Stefan Löfven, President of Sweden’s largest industrial union, IF Metall, was elected today by the Presidium of the Social Democratic Party as Chairman of the resurgent political party. Löfven was nominated yesterday, 26 January, by the party’s Executive Committee to... Read the article

An agreement was reached yesterday, 22 January, after a marathon 15-hour bargaining session between Bulgarian state-owned Maritsa East Mines (BEH-EAD) and two ICEM affiliates. The settlement ends a seven-day coalminers’ strike in Stara Zagora province that saw ICEM intervention last... Read the article

The Northern Cypriot state electric company, KIB-TEK, has begun importing workers from the Turkey-based energy company AKSA to break the civil disobedience actions of members of ICEM affiliate EL-SEN, the Turkish Electricity Authority of Cyprus Workers’ Trade Union. That started on... Read the article

On 1 January, Rio Tinto’s aluminium subsidiary Alcan threw 780 Canadian members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9490 out of work at the Alma smelter and refinery in Saguenay-lac-Saint-Jean region, Québec. The callous lockout, as reported here in this ICEM dispatch, came... Read the article

Some 80 buses and numerous car caravans converged on London, Ontario, Saturday, 21 January, in boisterous disagreement to Caterpillar Inc.’s hardened lockout of 650 members of the Canadian Auto Workers’ (CAW) union. Fair estimates placed the number of people attending the CAW... Read the article