role of the trade unions in South Africa has completely changed, says Silumko Nondwangu, Numsa's general secretary since August last year.

15 March, 2001Another 440 workers have been laid off as a consequence of dismissals at Fiat.

15 March, 2001The IMF-affiliated Iron and Steel Trades Confederation is campaigning hard to save steelworkers' jobs.

14 March, 2001The following is a short report of the USWA international conference on aluminium, held in Las Vagas on March 5-7, 2001.

14 March, 2001Health and safety in the workplace is the focus for April 28.

13 March, 2001Steelworkers protest the further weakening of Katowice Steelworks.