Number: 3-2007

Special report about challenges faced by trade unions influencing the direction of the Mercosul; Feature on metalworking sector in Brazil; and a profile on Alexei Etmanov, organizer of Ford wokers in Russia.

Metalworkers and the Mercosul

In 1991 Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay began a process of establishing a Common Market, known as Mercosul. This report examines the challenges trade unions face in influencing the direction of the Mercosul, a market in which the auto and metalworking sectors play a significant role.
Metalworking in Brazil

Participants at the IMF Central Committee, to be held in Brazil later this year, will find a very strong trade union movement particularly in the metalworking sector.
Capitalists profit at the expense of workers' health

In the spring of 2005, Alexei Etmanov went to Brazil as a member of a trade union delegation and returned to his job at a Ford plant in Russia with a totally new concept of unionism.
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21-22

Sub-Regional Meeting for South-East EuropeBelgrade, Serbia
22-23

IMF National Workshop on Changing Trends in Collective Bargaining Nagpur/Chennai, India
27-28

Conference on Implementing Action ProgramMoscow, Russia
28-30

Tenaris Global MeetingDalmine, Italy
29-30

Workshop on organising non-manual workersFrankfurt, Germany

November 2009

09-10

IMF National Workshop on Women and Trade UnionsBhubaneswar, India
11-12

Shipbuilding Action Group Meeting Vietnam
11-12

Workshop on migrant workers as precarious workersBangkok, Thailand
15-16

IMF National Workshop on Organising the UnorganizedKarachi, Pakistan
17-18

IMF National Workshop on Changing Trends in Collective BargainingColombo, Sri-Lanka
17-18

IMF-EMF Communicators' ForumFrankfurt, Germany
18-19

IMF National Workshop on Changing Trends in Collective BargainingLahore, Pakistan
23-24

Workshop on Organising workers in Export Processing ZonesSan Pedro Sula, Honduras
24-25

Siemens World MeetingFrankfurt, Germany
27-28

Workshop on Organising workers in Export Processing ZonesSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic
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