6 janvier, 2003

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

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

16 décembre, 2002In Marcello Malentacchi's just-published opinion column, he describes the IMF Executive Committee's recent visit to the maquiladoras of northern Mexico.

15 décembre, 2002Shipyard workers who were fired for refusing to resign their membership in Dok-Gemi-Is win legal fight for compensation.

11 décembre, 2002The nine trade union leaders were detained while attending a symposium of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions.

1 juin, 2003Hundreds of thousands of trade union members expected to strike over government attempts to increase retirement age.

27 mai, 2003Vital issues which could help the world's afflicted populations will undoubtedly not be on meeting agenda.