26 January, 2003Porto Alegre seminar discusses how old and new social movements can build alliances to fight neo-liberal globalisation.

23 January, 2003At the Trade Union Forum in Porto Alegre, which preceded the World Social Forum, the IMF asks for more substance.

21 January, 2003The International Metalworkers' Federation promotes the issue of an alternative economic programme and International Framework Agreements.

14 January, 2003A woman worker on strike outside a General Electric plant near Louisville, Kentucky, was killed as she walked the picket line.

12 January, 2003Two-day walkout is a reaction against the company's unilateral increase in employee health-care costs.

7 January, 2003IMF French affiliate FGM-CGT asks its government to intervene on behalf of the AAM and REI.

7 January, 2003The AMWU has launched a campaign for women workers in the manufacturing industry.

6 January, 2003

6 January, 2003

19 December, 2002Workers in the majority of European countries abandoned their trade unions in the 1990s. For the Finnish Metalworkers' Union the situation has been the opposite. The deep recession and mass unemployment at the start of the decade was followed by a unique increase in members, especially among young metalworkers. Metal World visited the northern outpost of Oulu, Finland's Silicon Valley.