Latest issue of Metal World looks in-depth at how to strengthen the labour movement

GENEVA: The International Metalworkers’ Federation launched its second issue of Metal World for 2010 today. The issue is now available for reading and download on the IMF website.

This issue of Metal World reports on the union situation in Mozambique, where IMF affiliate Sindicato Nacional dos Trabalhadores da Indústria Metalúrgica Metalomecánica e Energia – Sintime gets stronger and gains better conditions for its members through a renewed focus on organizing and collective bargaining, despite the rampant unemployment, low wages and other challenges in the country still dealing with its colonial passed.

The future of the international labour movement and the ways we can strengthen it is the subject of an interview with Sharan Burrow, recently elected General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).

The challenges of uniting the fragmented trade unions limiting their activities to plant level are described in the feature "Chile: Atomized trade unions versus trade union unity".

The back page profiles Jairo del Río, 37, who is the president of Sindicato de Trabajadores de Tubos del Caribe (SINTRATUCAR), the union organizing workers at the Tubos del Caribe plant in Cartagena, Colombia.