18 September, 2023Workers of the Zaporozhye Ferroalloy Plant in Eastern Ukraine picketed in front of the government office in Kiev protesting against job cuts at the plant. Their union works closely with local and national authorities to find a solution to the acute jobs crisis.
18 September, 2023The Hungarian Metalworkers federation VASAS denounces the proposed new labour code the Hungarian government is currently drawing up. A demonstration is called by trade unions on October 1 in front of the Parliament in Budapest.
18 September, 2023Indonesian unions and NGOs gathered at the end of September 2011 to step up their fight against contract and agency labour in Indonesia.
18 September, 2023Caterpillar, the industrial equipment giant, increased its flexible workforce by 50% between June 2010 and June 2011
18 September, 2023Indonesian union leaders met for a strategy and planning meeting in Jakarta, and agreed on a joint organizing plan. Through a project supported by SASK 6000 workers should be recruited to FSPMI and Lomenik during 2011.
18 September, 202340 trade unionists representing workers at Tenaris facilities in Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Italy, Japan and Romania met in Zalau, Romania on September 21-23. For the first time since its creation in 2007 in Argentina, Japanese delegates attended.
18 September, 2023Early September, Honda workers in Mexico obtained legal recognition to register STUHM (Sindicato de Trabajadores Unidos de la Honda de Mexico) as their union. The company opposes the organization and prefers the protection union that has blocked independent unions at the Honda site in Jalisco, Mexico for 26 years. Honda workers now denounce the company's continued repression and intimidation against the union and the workers wanting to join.
18 September, 2023After 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.
18 September, 2023On September 20 the Swedish metalworkers' union IF Metall filed a bankruptcy petition against the ailing Swedish automaker SAAB at the local district court. The decision was taken unanimously at a video conference meeting of the IF Metall office, the Trollhättan local and the SAAB section.
18 September, 2023Joint IMF-ICEM-ITGLWF working groups make progress on the Statutes and Action Plan for the new global union federation at the meetings on August 30-31 in Geneva.
