A 40-day strike in the US state of Massachusetts has ended. Ninety brave members of the ICEM-affiliated Teamsters Union (IBT) backed Saint-Gobain’s CertainTeed subsidiary away from severe cuts to their health care plan, and ratified a five-year labour agreement by a 69-0 vote on 29... Read the article

A joint Executive Committee meeting of three European trade union federations on 31 January put the final touches on statutes, a political programme, and nominated candidates for leadership in what is to become a united eight-million-member industrial workers’ federation. The meeting,... Read the article

Tuluy Kalyoncu, the President of ICEM affiliate Turkish Electricity Authority of Cyprus Workers’ Trade Union, or EL-SEN, easily admits it: without the ironclad clenched collective fist of each and every one of his union’s 600 members, the state-run electric company, KIB-TEK, would... Read the article

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