[3] The TUI temporarily suspended activities after the collapse of communism in Europe, but re-emerged at a conference in Havana in 1998.
This organization was reformed again in 2007 adopting the name Trade Union International of Energy Workers.
The metal workers then formed a new Trade Union International of Workers in the Mining, the Metallurgy and the Metal Industries[4] The union had a controlling congress, a directing committee, a bureau and permanent secretariat.
[11] The Union published Miners International News in English, French and Spanish from 1956 until at least the late 1970s.
[14] The Union published a fortnightly called Miners of the World in French, Russian and Spanish.