3 October, 2008Workers at major auto industry plants in Brazil went on strike during September in support of their demands for improved pay.
24 September, 2008Members of Unite and USW were "Workers Uniting" outside Potosh Corporation's analyst's meeting in an effort to press the company to return to the bargaining table and reach settlement.
23 September, 2008Following a wave of strikes, the South Korean government has unleashed a massive attack against the Korean Metal Workers' Union targeting more than 75 of the union's key leaders for arrest or investigation.
10 September, 2008Unions around the world pledge solidarity with the 27,000 aerospace workers who walked off the job and onto the picket line at U.S. facilities in Kansas, Oregon and Washington.
22 August, 200810,000 union members in the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia kick off latest round of IMF campaign actions against precarious work.
12 August, 2008Progress for workers falls short of China's 2001 pledge to improve labour rights, activists still face forced-labour camps, detention without trial, and state executions.
24 October, 2008New Canadian research finds a link between "precarious employment" and poor mental health.
