Lockout continues at Talley’s/AFFCO while NZMWU plans more strikes
Since Talley’s vicious lockout of 1,000 unionized workers at 6 of the company’s 8 Affco meat plants in the North Island of New Zealand, all 8 plants have been hit...
Nestlé’s ‘New Reality’ looks a lot like the old – squeezing workers to squeeze out cash
...on the squalid exploitation of many hundreds of casual workers (the company calls them “contractors”) working on a no work, no pay basis, performing the same jobs for years as...
Danish Crown UK management shuts out workers, uses coercion to get them to go quietly
...Tulip Group.” The announcement triggered a 90-day consultation period in which the company must justify its plans, provide the union with any data it demands and give good faith consideration...
Nestlé UK shop stewards say Stop Nespressure!
...their rights?” Their letter reminds Nestlé that the company’s actions in these two conflicts are “generating enormous concern with the wider trade union movement in the UK, with some branches...
International unions call for action over attacks on workers in New Zealand
...the care home company Oceania and members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and the Service and Food Workers Union, Nga Ringa Tota (SFWU). At stake is whether Oceania...
Workers rally across Indonesia on International Women’s Day to say Stop Nespressure!
...singer Acil Bimbo of the popular group Bimbo addressed the rally, saying “Shame on Nestlé” and evoking a consumer backlash as more and more Indonesians learn of the company’s brutal...
One Thousand New Zealand Meat Workers Locked-Out at Talleys/AFFCO
...company’s 8 plants in the North Island of New Zealand. Tell AFFCO and its parent company Talley’s to lift the lockout! The New Zealand Meat Workers Union has been in...
Women workers win 200 permanent jobs at Lampung’s biggest seafood processing factory
...employment for 200 union members. The factory, which is owned by the US-based company Phillips Foods Inc., employs 1,900 workers, of which 96% are women and 100% are on temporary...
Settlement ends 65 day lockout at Grenada Breweries
...The union has thanked the many thousands of supporters, notably IUF members, who sent messages to the company in support of the IUF campaign urging the company to resume negotiations....
Carlsberg Lithuania – ‘worst excuse in the world’ for union busting
...lawyers were well rewarded for their services. And the company’s statement to Just Drinks that they will “fully follow the decision of the court” is misleading, to say the least....
Accor continues to attack basic rights of pro-union workers in Ontario, Canada
...strong majority support for union representation by signing union cards, Accor has disciplined, suspended and sacked workers for simply talking about the union on their breaks anywhere on company property....
International Women’s Day 2012 – Good Food, Good Life for Women at Nestlé?
...trade unionists at Nestlé. Good Food, Good Life? Close the Pay Gap at Nestlé! Nestlé pays lip service to equality of treatment, pay equity and what the company calls “gender...