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IMF ACTION PROGRAMME
2009 - 2013

Adopted at the 32nd IMF World Congress
Gothenburg, Sweden, May 24-28, 2009

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1. OUR MISSION

2. THE WORLD TODAY

2.1. Profits over people

2.2. Unemployment and job insecurity

2.3. Unions under attack

2.4. Fundamental workers´ rights denied

2.5. Spreading influence of Transnational Corporations

2.6. World trade system in disarray

2.7. An unsustainable future

2.8. Alliances, resistance and opportunities

3. GLOBAL SOLIDARITY IN ACTION

3.1. Build strong national trade unions

3.1.1. Organise the unorganised

3.1.2. Strive for trade union unity at the national level

3.1.3. Build unions through education, training and effective exchange of information

3.2. Strengthening collective bargaining

3.3. Defend and protect workers' rights

3.3.1. Fight for trade union rights

3.3.2. Fight for Equal Rights

3.3.3. Fight for safe workplaces

3.4. Build a counterweight to the power of transnational corporations

3.4.1. Strengthening union solidarity and cooperation across sectors and TNCs

3.4.2. Advance fundamental rights through International Framework Agreements

3.5. Fight for sustainable trade, development and employment

International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) represents the collective interests of 25 million metalworkers from more than 200 unions in 100 countries. The IMF is a federation of national metalworkers’ unions, a union of unions at the world level. The IMF head office is in Geneva, Switzerland, where worldwide activities are co-ordinated with a network of regional offices.

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