2 November, 2010Immediately following a 99.9 per cent contract rejection and intent-to-strike vote on 27 October, the union representing copper miners at Chile's Doña Ines de Collahuasi and management called for a five-day government mediation period. If unsuccessful, a strike by 1,550 permanent workers at Collahuasi in northern Chile's Region I could begin late this week.
10 August, 2009Unions call for secure jobs as a central strategy to securing the future of the shipbuilding industry beyond the current crisis.
6 August, 2009International trade union representatives are visiting Honduras in solidarity with the Honduran people to verify rights violations and demand the restoration of democracy and a return to constitutional order.
6 August, 2009Demanding the payment of previously agreed wage rises and equal pay for equal work, precarious workers, trainees and permanent employees are taking united action at Bosch and Brembo plants in Pune, India.
6 August, 2009Hans Mayr, former President of the International Metalworkers' Federation, died on August 3, 2009 aged 87.
5 August, 2009The committee is asking for a meeting with the company to discuss plant closures and union participation in safety policy at the global level.
5 August, 2009Police officers and company security staff have entered the mine installations to seize the coal washing plant that Grupo México has supposedly sold to the businessman Rogelio Montemayor. The miners' union described the police action as an assault on legality.
5 August, 2009Concern for the lives of 700 autoworkers inside the plant grow as reports come in that parts of the plant near the highly explosive paint shop are on fire, workers trying to flee the fire are being beaten by SWAT team forces.
4 August, 2009Inside the plant, some 700 autoworkers sit in total darkness cut off from the outside world as the last cell phone battery dies. For the past two weeks, police have blockaded food, water and medical care and attacked workers with taser guns and concentrated tear gas dropped from helicopters.
3 August, 2009The workshop on Free Trade Agreements analysed the consequences and impact of free trade on employment and labour rights. The IMF also organised workshops on this issue in Argentina and Brazil.
