26 July, 2010Nearly 2,000 workers at 120 firms ratify union agreement for pay increases and an extra day of holidays in 2011

23 July, 2010Metalworkers' unions of the South Cone in Latin America reaffirm the importance of the Mercosur regional integration process and the need for metalworkers to play a leading role in it.

21 July, 2010IMF delegation meet with Industry and Labour Ministers to discuss the need for improving the health, safety and rights of workers in the Chittagong shipbreaking yards, where workers currently toil under intolerable conditions.

3 February, 2010International Metalworkers' Federation affiliates make donations to the recovery effort in Haiti as calls for debt relief intensify.

3 February, 2010The IMF and EMF are calling on auto components and sports equipment maker Ekoendustri to reinstate the workers immediately and respect ILO conventions 87 and 98 to which Turkey is a signatory.

1 February, 2010Building strong national trade unions is crucial. The strong unions which are in a permanent democratic relationship with workers, are capable of achieving real gains through collective bargaining, by organizing the unorganized, striving for trade union unity at the national level and building unions through training, education and effective exchange of information.

28 January, 2010European GM workers show solidarity to Antwerp Opel workers and Saab finds a new owner in Sweden.

27 January, 2010A jobless recovery is the scenario that appears from the just released ILO "Global Employment Trends 2010 Report".

5 February, 2010Global Labour University (GLU) offers Masters Programmes on sustainable development, social justice, international labour standards and trade unions, economic policies and global institutions. Deadline for applications is April 1, 2010.

26 January, 2010A campaign to discredit the Mexican miners' union has been launched in order to discourage workers from joining the union.