International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF)

Raising issue of rights violations in Mexico at EU/LAC Summit

Ongoing trade union rights violations of miners at the hands of the Mexican Government and mining company Grupo México have called for the EMF and IMF to approch members of the European Parliament.

International Workers' Memorial Day

28 April is International Workers' Memorial Day.

Workers' Memorial Day is an opportunity to highlight the preventable nature of most workplace accidents and ill health and to promote campaigns and union organisation in the fight for improvements in workplace safety.

Murder, Manipulation and Malpractice in Mexican Multinational

Press release from the International Metalworkers’ Federation
Attached in Spanish.

A delegation of Mexican trade unionists will be in Brussels this week to explain and present evidence to the European Commission on how independent Mexican trade unions have been a target of government repression. The Calderon Government and the mining company Grupo Mexico has continued a full scale attack, initiated by the Fox Government, on the National Union of Mine and Metal Workers (SNTMMSRM) and its General Secretary, Napoleón Gómez Urrutia.

12th International Day of 28th April to commemorate dead and injured workers

The EMF supports the global union campaign OCCUPATIONAL CANCER/ZERO CANCER.

Information and campaign material in English, French and Spanish can be found in this file.

International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF)