International: International Metalworkers’ Federation works on new union strategy

In December 2009, the IMF’s executive committee decided to improve its strategy regarding multinationals. In particular, the federation observed that its union grid was incomplete and said that it wanted to improve its global networks (see our dispatch No. 100254). It is in this context that the first meeting of the workgroup was organized. By June, the latter should send to the IMF’s representative structures guidelines aimed to concretely improve the union’s action.
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ts global networks (see our dispatch No. 100254). It is in this context that the first meeting of the workgroup was organized. By June, the latter should send to the IMF’s representative structures guidelines aimed to concretely improve the union’s action.

Workgroup. Run by Valner Sancher, from Brazil’s CNM-CUT, the workgroup is composed of 14 members, including 12 representatives from all continents and 2 local IMF representatives, on from India and one from Latin America. these members were em

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