Strike against job cuts at AB INBEV Belgium ends in mediation
...the day of the announcement, a group of workers at the Jupiler brewery kept 10 managers in a prolonged negotiating session for 11 hours demanding to speak to head office...
Kraft and Cadbury, Victors and Spoils
...The only group with a long-term investment in the future of their workplaces, it would appear, is the workers who build the businesses. The Cadbury deal shows just how few...
Tata Continues Collective Punishment of Indian Tea Workers
Nearly one thousand tea workers and their families continue to suffer collective punishment at the hands of India’s Tata Group. Workers at the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal,...
Blackstone’s Hilton Woes Will Weigh on Workers
...to real estate investors Lightstone Group for USD 8 billion. The deal was done with USD 1 billion in cash and 7 billion in debt. Lightstone had no experience in...
Will Investment Funds Transform Hotel Group Accor into an Empty Shell?
The decision taken by the Board of Directors of the Accor group to proceed with the plan to split the group into two separate listed companies is the latest of...
IUF Accuses Catering/Services Compass of Major Rights Violations in Algeria
In Hassi Messaoud, Algeria, 850 kilometers southeast of Algiers, Eurest Support Services, a subsidiary of Compass Group, subcontracts catering and hospitality services to a score of multinationals like Schlumberger, Halliburton,...
Faster Discharges for Fast Food Bakery Workers?
...part-time member doesn’t answer the phone after five attempts they will automatically be discharged. The IUF has written Wendy’s/Arby’s Group boss Roland Smith, calling on the company to halt these...
At Tetley we want you to enjoy your pregnancy without it being stressful
...subsidiary of India’s Tata Group. Tata, the powerful Indian conglomerate, holds a 49.98% ownership stake in Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited, with whom it shares share the same office in Kolkata,...
As UN World Summit on Food Security Meets, IUF Asks What about the Workers?
...one of the UN agencies with a specific mandate to work on eradicating hunger from the world. The IUF, which participates in the civil society consultation group of the UN’s...
Ethical? Tetley’s Tata Tea Starving Indian Tea Workers into Submission – they need your help
Tata, the transnational Indian conglomerate whose Tetley Group makes the world famous Tetley teas, has taken 6,500 people hostage through hunger. Click here to send a message to Tata/Tetley!...
Europe’s Social Democrats Launch ‘Europeans for Financial Reform’
The Party of European Socialists, the umbrella group of European Social Democratic and Labour parties with whom the IUF has worked closely on legislative proposals for regulating private equity and...
IUF/Danone Group Launch International Union/Management Meetings
For the first time in the over 20-year history of international labour relations at Danone, trade unionists representing Danone workers from all over the globe attended this year’s meeting of...