18 September, 2023In November 2001, the 30th IMF World Congress will take place in Sydney, Australia. One of the problems in Australia today is the decline of industry. The massive attack on jobs in the manufacturing industry is also taking its toll on union membership.
18 September, 2023Klaus Zwickel is the toolmaker from Heilbronn, near Stuttgart, who became president of the German IG Metall and the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF). His way of being was coined by the red sixties.
18 September, 2023The ICT companies in the so-called new economy have presented themselves as job creators, but this reputation belongs to the past. The trade unions have to make considerable efforts to strengthen their bases in companies of the ICT sector.
18 September, 2023A trade union president, in protest at company abuse of workers' rights, is now in his fifteenth day of hunger strike.
18 September, 2023Australian workers show their concern over possible repercussions on jobs following merger.
18 September, 2023The IMF-affiliated Iron and Steel Trades Confederation is campaigning hard to save steelworkers' jobs.
18 September, 2023The IMF says it is urgent for the global labour movement to take a united approach in order to effectively oppose the ill effects of globalisation on its members.
18 September, 2023The following is a short report of the USWA international conference on aluminium, held in Las Vagas on March 5-7, 2001.
