24 November, 2009Workers from unions represented by the Gerdau Global Workers' Committee distributed leaflets at Gerdau Group plants, organised meetings and held marches and demonstrations throughout the world on its international day of struggle on November 18.
22 October, 2009BML and the IMF call for an end to barbaric deaths in the shipbreaking yards in Bangladesh after seven workers die in one week.
14 December, 2009European trade unions highlight atrocities committed against Colombian trade unionists and discuss negative impacts of a potential EU-Colombia trade deal.
11 December, 2009Two new fatalities happened at Tuzla shipyards in Turkey. Limter İş is calling the deaths occupational murder and is demanding employers and the Turkish Ministry of Labour take adequate measures.
10 December, 2009Announcing a labour approach to tackling Climate Change, the Global Unions have produced a joint publication, "Green Growth for jobs and social justice"
9 December, 2009At the Regional Planning Seminar on Mining, held in Santiago, Chile, affiliates from Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Peru agreed a programme of action on employment and trade union conditions in the mining sector.
2 December, 2009Trade unions are concerned with the reluctance of the participants of the WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva to recognise linkage between trade, jobs and global crisis.
1 December, 2009The latest issue of Metal World, published online December 1, calls attention to the upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen, features engineers at Astrium staying at the cutting edge of technology to tackle climate change, and profiles union activist Ainur Kurmanov's struggle in Kazakhstan.
