IMF NewsBriefs No. 05, March 11, 2010

• IMF Engages in Developing Union Networks

• Women Hit Hard By Financial Crisis

• IMF Precarious Work Video Runner Up in Competition

• Mediated Talks at Vale Breakdown

• Women Demand Equality this IWD

• Samsung Called to Account for Semiconductor Cancer Deaths

• Court Delays Hearings on Sinter Metal

• Foxconn Dismisses Workers After Protest

• Jobs Secured at Automotive Lighting in Germany

• IMF and FES Consilidate Unions in Kazakhstan

• Engagaging Qualified Workers in Trade Union Work

• Philips: Bosses Feast While Workers Fast

IMF NewsBriefs No. 04, February 25, 2010

• IMF Explores Impacts of Free Trade Agreements

• Tenaris Workers in Solidarity in Columbia

• Metalworkers, Miners and Maritime Workers Unite

• Bosch Workers Protest to Defend Jobs

• IG Metall Secures Jobs

• GIKIL Pays Back Wages to Bosnian Workers

• 65 Dead Remembered as Cananea Dispute Continues

• Job Security Agreement Extended at VW

• Protests Grow Against Expulsion of Migrants From Thailand

• ICEM, IMF Urge Restraint by Mexico at Cananea Copper Mine

IMF NewsBriefs No. 03, February 11, 2010

• Turkish Metalworkers Fired for Union Organizing

• 4th Annual Geneva Labour Film Shorts Festival

• ICEM/IMF Survey Shows Precarious Work Still Growing

• Court Orders Leoni to Reinstate Union Leader in Ukraine

• Prosecutor's Office Fails to Do Justice in Russia

• Strike at Automotive Lighting in Reutlingen

• GLU Invites Masters Programmes Applicants

• Empowering Migrant Women in Mumbai Shipyards

• Give Haiti Debt Relief

• ArcelorMittal Fatality Rate Unacceptably High

• Workers Denied Drinking Water

IMF NewsBriefs No. 02, January 28, 2010

OPEL WORKERS IN SOLIDARITY
European GM workers show solidarity to Antwerp Opel workers and Saab finds a new owner in Sweden

ILO: DECISIVENESS THAT SAVED BANKS IS NEEDED TO SAVE AND CREATE JOBS
A jobless recovery is the scenario that appears from the just released ILO "Global Employment Trends 2010 Report".

WORKERS AT JOHNSON CONTROLS IN PUEBLA WANT TO JOIN MINERS' UNION
A campaign to discredit the Mexican miners' union has been launched in order to discourage workers from joining the union.

ICEM, IMF DECRY MITTAL'S PAY DELINQUENCIES IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
Defending coke-chemical workers' protests against pay rates well below minimum wage levels and concerns about occukpational cancer.

WSF CELEBRATES TEN YEARS
At a World Social Forum event in Porto Alegre in January 2010, civil society groups will seek alternatives to neo-liberal policies and reflect on ten years of work.

GLOBAL LABOUR AUDIOCAST STARTS SOON
International labour news audiocasts start on the internet in February 2010.

CAW FIGHTS PROPOSED XSTRATA PLANT CLOSURES
Canadian miners are protesting the Swiss mining company's plans to close its copper and zinc operations, calling on government to intervene.

TENARIS: RESOLUTION IN ITALY, STRIKE IN ARGENTINA
Tenaris workers reach favourable agreement in Italy, but take strike action in Argentina following the sacking of 23 workers, reports the Tenaris Workers' World Council.

INDEPENDENT UNIONS DISCUSS JOINT STRATEGIES IN BELARUS
Participants of the REPAM-SPM joint seminar in Belarus examined both the external and internal threats to union development, discussed lack of protection and networking methods in union activities.

HUMANITARIAN APPEAL FOR HAITI
IMF Encourages affiliates to support ITUC appeal for Haiti.

UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR HEARS UNIONS' CONCERN
Shipbreaking workers in India explain the terrible conditions and struggle they face each day.

LABOUR RIGHTS GROUPS PROTEST GOLD PEAK'S PERFORMANCE
Chinese battery producer Gold Peak Industrial Holding Ltd under fire by Chinese and International labour groups for failing to be decent employer.

