Workers at the largest tobacco company in the Philippines have been on strike since September 28, protesting factory closures and mass lay-offs. The Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Labor Union (PMFTCLU-NAFLU)...
...Valley in Mindinao. The union has been on strike since October 1 over the company’s refusal to engage in collective bargaining negotiations for more than a decade. Despite a Supreme...
...in an attempt to disperse picket lines. The union has been on strike since October 1 over the company’s refusal to engage in collective bargaining negotiations for more than a...
...workers and their unions are confronted with increasingly aggressive cost-cutting and restructuring as the company seeks to satisfy the greed of large shareholders and yields to pressure from aggressive predatory...
...by walkouts in Oakland, Detroit and San Diego. “Marriott is the richest and most profitable hotel company in the world,”, said UNITE HERE President D. Taylor, “and by taking them...
...workers affecting another 200 workers. Furthermore, the company has launched an attack on collective agreements, demanding cut-backs on salaries and working conditions. At a meeting with representatives of Nestlé corporate...
Mondelez worker Milkhi Ram was killed on September 21 while operating a moulding machine in the company’s Baddi, India plant. His death followed a wave of massive workforce reductions accompanied...
...company’s serial human rights violations. The solidarity tour of Canada follows on international IUF protests in Atlanta and meetings of an international delegation with unions at Coca-Cola in the USA....
After six months of negotiations, over 200 Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company drivers, merchandisers and warehouse workers represented by Teamsters Local 683 ratified their newest collective bargaining agreement by more than an...
Following successful protests and meeting with student groups in Atlanta (see more here) IUF members from Indonesia, the Philippines and Haiti shared their experiences of The Coca-Cola Company’s human rights...
...JDE is now the world’s second largest global coffee company, with brands including Jacobs, Tassimo, Moccona, Senseo, L’OR, Douwe Egberts, Kenco, Pilão and Gevalia. JDE’s parent company, JAB Holding registered...
...demonstration capped the 14 workers’ march of over 115 kilometres from the plant to the company’s Turkey headquarters, which spread their message across Turkey. Their struggle has been widely covered...