Thailand: Reinstate KFC union activists now!
...a message to Yum! Thailand demanding that the three workers be immediately reinstated, and that the company stop intimidating workers and enter into negotiations with the union in good faith....
Heinz celebrates biggest profit jump ever with… mass layoffs
...lose beetroot and sauces production and some meals production to the Heinz facility in Hastings in New Zealand. Heinz will presumably decide later which other factories are slated for destruction....
Dairy Division Research project completes Fonterra, Nestle and NZ Dairy Sector research. Danone, Arla and Lactalis next corporate research targets.
Following the October 18-19 2010 meeting of the IUF Dairy Division leadership group in San Francisco and building on the mandate from the 2010 Global dairy Conference the IUF has...
IUF global Kraft meeting sets union priorities
...and provide mutual solidarity and support. A steering group composed of key IUF affiliates within Kraft will facilitate this work. The meeting expressed support to the members of the...
Improved pay, benefits for New Zealand Cadbury workers
The Service and Food Workers’ Union of New Zealand (SFWU) reports strong membership approval (95%) for a new agreement at the Dunedin chocolate plant. The agreement gives a 4% increase...
Completed OECD Guidelines update a work in progress
The updated OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises were officially adopted in Paris on May 25, opening up new potential for unions to make use of the procedures. The updated Guidelines...
UK Parliament report again slams Kraft
...payroll is growing, it is the tax division. Kraft unions must be alert to the company’s new tactic for restricting information necessary for collective bargaining and call their bluff. The...
Free Ivory Coast union leader Basile Mahan Gahé!
On April 26, Basile Mahan Gahé, general secretary of the national trade union center Dignité (whose food and hotel section is affiliated to the IUF), was arrested at his Abidjan...
Turkey criminalizes union action with mass indictments of union leaders – Act Now! to defend trade union rights
...a response to their demands for new employment with acquired rights – as required under Turkish law. When the government failed to offer anything concrete, TEKGIDA-IS and their many supporters...
Negotiated settlement ends long, bitter Tata/Tetley tea plantation dispute
...majority-owned by Tata Global Beverages, part of India’s Tata Group. The settlement is a result of 3 sets of direct negotiations over several weeks between APPL and the IUF India...
FLOC delegation brings tobacco farm workers’ human rights message to Europe and to BAT shareholders
...Germany FLOC representatives met the Tobacco Workers Group of the IUF-affiliated NGG (German Food, Beverages, Tobacco and Hotel Workers Union) and unionists from BAT headquarters in Hamburg, the Imperial Tobacco...
Global cost-cutting offensive intensifies at Kraft
...new employees) were given an ultimatum: “voluntarily” opt out of the scheme or face a 3-year pay freeze. Kraft management, in a by now familiar pattern, explained that they had...