18 September, 2023Following reports of harassment and intimidation by IBM management of workers involved in trade union activities at IBM Bulgaria, EMF, IMF and UNI send joint letter to company.
18 September, 2023The United Steelworkers reach a tentative five year agreement with Brazilian mining giant Vale in Canada. The union has scheduled ratification votes in Sudbury and Port Colborne.
18 September, 2023IF Metall and IMF visit Electrolux management in Thailand, opening the door for union organizing at the two plants.
18 September, 2023Unions in North America unite in a strategy to build solidarity with trade unions struggling for autonomy in Mexico.
18 September, 2023New Zealand unions protest Mexican government's use of force against striking workers by delivering a letter to the Mexican embassy.
18 September, 2023Delegates from around the world gathered at the second World Congress of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to promote peace, non-violence and gender equality around the globe. At the conclusion of the Congress delegates elected their first female General Secretary, Sharan Burrow.
18 September, 2023Approved and executed in Toronto, June 20, the joint declaration was signed by the Mexican Miners' Union (SNTMMSRM) and the United Steelworkers (USW) for a bilateral commission to be formed in order to define the process of unification of two unions.
18 September, 2023Workers at a Coca-Cola plant in Pakistan face violence, corruption, sleaze and increasingly criminal approaches by the plant management trying to undermine and disband the union. The management uses new tactics making jobs precarious by creating a bogus employer
18 September, 2023Union members at the Hyundai plant in Chennai, India continue their struggle for recognition by management and for the reinstatement of workers that were dismissed following the establishment of the Hyundai Motor India Employees' Union in early 2007.
18 September, 2023Meeting in Toronto on 19 June, 270 national trade union leaders from 50 countries put forward a stern Declaration to the G8 and G20 that a radically changed global social order must occur, one prioritizing security of employment and preservation of the environment. The Declaration, pointed at the G8 and G20 summits this week in Toronto, came from a "Triple Crisis of Sustainability" forum, a meeting of union leaders representing 55 million workers from industrial and manufacturing sectors.
