Vitasoy Australia Workers Take Industrial Action
...factory in Wodonga, Victoria. The issues that have led to a deadlock – and to the first-ever strike vote at the company – include equal pay and rights for sub-contracted...
UFCW members at Hormel Foods approve new collective agreement
...family. Nationwide, the UFCW represents 8,000 Hormel workers. The current agreement covers about 4,000 workers at the company’s facilities in Austin MN, Algona IA, Fremont NE, Beloit WI, and Atlanta...
Week of strikes at Hyatt USA
...showed that they are prepared to fight for the right to stand up for one another, union and non-union alike, wherever the company is abusing workers. Click here to view...
Dominican Republic: Protest against anti-unionism and persecution
...we are demanding, apart from the abovementioned, that the commitments that the company has made to the workers must be observed; we also demand that three comrades, who have recently...
American Crystal Sugar locks out 1,300 workers across 7 factories
...the company’s re-draft of the collective agreement. When negotiations for the renewal of the previous 7-year agreement began on May 6, the company presented proposals to radically overhaul the current...
Kraft Foods cutting jobs and stealing severance pay from BCTGM members
...visas working in a warehouse located in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, packaging products for the Hershey Company. It wasn’t until late July that the union learned of Kraft’s outrageous plan to not...
Strike by student exchange workers at US chocolate maker Hershey exposes sordid trail of outsourcing and exploitation
...the chocolate company’s headquarters in Hershey.” According to a second article in the Times, “Kirk Saville, a Hershey spokesman, said the company had also asked the contractor that operates the...
Fiji update – Military moves into sugar mills
...taking advantage of the situation to breach both the CBA and the existing labour laws. The company has recently made a unilateral decision not to pay overtime pay for but...
PepsiCo dismisses break-up suggestions
In a reaction to Speculations of a PepsiCo Split, the company has denounced such plans. According to just drinks, the company said “it has no plans to split its snacks...
Unions in Brazil and France cooperate in addressing the crisis at poultry producer Doux
...the company will not enter into discussions about the situation in Brazil. Faced with issues in both Brazil and France with a company with a poor record in industrial relations...
Speculation of PepsiCo Split
...note that there may be many options for a breakup as one global snacks company (SnacksCo) and one global beverages company (Bevsco) would likely be the best structure, given the...
Kraft Foods to split into two separate companies
...the North American company to its shareholders. The split is expected to take 12 months, with the new companies in place by the end of 2012. The new North American...