19 janvier, 2011Following the successful strike at BHP Billiton in South Africa late last year, NUMSA has triumphed in meeting worker demands. Amongst the gains has been an important step forward in the battle to ban labour brokers.

18 janvier, 2011The International Metalworkers' Federation joins with a network of solidarity organizations in calling on its affiliates to immediately write to the Mexican authorities demanding protection of the life and integrity of labour rights advocates under threat in Mexico.

18 janvier, 2011On January 14, 2011, six representatives of the KGB turned up at the headquarters of REP, an IMF affiliate in Belarus. Having removed mobile phones of employees during the five hour search the authorities also confiscated computers, hard drives and other electronic storage media owned by the union, almost completely paralyzing the union's work.

9 décembre, 2010Numsa commences strike action at BHP Billiton in support of its demands for improved wages and conditions.

18 novembre, 2010The new issue of Metal World, No. 2 2010, examines challenges of building a strong trade union in Mozambique and creating unity in Chile, discusses the future of the international labour movement in an interview with ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow and profiles Jairo Del Rio, Colombian trade unionist and member of the Tenaris Workers' World Council.

18 novembre, 2010KMWU secures another court victory in the struggle to protect the rights to join a union and bargain collectively for in-house subcontracted workers at Hyundai Motors, who on average earn less than 50 to 60 per cent of the wages of direct employees.

17 novembre, 2010Members of the Russian parliament Andrey Isaev and Mikhail Tarasenko, president of the Mining and Metallurgical Workers' Union (MMWU), affiliated to the IMF, introduced a bill prohibiting agency labour for consideration by the Russian parliament.

17 novembre, 2010Building trade union networks, organizing workers in the auto sector and tackling the challenge of precarious work were major themes of the IMF Automotive Working Group meeting held on November 8 and 9 in Detroit.

16 novembre, 2010The future of the world of work, the dignity of labour and the rights base that workers should enjoy is only going to be driven by us," says Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary.

2 novembre, 2010Over a hundred auto parts workplaces participated in protest actions organized by IMF Canadian affiliate CAW on October 27. Auto workers protested against pressure for wage cuts and pension reduction imposed on them both by employers and the government.