Danone to expand plant-based beverage site in US
Danone plans to invest as much as US$60m to expand its plant-based beverage facility in Rockingham County in the US state of Virginia. The French group will add new production...
Danone CEO assumes dual leadership role as chairman Riboud steps down
Danone veteran Franck Riboud is stepping down as chairman, with Chief Executive Emmanuel Faber taking on both top roles in a move the French group said would ensure continuity in...
Danone bids to revive ailing Brazil dairy business
...a double-digit decline in its sales in the country during the third quarter. The French group said its early-life nutrition and medical nutrition businesses grew in Brazil but the group...
Danone launches dairy offensive in France
...of the launch programme, the company is working with a group of twenty stores in France to make the yogurt fixture clearer and meet demand for “innovation, nutrition or a...
First-ever strikes at UK McDonald’s on International Fast Food Workers’ Day
...on McJobs Facebook group or through the hashtag #FastFooodGlobal, #McStrike and #Fightfor15. The IUF World congress, meeting in Geneva August 29-September 1, expressed its solidarity with fast food workers taking...
Organizing, fighting and winning together: the IUF 27th Congress
...in society took an important step forward with a well-attended pre-Congress first-ever meeting of LGBTI Workers and Allies, who will now constitute a formal group within the IUF structures and...
Orchard workers in New Zealand win the right to potable water
...sanitation system. Turners and Growers, a subsidiary of the German based international trading and services group BayWa, initially responded to the union demand for drinkable water by defending its offer...
Philippines’ Supreme Court affirms Citra Mina resnsibility for labour rights violations on outsourced fishing vessels
...Mommy Gina Tuna Resources, the mother company in the Citra Mina Group, in 1994-1996. They were terminated in 1997. Jake Lu, the owner of both MGTR and Citra Mina, declared...
Global dairy TNC’s strengthen market dominance
...as milk price volatility and job instability becomes a permanent feature in a system rigged in favour of global commodity traders, major food processors and big retailers. The Lactalis Group-e.pdf...
New Zealand McDonald’s workers gain new collective agreement
Members of the IUF-affiliated Unite Union in New Zealand have overwhelmingly endorsed the agreement reached by the bargaining group and McDonald’s. The main points of the agreement are pay increases...
North American IUF Affiliates rally at Mondelez shareholder meeting
...rally participants. A smaller group of IUF affiliates who attended the shareholder meeting spoke out against the destructive direction in which management has taken the company, urging a more long-term...
Strike averted as Swedish hotels return to the bargaining table for new national agreement
...established in other sectoral agreements, one of the key negotiating demands; and the establishing of a joint working group with the employers to review housekeepers’ workloads. The union has warmly...