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

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

3 avril, 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).

3 avril, 2012Despite a ban on sandblasting announced by many brands some time ago, according to a recent report, sandblasting is still used in the production of artificially worn-out jeans. Large factories in poor countries continue using the deadly technique notorious for its health risks to workers.

3 avril, 20128,000 unionists and supporters rally in Alma, Quebec, on behalf of 780 Rio Tinto locked-out members of the United Steelworkers.

1 avril, 2012Over ten million workers supported a general national strike in Spain on March 29 called by two major union federations CC.OO and UGT.

30 mars, 2012Members of the ITUA went on strike after repeated attempts to negotiate with the company failed. VW workers at a neighbouring plant pledge solidarity.

30 mars, 2012Mr. Hasan Abazi, President of the SPMK Industrial Union, was arrrested on March 28 in the Southern Serbia while travelling to Zagreb to attend a meeting of three European trade union federations, EMF, EMCEF, ETUF-TCL.

30 mars, 2012Serious violations of workers' rights continue at Trexta in Turkey, a supplier for Apple, Nokia, Blackberry, Samsung, Dell and other electronics companies. The International Labour Rights Forum (ILRF) is mobilizing supporters to demand that Apple investigate allegations of labour rights abuses at the company, and force Trexta to reinstate workers fired for trying to form a union.