17 September, 2001Klaus Zwickel is the toolmaker from Heilbronn, near Stuttgart, who became president of the German IG Metall and the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF). His way of being was coined by the red sixties.
17 September, 2001The ICT companies in the so-called new economy have presented themselves as job creators, but this reputation belongs to the past. The trade unions have to make considerable efforts to strengthen their bases in companies of the ICT sector.
17 September, 2001The South African metalworkers' union calls the outcome of the dispute an unqualified success.
16 September, 2001The trade union representing DaimlerChrysler workers in Campo Largo, Brazil, is trying to save 250 jobs.
9 September, 2001IMF editors and press officers, meeting in Seoul, give their solidarity support to members of the FKMTU and KMWU, who are experiencing great difficulties due to the economic crisis and downturn.
6 September, 2001Tire and rubber workers may get support for their dispute from their colleagues in the car manufacturing industry.
3 September, 2001Over 4,300 workers at Australia's biggest carmaker call management's offer "an insult".
30 August, 2001The AMWU president describes the Australian government's policy as heartless and mean.