ORGANIZING INDIAN STEEL WORKERS
Union leaders shocked by safety standards in Indian steel plant as IMF project to organise 20,000 steel workers in India commences.

LIMITLESS WORK ON THE RISE
The boundary between work and private life is getting more and more blurred.

ORGANIZING 31 MILLION JOBLESS AMERICANS
IAM and partners launch Ur Union of Unemployed - nicknamed UCubed - to assist the more than 31 million jobless Americans, click here to see. 

IMF NewsBriefs, No. 01, January 14, 2010

• Vale Strike Enters Seventh Month

• Rebuilding a Worker-Friendly Steel Sector in 2010

• Working towards a binding agreement at COP16

• Save Saab in Sweden

• IMF Delegation Meets with Shop Stewards from Sonasid/ArcelorMittal Production Units in Morocco

• Unions in Belgium Increase Their Strength Through Merger

IMF NewsBriefs No. 20, December 17, 2009

• IMF Executive Discusses Plans for 2010
• Safeguarding Agreement Achieved at Daimler in Sindelfingen
• Trade Unions Demand a Bigger Say in Building Future Auto Industry
• Constructive Relationship Agreement with Thales Australia
• Unions at Siemens in India:  Need to Cooperate
• Unions Hold Hearings Against Proposed EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
• Workers Die at Tuzla Shipyards
• Global Unions Promote Green Growth for Jobs and Social Justice
• Latin American Trade Union Network of Miners' Affiliates
• Breakthrough at Honda Motor Argentina
• Unions to Vale:  You Can Run But You Can't Hide

IMF NewsBriefs No. 18, November 19, 2009

• Effective Global Union Communication
• Neil Kearney, ITGLWF General Secretary Has Died
• Unions Shame Vale CFO in Madrid and Protest in Seoul
• EMF Lauches Common Demand on Precarious Work
• Court Suspends Decision on Sinter Metal Case Until Mark
• Unions Commit to Action for Migrant Workers' Rights
• Exemplary Agreement With Worker Owned Cooperative
• Unions Picket Vale Investors in London
• Fighting for Decent Work is 'Extremism'

IMF NewsBriefs No. 17, November 05, 2009

• IMF and EMF Call for Financial Solidarity for Turkish Metalworkers
• Shop Stewards Discuss Communication Networks in Morocco
• Global Campaign Against Vale Gaining Momentum
• Bosch and Brembo Workers in India Make Gains
• Global Labour Charter Signed with VW
• Union Leaders Discuss Organizing and Labour Rights in Moscow
• Labour Photo of the Year
• Italian Unions Divided Over Agreement
• PhD Scholarships at International Center for Development and Decent Work
• IMF to Mainstream Organizing Non-manual Workers

IMF NewsBriefs No. 16, October 22, 2009

• Cut Emissions and Transform Jobs
• Seven Shipbreaking Workers Die in One Week
• Gerdau Global Workers' Committee Protests at Chile Factory
• Gerdau Workers Strengthen Global Committee
• ArcelorMittal:  Unions Praised by Industrialist
• Renewed Hope for Cochlear Workers
• Mexican Government Attempts to Bust Electrical Workers' Union
• Identifying IMF's Priorities in Africa
• AFW and ITUA Sign an Agreement With VW Management
• Italian Metalworkers Strike for Eight Hours
• IMF Joins Global Effort in Support of Bangladeshi Shipbreakers

IMF NewsBriefs No. 15, October 08, 2009

• Thousands Take Action Against Precarious Work
• Global Forum to Debate Integrating Migration and Development Goals
• International Machinists Discuss Communications for the 21st Century
• Secure Jobs are the Answer to Crisis
• Gerdau Tries to Close Another Plant in Colombia
• Global Unions Supporting Thai Workers' October 7 Actions
• New Report Shows Disadvantage Faced by Migrant Workers in the Metal Industry
• Unions Rise to Challenge of EPZ Organising
• New Collective Agreement for Volkswagen AG, Germany
• Every Fourth Autovaz Worker Will Lose His/Her Job
• Say NO to More Rights for "Private Labour Offices" in Turkey
• Prominent Workers' Rights Activist Attacked in Kazakhstan
• Brazilian Metalworkers Win Major Gains in Annual Pay Round

