Ireland: Hotel workers in battle to defend minimum wage
...it will signal a new race to the bottom.” The Davenport Hotel is part of the O’Callaghan Hotel Group owned by Persian Properties and property developer, Noel O’Callaghan. Click here...
IUF Role in Organizing
...train the union representatives and update them with recent developments of union movement. “ Tekgida-Is, Turkey 8. Creating a working group that would determine organizing strategies and plan of action...
Nowera Nuddy tea workers journey to Kolkata to demand justice at Tata-Tetley’s Indian HQ
...Beverages (TGB). Tata Global Beverages, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the powerful Tata Group, owns UK-based Tetley (the world’s number 2 tea brand) and controls Amalgamated Plantations, the company which owns...
Social revolt boosts struggle against casual employment at Coca-Cola Tunisia – union negotiates abolition of agency work
...agencies will no longer be used in any establishment of the SFBT group: soft drinks, the brewery, the dairy operation, even bars and cafes belonging to the group. All workers...
Tata Group tea workers determined to claim their rights
...company 49% owned by Tata Global Beverages, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of India’s powerful Tata Group conglomerate. Tata’s Tetley Tea is 100% Tata-owned, and sources tea from Amalgamated –...
Pepsico: “Snackifying drinks, drinkifying beverages”
...not only at snacks, but at what Chairwoman and Chief Executive Indra Nooyi calls “good-for-you” products. The nutrition group is thus charged with developing new products that would “combine” snacks...
EU regulation of private equity: results and prospects
...and scale of the buyouts. An ambitious political agenda incorporating key trade union concerns was formulated in a report prepared by the Party of European Socialists (PES, the umbrella group...
Global IUF/Unilever meeting explores employment & rights
IUF general secretary Ron Oswald, a representative group of IUF affiliates from the IUF regions, staff of the general and regional secretariats and a representative of ICEM met with corporate...
Del Monte Kenya targets union activists for dismissal
...work under the existing terms and conditions. The agreement also stipulated that disciplinary procedures would be applied to a group of workers alleged to have committed illegal acts in the...
Mobilization beats back wage cutting at Hong Kong’s fast food giant – wages raised!
...On November 6, Café de Coral, “”the largest publicly listed Chinese Fast Food restaurant group in the world” with over 500 outlets in Asia/Pacific and North America and substantial food...
Hong Kong-based global fast food operator plays fast and loose with wages
...Executive Chairman of the Café de Coral Group, is a member of the Commission. Café de Coral Group is hardly a bit player in the development of a minimum wage...
International Unions Call for Action on Labour Rights Abuses in Korea
...current situation – and the urgent need for change. ———————————— *The Group of 20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors is made up of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, European...