17 June, 2010The UAW Convention opened with messages of optimism and despair in the face of harsh times. Newly elected president Bob King uses his acceptance speech to accuse Toyota of shifting jobs to a location where it can pay lower non union wages.
17 June, 2010The fourth Geneva Labour Film Shorts Festival showed stories of workers and their unions leading a hard fight for workers' rights and dignity.
16 June, 2010South African unions representing workers in the main industrial sectors of the country announced a National Day of Action in solidarity with workers and trade unions of Mexico
22 July, 2010Strike action continues after Indesit group announced closure of two factories and relocation of production to another area in Italy, failing to properly consult workers' representatives for all possible alternatives.
20 July, 2010Participants in a four country seminar organized by the International Metalworkers' Federation agree on three golden rules for future trade union sustainability in the South East Asia region.
24 June, 2010Workers at a Coca-Cola plant in Pakistan face violence, corruption, sleaze and increasingly criminal approaches by the plant management trying to undermine and disband the union. The management uses new tactics making jobs precarious by creating a bogus employer
23 June, 2010Approved and executed in Toronto, June 20, the joint declaration was signed by the Mexican Miners' Union (SNTMMSRM) and the United Steelworkers (USW) for a bilateral commission to be formed in order to define the process of unification of two unions.
29 July, 2010Thousands of Indonesian workers demonstrated in front of Parliament House demanding better social security protection and health insurance.
29 July, 2010KMWU seeks a special round of collective bargaining for illegal dispatch workers at Hyundai and at other automotive and manufacturing companies after a Supreme Court ruling on an unfair dismissal of an irregular worker.
29 July, 2010The Mexican Miners' Union and the Mexican Electrical Workers' Union agree to form a strong trade union front in Mexico, starting with sending a solidarity caravan to Cananea to coincide with the third anniversary of the mine workers' strike that began on July 30, 2007.
