8 June, 1999Marcello Malentacchi has written to the Korean President with two urgent requests.

7 June, 1999The goals set by the organisers were to identify the scale of the problem and assess the effectiveness of current regulations.

6 June, 1999Approximately 4,300 workers are to be laid off by Corporación Venezolana de Guayana.

6 June, 1999Its objective is to achieve closer cooperation between IMF-affiliated unions at international level.

30 May, 1999This is the first time ILO standards have been the subject of a shareholder resolution.

30 May, 1999The merger was approved in mid-April.

27 May, 1999EUROPEAN UNION: The Technical Committee of the European Union voted, on May 4, to ban chrysotile, or white asbestos, throughout the entire European Union.

3 May, 1999GENEVA: IMF General Secretary Marcello Malentacchi states that the solution for Yugoslavia is the integration of the Balkans into the European Union.

30 April, 2012The IMF and Ford signed an International Framework Agreement (IFA) in Detroit on April 25. It is the first IFA with an automotive company outside of Europe.

30 April, 2012In the International Labour Organization's annual report on global labour conditions released March 30, the UN agency predicts that European social unrest will heighten this year as governments continue to forge ahead with ill-advised austerity policies. It also forecasts that over 202 million people worldwide will be unemployed in 2012.