26 января, 2003Porto Alegre seminar discusses how old and new social movements can build alliances to fight neo-liberal globalisation.
23 января, 2003At the Trade Union Forum in Porto Alegre, which preceded the World Social Forum, the IMF asks for more substance.
21 января, 2003The International Metalworkers' Federation promotes the issue of an alternative economic programme and International Framework Agreements.
14 января, 2003A woman worker on strike outside a General Electric plant near Louisville, Kentucky, was killed as she walked the picket line.
12 января, 2003Two-day walkout is a reaction against the company's unilateral increase in employee health-care costs.
7 января, 2003IMF French affiliate FGM-CGT asks its government to intervene on behalf of the AAM and REI.
19 декабря, 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.
