10 July, 2002Four union activists went back to work today thanks to a strong fight by their union and to international solidarity.

2 July, 2002Two more trade union leaders have been released from prison as a result of international solidarity action on June 27.

23 June, 2002In 2005, when the doors for the 31st IMF World Congress open in Vienna, Austria, the host will be a trade union which does not yet exist. Rudolf Nürnberger, president of the Metall-Textil trade union, has begun to manage a giant logistic adventure: merging several trade union cultures into one, consisting of both blue- and white-collar workers.

23 June, 2002The developments in the aircraft sector and the predominance of the two corporations Boeing and Airbus make closer trade union cooperation necessary, both globally and between the workers' representatives of these two corporations.

24 September, 2001The IMF general secretary says the time has come to bring an end to the issue of organising electronics workers in this country.

19 September, 2001Tens of thousands of jobs will be cut as part of the fallout from the terrorist attacks in the U.S. last week.

17 September, 2001Klaus Zwickel is the toolmaker from Heilbronn, near Stuttgart, who became president of the German IG Metall and the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF). His way of being was coined by the red sixties.

17 September, 2001The ICT companies in the so-called new economy have presented themselves as job creators, but this reputation belongs to the past. The trade unions have to make considerable efforts to strengthen their bases in companies of the ICT sector.

17 September, 2001The South African metalworkers' union calls the outcome of the dispute an unqualified success.

16 September, 2001The trade union representing DaimlerChrysler workers in Campo Largo, Brazil, is trying to save 250 jobs.