2 November, 2010Oppression of the 30,000 technical and professional employees of PEMEX, Mexico's state-owned petroleum company, continued on October 22 when the General Secretary of Local 1 of the National Union of Technical and Professional Petroleum Workers (UNTyPP) was given "forced retirement."

26 September, 2010IMF affiliates from African and European countries and the EMF analyze the impact of the EU trade policy on development and assess the future of industrialization in Africa.

23 September, 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 September, 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.

22 September, 2010Metalicy holds traditional sports games on September 1 to 5, 2010 under the motto "Mobilizing globally against precarious work".

22 September, 2010PRO-GE to demand wage increases and reductions in working time in the forthcoming round of collective bargaining for 165,000 workers in the metal sector.

22 September, 201085,000 German steel workers and members of IMF affiliate IG Metall start warning strikes in support of their collective bargaining demands for a six per cent wage increase and equal treatment of agency workers.

22 September, 2010Prominent global network of legal experts calls on Mexican Supreme Court to respect mineworkers' union autonomy.

21 September, 2010Meeting in Gothenburg, union members of the SKF World Union Committee reported that measures negotiated with management enabled redundancies to be avoided through the economic crisis.

30 September, 2010A short term diploma course on Labour Policies and Globalization will take place in Germany from April 1 until September 30, 2011. Trade unionists and labour movement activists are invited to apply for admission to this programme by no later than November 1, 2010.