3 juin, 2010ICEM with IMF & UNI hold Mexico 'Teach-In' on June 20 in Toronto, Canada to raise solidarity with and understanding of the struggle by democratic trade unions in Mexico.

2 juin, 2010A representative from a Brazilian missionary group and shareholder of Vale SA, expressed his concerns at the Vale shareholder meeting in Rio de Janeiro on 19 May. Vale's executives not only discarded his concerns they also refused to have them documented in the meeting's minutes.

4 juin, 2010While announcing results outlook for the highest operating margins in eight years at their annual general meeting in Paris, multi-billion dollar automotive components transnational Valeo cuts off water and electricity supplies to the Cheonan plant in South Korea where about 100 workers are protesting unilateral plant closure.

2 novembre, 2011After a more than year-long bitter struggle, the Indonesian labour movement won the fight to reform the social security system, under the banner of the Social Security Action Committee (KAJS).

2 novembre, 2011São Paulo metalworkers in the CNTM plan to strike unless employers make a new offer on pay and other demands by November 4.

28 octobre, 2011IMF affiliates from Central and Eastern Europe met in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 26-27, 2011 for the Regional Conference and Women's Workshop. They discussed pay gap between working men and women, women's participation in the new organization, the process of creating the new federation and cases of union rights violations in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Ukraine and other countries in the region.

27 octobre, 2011Unions should more actively organize young non-manual workers and students, and use social media as a powerful tool to connect youth and union leaders.

26 octobre, 2011Billed as a lead up to World Day for Decent Work, the Canadian Auto Workers union recently hosted two "Good Jobs Bad Jobs" round tables with visiting union delegations from Denmark and South Africa.

25 octobre, 2011The strike in the Finnish metal sector ended October 25 when the Metalworkers' Union and the salaried employees' union Pro approved the conciliation proposal of the State conciliator. YTN has not yet renewed its agreement. A strike of professional and managerial staff still threatens in the metal industry.

22 septembre, 2011After 23 months of resistance, the Mexican Electricians' union SME, that staged for over 7 months a protest camp at the central plaza in Mexico City, the "Zocalo", won it's show-down with the government of Calderon in the run-up to Mexico's Independence day, September 16, Mexico's most important national holiday.