30 сентября, 2002The agreement, still to be ratified by the CAW membership, provides a more secure future for workers.

24 сентября, 2002New collective agreement provides VW workers with comparable wage hikes as for the overall metal and engineering industry.

24 сентября, 2002The IMF-affiliated AMWU has won a provisional injunction by the Federal Court against the Australian subsidiary of Trane.

23 сентября, 2002Union calls for ceiling at 30 per cent in any workplace.

22 сентября, 2002The general secretary-elect of Amicus-AEEU says "right to strike is a fundamental human right."

19 сентября, 2002Thousands protest government's attempt to curtail workers' and trade union rights.

17 сентября, 2002CAW negotiators strike tentative deal with the first of the Big Three automakers. Bargaining at DaimlerChrysler and Ford will follow.

8 сентября, 2002Italian union criticises the automaker's industrial plan, saying it is sacrificing more and more workers.

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19 декабря, 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.