6 May, 2011Joint IMF-ICEM-ITGLWF task force agrees on a proposal for the financial base of a new global union federation for the world's industrial workers.
5 May, 2011IMF mission on base metals in Thailand meets with workers on organizing in TNCs and Labour Ministry official on ratification of ILO Conventions.
3 May, 2011In April, the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF) Africa Regional Representative, Steve Nhlapo, met with two trade unions and two staff associations representing metalworkers that have begun the process of merging, to offer support in an effort to bring Nigerian metalworkers back into the IMF family.
2 May, 2011Thousands of workers participated in spirited May Day celebrations organized by IMF affiliates Steel Metal and Engineering Federation of India (SMEFI), Pune Council and Indian National Metalworkers' Federation (INMF).
2 May, 2011IMF delegates from Latin America and the Caribbean took part in the march to commemorate Workers' Day in Mexico, in solidarity with Mexican miners and the country's independent trade union movement.
2 May, 2011The IMF joins with the ITUC and the global trade union movement in supporting workers in Arab countries that demonstrated to demand decent jobs, social justice and an end to repression on May Day.
30 April, 2011On the 18 April 2011 sixteen union leaders from the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM)affiliate United Workers Union of Liberia (UWUL) and International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) affiliate Metal, Mechanical Electrical Communications and Allied Workers Union (MMECAWU) met in Monrovia to discuss the possibility of a merger and to develop a program of cooperation.
28 April, 2011The Russian parliamentary Committee for labour and social policy has approved and recommended to the chamber of deputies a bill prohibiting agency labour. The bill is submitted by the deputies Andrey Isaev (vice chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia FNPR) and Mikhail Tarasenko (chairman of the IMF affiliate Miners' and Metallurgical Workers' Union MMWU).
27 April, 2011This April 28 the International Metalworkers' Federation calls for greater empowerment of union safety representatives as they are the best means to a safer and healthier workplace.
