...courageous group of workers in West Bengal India, who formed a trade union. Following the founding of their union, workers were harassed, assaulted by company goons and then 162 workers...
...Pakistan, Korea, and the Philippines against PepsiCo, workers in Indonesia called on PepsiCo to stop crushing a courageous group of workers in West Bengal India, who formed a trade union....
Ferrero’s state-of-the art US$125 million Kinder Joy and Tic Tac factory in India exploits over 1,400 precarious workers on minimum wages. Italian-based, family-owned Ferrero employs over 20,000 people worldwide in...
...group Solifonds issued a call for solidarity donations on behalf of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Kazakhstan. The funds are collected for the victims of the Zhanaozen massacre,...
The pay differential between the CEO and a low-paid worker at PepsiCo is now 14,055:1. CEO Indra Nooyi’s total compensation for 2013 came to USD 18.6 million – a 7%...
...group activities. A separate on-line session was organized with union representatives from Belgium, where Heinz recently announced a closure of its ketchup factory in Turnhout and transfer of production to...
...years, destroying permanent jobs in favour of precarious work in the process. IUF affiliates in Australia and New Zealand cooperate in the ‘Trans Tasman Food and Beverage group’. By sharing...
The report, based on 3 years of research and visits to 17 out of the 24 APPL plantations, also criticizes the role of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC),...
...of restructuring measures, affecting Heinz workers everywhere, not only in Europe. The local community in Belgium is organising to protest the planned closure via Facebook group “Keep Heinz...
...a group of courageous Indian workers at warehouses contracted by the company continue their struggle for their rights. Furthermore PepsiCo’s “productivity plan”, first announced in 2012, will be extended another...
February 14, 2014 International Transport Workers’ Federation and International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations today welcomed the release of research by Finnish group Finnwatch...