25 July, 1999Workers at Avondale Shipyard build union, despite court ruling.

25 July, 1999Workers at Ford truck plant in São Paulo fear that production will move to Bahia.

19 July, 1999For the first time the International Labour Organisation, ILO, is announcing a meeting far in advance on its website.

17 April, 2000Both Fiat and Renault are laying off workers at their car assembly factories.

13 April, 2000Romanian metalworkers' congress agrees a number of resolutions.

9 April, 2000The IMF was present at the meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the UN General Assembly.

6 April, 2000Production in all South Korean car plants has come to a standstill, as the April workers' "struggle" gets underway.

5 April, 2000World trade union leaders will discuss major issues affecting their membership in the steel industry at IMF conference.

5 April, 2000A new website -- www.global-unions.org -- to be run by the international trade union movement was launched on April 6, 2000.

4 April, 2000Negotiations collapse between steel company and union in Trinidad and Tobago.