18 сентября, 2023The ICFTU could be regarded as the top body for international trade union work. At the same time, it is the organisation farthest away from the working people. ICFTU's new general secretary, Guy Ryder, talks about the organisation's ambitions.

18 сентября, 2023Learning more about the realities of Muslim societies, and of Arab societies in particular, is undoubtedly a crucial part of the struggle to achieve a new world order, writes Toni Ferigo, responsible for the Maghreb region in the IMF Secretariat.

18 сентября, 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 сентября, 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 сентября, 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 сентября, 2023In the IMF's survey "The purchasing power of working time", comparisons are made between the time that has to be worked to buy food, clothing, fuel, rent, durable goods, income tax and social security in 63 countries . It's a horn of plenty.

18 сентября, 2023The technical officer who produced the post-explosion report on the Pasta de Conchos mine tells a Mexican press conference it is possible to reopen the mine to recover the bodies of the 63 miners who died on 19 February 2006.

18 сентября, 2023The latest issue of Metal World features a look at organising precarious workers in Indonesia's Export Processing Zones, a report on leveraged buyouts in the metal sector and an interview with Solidarność's Stefan Przybyszewski.

18 сентября, 2023Unions around the world pledge solidarity with the 27,000 aerospace workers who walked off the job and onto the picket line at U.S. facilities in Kansas, Oregon and Washington.

18 сентября, 2023Already challenged by restructuring in an increasingly global market, metalworkers face additional problems when private equity firms use leveraged buyouts to make quick and excessive profits, often at the expense of workers.