IMF NewsBriefs No. 14, September 24, 2009

• Industrial Unions Demand Jobs Focus at G20 Meeting
• A to Z: Action Against Precarious Work
• GM Workers Across Europe Mobilise in Antwerp
• Bosch and Brembo Workers Remain United
• A Path to Permanency
• IMF: Building Strong Unions
• Global Support to Vale Workers in Canada
• Leader of Colombian Union Sintratucar Receives Death Threats
• Jobs Saved at Fiat Plant
• Subcontracting in Brazil
• Mexican Miners Reach Agreement With ArcelorMittal

IMF NewsBriefs No. 13, September 9, 2009

• Unions Mobilizing Against Precarious Work
• Cutting Emissions, Transforming Jobs
• It's Business as Usual: The World Bank says that increased social protection schemes are anti-business
• German Metalworkers Call for Secure Jobs
• SKF Workers Tackling Financial Crisis Together
• Global Union Network at Tata Steel Established
• Thousands Lose Jobs as Toyota Closes Plant in California
• Making the Global Jobs Pact Real

IMF NewsBriefs No. 12, August 27, 2009

• Dispute at Toshiba Indonesia Resolved
• IMF-EMF Communicators to Debate Global Union Campaigning
• Greening America With Good Jobs
• Protecting Labour Rights in World Bank Funded Projects
• Improving OHS at ArcelorMittal
• IG Metall Demands a Return to Secure Jobs
• Putting a Stop to Precarious Work in Europe
• Strike at ArcelorMittal, Mexico
• Zimbabwean Metalworkers Campaign for Payment of Wage Increases
• Six Die at Shipbreaking Yard in India

IMF NewsBriefs No. 11, August 13, 2009

• Agreement Reached, Ssangyong Motor Sit-in Strikers Jailed
• Put Permanent Jobs First!
• Court Delays Sinter Metal Judgement
• Trade Union Solidarity Mission to Honduras
• Bosch and Brembo Workers on Strike in India
• In Memoriam: Hans Mayr
• Workers Evicted at Pasta de Conchos
• Impact of FTAs on Chile

IMF NewsBriefs No. 10, July 30, 2009

• Sit-in Strike Intensifies as Police Surround Ssangyong Motor
• FSPMI Meets With Toshiba Indonesia Management
• Strengthening Trade Unions in Chile
• FSPMI Pursues Unpaid Wages at Motocycle Factory in Indonesia
• Support Striking Workers at Vale in Canada
• IMF Raises Rights Abuse Issues With Putin
• Demanding Justice at Pasta de Conchos
• Mexican Government Must Cease Attacks on Mineworkers

IMF NewsBriefs No. 09, July 08, 2009

• IMF Creates Strike Fund for Indonesian Toshiba Workers
• Solidarity Mission in Mexico
• IMF Congress Highlights Featured in the Latest Issue of Metal World
• Metalworker Unions in Asia United in Fight for Job Security
• Strike Ends at Kawasaki, Thailand
• German Unions Call for a Sustainable Response to Crisis
• Affiliates Increase Pressure on Sinter Metal
• The Honduran People Resist
• Improving Occupational Health and Safety in the Balkans
• Sidelpa Closure Puts 400 Out of Work

IMF NewsBriefs No. 08, June 30, 2009

• Parliamentary Delegation to Visit Mexico
• Trade Unions at Fiat Group Pursue Global Action
• IMF's Union Roadshow Screened at Film Festival
• Workers Call on ILO to Improve Rights of Precarious Workers
• IMF Argues Against Job Losses at OECD Steel Committee

