23 abril, 2012Buckling to massive international pressure mounted by unions, activists and human rights defenders, Serbian authorities free Hasan Abazi , President of the Independent Metalworkers' Union of Kosovo International.

19 abril, 2012Union members and workers handed out replica Olympic medals to Rio Tinto shareholders saying 'Don't let Rio Tinto tarnish the Olympic Games' and raised questions at the company's annual general meeting in London today, April 19, 2012.

30 abril, 2012The IMF and Ford signed an International Framework Agreement (IFA) in Detroit on April 25. It is the first IFA with an automotive company outside of Europe.

30 abril, 2012In the International Labour Organization's annual report on global labour conditions released March 30, the UN agency predicts that European social unrest will heighten this year as governments continue to forge ahead with ill-advised austerity policies. It also forecasts that over 202 million people worldwide will be unemployed in 2012.

16 abril, 2012These contracts deny workers the internationally recognised rights to the freedom of association and collective bargaining, impose long working hours, low pay, poor working conditions, abusive treatment and little access to health and maternity benefits and pensions because they are not permanent employment contracts.

11 abril, 2012In Finland, the media, the company's biggest shareholder and trade unions organising PKC workers have spoken out against the company's protection contract with the CTM. Mexican workers had chosen the SNTMMSRM to represent them.

5 abril, 2012As ICEM, IMF and ITGLWF's dissolution and founding Congresses approach, www.building-power.org website goes live.

3 abril, 2012Italian workers reach an agreement with Alcoa to keep their enterprise in Sardinia open for one more year. Workers hope that a new owner will acquire and re-launch the site.

3 abril, 2012IMF affiliates UTRAMMICOL and FETRAMECOL and unions affiliated to the ICEM have agreed to create a single National Manufacturing Industry Union in Colombia.

3 abril, 2012Benteler workers in Russia win the strike over recognition of their union. On April 2 the administration of the plant issued an official statement accepting negotiations with the Interregional Trade Union of Autoworkers (ITUA).