PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have spent over $330 million on campaigns involving entertainment and sports figures in 2012. Pepsi’s move is in line with its new campaign, “Live for Now,” that...
...to press other governments in the region to ratify; Mel Gatfield, assistant secretary of United Voice (New South Wales), called on the Australian government to sign in order to guarantee...
Members of the IUF-affiliated Service & Food Workers Union (SFWU) at PepsiCo’s Bluebird Foods plant in Auckland, New Zealand, voted against company proposals on reduced overtime pay rates that would...
...the first and second year. The newly negotiated contract increased vacation entitlements for new members who will now have access to 2 weeks’ vacation in their first year. It further...
November 29 saw workers at a Manhattan McDonald’s go on strike asking for higher pay and the right to form a union. Other workers joined the protest during the day....
Unite, Britain’s biggest union, is demanding assurances over jobs as a condition for any new buyer, following Vion’s announcement to sell off its UK food operations. Unite represents Vion workers...
...Ryan on November 15. The action comes on the heels of the September 27 ruling by the Ontario Labor Relations Board that management of the French-based Accor hotel group consistently...
...for workers and doesn’t apply to corporate profits.The IUF calls on Compass to respect its collective agreements with unions and immediately enter into negotiations to find agreement on protecting jobs....
...mould: Germany-based Miracoli pasta meals were sold to Mars in August and Italy-based Simmenthal canned meats to the Bolton Group, an Italian FMCG company, in September. It remains to be...
...Ving (Thomas Cook Group Pic) The violations include lack of written contracts, non-respect of working time and wage regulations, discrimination of pregnant workers, threats and union busting. In Thailand, Burmese...
...no collective agreement by then. NGG points out that Legoland, owned by the UK-based Merlin Entertainment Group, has been turning a profit over the past four years on the backs...
...for reinstatement and full back pay. TEAM has been leafletting new arrivals at the airport and at local islands from which guests are transported to the resort. And on October...