Kraft Foods split claims its first victims
...market gains.” Then, on November 1st Mondelez announced that the Mr. Christie’s Bakery in Etobicoke, near Toronto (Canada) would be closed, leaving 550 people out of work. The company cites...
Corporate collusion has enabled dairy executives to milk the profits
The New York Times reports that Gregg L. Engles is about to step aside as CEO of Dean Foods after years of generous paychecks as his company’s fortunes tumbled. He...
NNF strengthens its commitment to an International Agreement with Danish Crown
...The company continues to resist negotiating an agreement with the IUF over trade union rights in their operations. Talks with Danish Crown broke down in 2011 when they decided to...
Vion closes major plant in Scotland
...and their union, USDAW, that the plant would close. The company had received two acquisition offers, neither of which was considered to be “a viable and sustainable alternatives to the...
Kraft’s no Ring policy doesn’t Ring true
...In 2006, some members of BCTGM in the US were forced to have their rings cut off by a professional jeweler and many workers have never forgiven the company for...
Kraft split creates 2 cash cows, multiple challenges for unions
The long-announced split became official on October 2, but shareholders got a big surprise: it is Mondelez, not the new North American grocery company Kraft Foods Group (KRFT) which has...
FEMSA invests in the dairy industry of Mexico and Panama
...this will continue to happen until all eggs and all baskets become the property of a single trans-national company. Apparently this will be happening sooner than later. Gerardo Iglesias Rel-UITA...
Workers at Fonterra Malaysia get Organised
Several years of organizing by the Malaysian Food Workers Union (FIEU) and pressure on the company by the IUF and its affiliate the NZ Dairy Workers Union finally paid off...
Strike at Nestlé Tunisia
...talks. Rather than reply, management issued a press release on 20 July referring to recent “social unrest” at Nestlé Tunisia, a company which “has always favoured dialogue with its employees”....
IUF Dairy Division launches a global organising initiative “A Fair Deal for Dairy Workers”
...healthy working environment. In addition dairy employers will be held to account for any abuse of workers rights not only in direct employment but also throughout the company supply chain....
Union busting at Kraft/Mondelez in Egypt, Tunisia – the company responds
...urgent action campaigns on the IUF website, have caught the attention of the Business and Human Rights Resource Center (www.business-humanrights.org), which asked Kraft to respond. The company’s response was imprecise...
Nestlé Perugina: Bye-bye “generational pact”
...on September 6 between the union committee, the trade unions and the company. The unions FLAI, FAI and UILA, and the union committee emphasized that the agreement was the result...