IMF NewsBriefs No. 07, June 11, 2009

• A REAL CHALLENGE TO NEO-LIBERALISM
• FINANCIAL CRISIS INTENSIFIES ATTACKS ON WORKERS' RIGHTS
• PRECARIOUS WORK IS FOCUS OF 2009 LABOUR FILM FESTIVAL
• RENOWNED SOCIAL ACTIVIST ASSASSINATED IN MEXICO
• STRENGTH LIES IN UNITY, NOT DIVISION
• STOP EXPLOITATION OF SHIPBREAKING WORKERS
• OPENNESS, DEMOCRACY AND PARTICIPATION OF ALL
• CONGRESS ELECTS NEW LEADERSHIP
• IMF FORD NETWORK BUILD CROSS-BORDER SOLIDARITY
• ELECTRONICS COMPANIES URGED TO RECOGNISE WORKERS' RIGHT TO UNIONISE
• UNION GAINS AS HYUNDAI INDIA STRIKE ENDS
• RIGHTS ABUSES ESCALATE AT TOSHIBA INDONESIA

IMF NewsBriefs No. 06, April 30, 2009

• May Day Celebration is Important!
• Surprise: Labour Market Deregulation is No Recipe for Development!
• New Congress Reports Now Available
• IMF Congress to Debate the Big Issues for Metalworkers
• Indian Autoworkers Strike Hyundai
• Computer Gian Pushes Limits With New Offshoring Trend
• Court Rules that Cananea Can Dismiss Miners
• Hungarian Trade Unions to Hold Massive Financial Crisis Demonstration

IMF NewsBriefs No. 05, April 15, 2009

• IMF, EMF Launch Joint Campaign for Turkish Sinter Metal Workers
• Climate Change- Taking the Power Back
• Protests Over Closure of Kremikovtzi Plant Continue
• Indian Shipbreaking Workers Win Strike
• New Metal World is Out Now
• Global Unions Provide Strategies for Recovery
• Mexican Miners' Union Leader Wins Injunction Against Arrest Warrants
• Workshop on Precarious Employment Urges Action as Financial Crisis Hits Women, Families Hardest
• Japanese Spring Offensive Negotiations Counter Impacts of Financial Crisis

IMF NewsBriefs No. 04, March 24, 2009

• Tenaris International Day of Action
• Miner’s Union Wants Company Negligence to be Punishable by Law
• Workers of Zlatoust Steel Plant Restarted Their Hunger Strike
• Indonesian Sisters Jailed for Fighting Against Precarious Employment
• Metalicy Renews Protests Against Kremikovtzi Plant Closure
• IMF Summer School Invites Applicants
• IMF Highlights Societal Impacts of Women's Precarious Work
• IMF Calls for Reinstatement of OECD Monitoring Process in Korea

IMF NewsBriefs No. 03, March 02, 2009

• IMF World Congress Preparations Underway
• Workers in Ukraine Seize Their Plant
• GLU Launches New International Programs on Labour and Globalisation
• Anti-Asbestos Campaign Continues with Opening of Bernie Banton Asbestos Research Centre
• Indonesian Workers Auction Factory Assets, Regain Unpaid Wages
• IMF Executive Discuss Global Crisis and the Automotive Industry

IMF NewsBriefs No. 02, February 13, 2009

• IMF and Affiliates Take Stand Against Attacks on Russian Unionists
• Indonesian Company Manager Imprisoned for Union-busting
• IMF Lodges Unprecedented ILO Complaint
• ArcelorMittal Workers Protest Job Cuts
• Finnish Metalworkers' Union Vote on Merger
• French Unions Launch Massive Strikes
• Creating Sustainable Employment is Key to Crisis Recovery
• "The workers should not pay for the crisis"
• Korean Metalworkers Show Solidarity in Tough Times

IMF NewsBriefs No. 01, January 23, 2009

• Geneva Labour Film Shorts Festival Calls for Submissions
• Global Unions Push for Action on Mexico
• Humanitarian Disaster in Gaza
• Siderperu (Gerdau) Workers Still Not Reinstated
• Wave of Sackings in the Peruvian Mining Sector
• Accident at Grupo Mexico Mine Leaves at Least One Fatality
• Turkish Metalworkers Fired For Union Actions

IMF NewsBriefs No. 09, June 11, 2008

• ArcelorMittal & Unions Sign Groundbreaking Global Agreement on Occupational Health and Safety
• GM Threatens Plant Closures
• Korean Shipyard Workers Fight for Job Safety
• Latest Metal World Out Now!
• Strike Ends at American Axle
• Affiliates Prepare to Take Action Against Precarious Work
• International Solidarity With Mexican Miners Continues