Special Portuguese Metal World edition

GLOBAL: In the issue, Metal World interviews Brazilian metalworkers Julio Cesar and José Pereira Miranda who speak about their experiences and the importance of the trade unions in their workplaces.

Silvia Portela de Castro reports on the project of setting up Mercosul, the common market in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, and examines the challenges trade unions face in influencing the direction of this bloc in a special report on Metalworkers and the Mercosul.

Union leader Alexei Etmanov, a trade unionist at a Ford plant in Russia, is profiled in the latest issue of Metal World. Alexei explains how a visit to Brazil in 2005 had a lasting effect on him, changing his entire concept of trade unionism.

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