13 mai, 2011A global network meeting of unions representing workers at Volvo trucks held in Sweden in May enables unions from around the world to resolve local workplace problems.

13 mai, 2011A new report finds that Foxconn is failing to improve conditions of work at its electronics manufacturing factories in China following the series of worker suicides in 2010.

12 mai, 2011The IMF Working Party on Trade, Employment and Development expresses concerns for the proliferation of Free Trade Agreement negotiations that do not put sustainable development and the creation of good jobs with respect of labour rights at the centre of trade liberalization.

7 mai, 2011One of the biggest strike actions launched in decades in Gujarat by General Motors India workers was called off on May 4. Work intensification and subsequent chronic health problems were the main issues of protesting workers.

6 mai, 2011Joint IMF-ICEM-ITGLWF task force agrees on a proposal for the financial base of a new global union federation for the world's industrial workers.

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

26 mai, 2011The principles for creating a new global union federation that unites industrial and manufacturing workers around the world were adopted by a joint executive meeting of IMF, ICEM and ITGLWF on May 25, 2011.

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

23 septembre, 2010A joint task force set up by the decision-making bodies of IMF, ICEM and ITGLWF meets in Germany to explore a process to unify the world's industrial workers into one global union federation.

23 septembre, 2010Workers protest, hold minute of silence in Spain, Colombia, Canada, Chile and Brazil after a worker died on September 5 at a Gerdau plant in Spain.