18 septembre, 2023Inside the plant, some 700 autoworkers sit in total darkness cut off from the outside world as the last cell phone battery dies. For the past two weeks, police have blockaded food, water and medical care and attacked workers with taser guns and concentrated tear gas dropped from helicopters.

18 septembre, 2023Police officers and company security staff have entered the mine installations to seize the coal washing plant that Grupo México has supposedly sold to the businessman Rogelio Montemayor. The miners' union described the police action as an assault on legality.

18 septembre, 2023Within the framework of the IMF project to strengthen its trade union affiliates in Chile, a week of workshops focused on collective bargaining and the current labour and trade union situation of the country's workers.

18 septembre, 2023FSPMI threatens to auction company assets to pay compensation to locked-out workers for unpaid wages and possible unemployment.

18 septembre, 2023The workshop on Free Trade Agreements analysed the consequences and impact of free trade on employment and labour rights. The IMF also organised workshops on this issue in Argentina and Brazil.

18 septembre, 2023The situation for some 700 workers on strike at Toshiba Indonesia grows worse each day, but together we can win this fight for basic labour rights and working conditions at Toshiba locations worldwide. The International Metalworkers' Federation and the 25 million metalworkers we represent joins Toshiba Indonesia workers on strike in demanding that the company negotiate in good faith with FSPMI, pay all wages owed workers since April, restore health care coverage for workers on strike and reinstate all fired workers without sanction.

18 septembre, 2023FSPMI union representatives meet with Toshiba Indonesia management seeking to resolve a dispute affecting 700 workers following solidarity support from the International Metalworkers' Federation and its affiliates.

18 septembre, 2023IMF calls on affiliates to send letters of solidarity to striking Steelworkers at Vale Inco in Canada.

18 septembre, 2023A German delegation travelled to Russia to meet with the country's prime minister and Russian unions.

18 septembre, 2023International labour community urges Korean government to call off riot police and water cannons immediately and to stop using violence to resolve industrial disputes.