20 May, 2001Ilkka Joenpalo will preside the newly-merged Finnish white-collar union, whose membership is made up of 48 per cent women.

19 May, 2001IMF website covers the work of the 30th IMF World Congress.

1 March, 2001The major shareholder of the Japanese car maker is DaimlerChrysler.

1 March, 2001Negotiations to conclude a collective contract with the Matsushita Air-Conditioning Group of Companies in Malaysia are deadlocked.

28 February, 2001KOVO will halt traffic on the busiest border crossings between the Slovak Republic and its neighbours.

28 February, 2001Leo Gerard has become the seventh international president of the 700,000-member steelworkers' union.

27 February, 2001The Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union is staging a demonstration in Sydney in protest at heavy-handed police repression of autoworkers in Korea.

21 February, 2001José Domingos Cardoso, nicknamed "Ferreirinha," has passed away after an illness of several months.

20 February, 2001Philips workers from 18 countries have discussed joint trade union strategies.

19 February, 2001This resolution was adopted at a workers' protest meeting in Minsk on February 14, 2001.