A path to permanency

GLOBAL: To coincide with this year’s global mobilization against precarious work, the latest issue of Metal World, out now, features the struggle for permanent work in Thailand and the work of IMF Thai affiliate TEAM.

With a rich history of struggling to improve the lives of working people, the Thai labour movement is campaigning to move temporary workers to permanent jobs. IMF affiliate TEAM is playing a leading role and will also be an active participant in this year’s global week of action against precarious work.

IMF general secretary Jyrki Raina provides a summary overview of the IMF’s work over the next four years as set out in the IMF Action Programme. Organizing, collective bargaining, trade union rights, union networks and sustainable development are key areas of work as decided by the IMF Congress in May 2009.

Sinter Metal striker Lale Balta talks about her hopes that an eventual victory will inspire workers throughout Turkey to stand up and defend their right to join a union.