6 enero, 2003

19 diciembre, 2002Workers in the majority of European countries abandoned their trade unions in the 1990s. For the Finnish Metalworkers' Union the situation has been the opposite. The deep recession and mass unemployment at the start of the decade was followed by a unique increase in members, especially among young metalworkers. Metal World visited the northern outpost of Oulu, Finland's Silicon Valley.

19 diciembre, 2002Dutch electronics transnational to transfer optical storage production to Taiwan.

19 diciembre, 2002Luiz Inácio da Silva, better known as Lula, has been elected president of Brazil. IMF secretariat member Toni Ferigo gives his personal account of the former leader of the IMF metal-worker affiliate CNM-CUT.

18 diciembre, 2002The Costa Rican distributor of Mercedes-Benz fired workers who were trying to form a local of the union "ANTEP".

6 diciembre, 1999If victory is no agreement, then it is a victory for all those who went to Seattle with no intention to negotiate at all, says IMF General Secretary Marcello Malentacchi in his new column under IMF Opinion.

6 diciembre, 1999Trade unions have lost two years of hard work.

6 diciembre, 1999A new day has dawned for Avondale shipyard workers, as the company has at long last recognised their union.

4 diciembre, 1999The Swedish Metalworkers' Union has kicked out a member of the union who was pointed out as a Nazi leader.

2 diciembre, 1999In order to serve its new affiliates in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the International Metalworkers' Federation will open an office in Moscow.