A breakthrough for women in Coca-Cola Pakistan
...low, ranging from to 10%. IUF affiliates in Pakistan have successfully encouraged the company to apply a gender hiring policy to recruit more women workers and widen opportunities for women...
Talleys AFFCO, prosecuted for health and safety violations, lays off union members
...by a meat hook and dragged along the line at the company’s Rangiuru plant. Sentencing will take place next month. The company blamed the worker for the accident. In January...
Four workers killed in accident at Heineken Brazil
...company-commissioned report and the reports from the Ministry of Labor, the fire and police departments. In 2014, Heineken reported fifteen workplace fatalities – four company employees and eleven contract workers....
ATILRA members strike at Buenos Aires cheese company.
Workers employed by the Buenos Aires cheese manufacturer Barazza S.A. began an indefinite strike on February 29 in defense of their basic rights. The company harassed union delegates and members...
Morocco: DOHA workers continue campaign to support Abdullah Rakhmoun, demand jobs and union rights
...union’s president guilty of inflicting a financial loss on the company and ordered him to pay the company around EUR 300,000 in damages. The court decision was instantly appealed, the...
Talleys/AFFCO lockout lifted by court order, rights abuses continue
Members of the New Zealand Meat Workers Union began returning to work at the Talleys/AFFCO Wairoa plant on February 22 following a court decision ordering the company to end the...
Mondelez reported to be recruiting strikebreakers in preparation for bargaining
...Nabisco biscuit plants and three distribution centers. Weeks before bargaining formally got underway on February 16, a company called Huffmaster Crisis Response, which provides replacement workers and security and describes...
Tyson’s income surges on the back of low wages, wage theft, denied sick leave and discrimination
The world’s largest poultry processing company saw its net income soar by 49 percent in 2015. Just as shareholders heard their good news, the Northwest Arkansas Workers’ Justice Center (NWAWJC)...
JBS Chairman charged with crimes against the financial system.
Federal prosecutors in Brazil allege that in 2011 the now defunct Banco Rural SA lent USD19.7 million to two firms controlled by JBS parent company J&F Investmentos SA. Those companies...
Workplace slaughter and rights abuses continue at Talleys/AFFCO
...reforms to New Zealand’s health and safety legislation, a worker whose arm was sliced open at the company’s South Pacific Meats plant had to transport himself to hospital. His boss...
Joint commitment on preventing sexual harassment at Unilever
The IUF and IndustriAll, the international unions representing workers at the global food and home and personal products manufacturer Unilever, have signed a joint commitment with the company on preventing...
BCTGM steps up fight against Mondelez mass layoffs in Chicago
...eliminated if the new lines were installed in Mexico, and that even if Chicago BCTGM members agreed to USD 46 million in annual savings the company would still eliminate 255...