25 mayo, 2011OECD Guidelines for Multinational Companies are updated and improved to be extended to suppliers and for better protection of precarious workers.

21 abril, 2011At a two day international conference for shipbreaking workers, IMF affiliates called for building stronger unions of shipbreaking workers, developing a global strategy to organize, establishing a strategic link between shipbuilding and shipbreaking workers and building an international network to protect workers' rights and improve living conditions.

30 mayo, 2011UK union Unite and the Japan Council of the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF-JC) commit to building a stronger alliance to benefit workers in Japanese companies.

5 mayo, 2011IMF mission on base metals in Thailand meets with workers on organizing in TNCs and Labour Ministry official on ratification of ILO Conventions.

3 mayo, 2011In April, the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF) Africa Regional Representative, Steve Nhlapo, met with two trade unions and two staff associations representing metalworkers that have begun the process of merging, to offer support in an effort to bring Nigerian metalworkers back into the IMF family.

2 mayo, 2011Thousands of workers participated in spirited May Day celebrations organized by IMF affiliates Steel Metal and Engineering Federation of India (SMEFI), Pune Council and Indian National Metalworkers' Federation (INMF).

2 mayo, 2011IMF delegates from Latin America and the Caribbean took part in the march to commemorate Workers' Day in Mexico, in solidarity with Mexican miners and the country's independent trade union movement.

2 mayo, 2011The IMF joins with the ITUC and the global trade union movement in supporting workers in Arab countries that demonstrated to demand decent jobs, social justice and an end to repression on May Day.

2 mayo, 2011

13 septiembre, 2011ICEM and IMF renewed their global framework agreement with Umicore, the Brussels-based global materials technology group with some 14,400 employees. First signed in September 2007, the agreement has been the basis for joint union-management activities. Representatives of the company, both global union federations and the European Works Council conducted joint missions in China in 2008, in Brazil in 2009 and in South Africa in 2010 in addition to the regular monitoring activities defined in the agreement.