Unions representing poultry processing workers in the United States have spoken out strongly against a proposed new rule being promoted by the industry to replace government inspectors with industry “self-inspection”...
The IUF-affiliated Fellesforbundet has negotiated a new national collective agreement for hotel and restaurant workers, overcoming employer resistance to secure equality of treatment for temporary agency workers. The agreement guarantees...
The IUF-affiliated Fellesforbundet has negotiated a new national collective agreement for hotel and restaurant workers, overcoming employer resistance to secure equality of treatment for temporary agency workers. The agreement guarantees...
...return to work. The PCDF Trade Union expressed thanks to IUF members, especially the New Zealand Dairy Workers Union (DWU), for their support in helping to win the campaign to...
At an informal meeting in Geneva on February 24, 2012, the provisional meat sector steering group agreed on the need for a framework for coordinating global, affiliate-driven work in the...
...Kraft may be running out of room to grow revenue through raising prices. And the company has a new name to propose for the internatinal snacks division. There’s always something...
Members of New York City’s Hotel and Motel Trades Council turned out in force for a spirited action at Nestlé’s Nespressure boutique on Madison Avenue on Manhattan’s trendy Upper East...
...The newly-elected general secretary, Justiniano Buitrago, said the main challenges facing the new board will be monitoring compliance with the new collective agreement signed on 27 January with Nestle Panama...
...‘no work, no pay’ contracts, as before (see Challenging Precarious_Work @ Nestlé.Kabirwala.com). While Nestlé falsely claims to have dropped all the fabricated criminal charges it initiated against many workers, charges...
...training for rural workers; implementation of a framework for linking mechanization to the training and social situation of workers displaced through mechanization; workers’ access to rural housing and education scholarships...
...think that experience should be mirrored at all levels. As a member of the ITUC Executive Bureau, and for many years involved in the ILO Workers’ Group, I thought there...
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...