Vion workers to take further action over pay
...even been to ACAS [Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service] to try and get a resolution but the company refused to budge. We hope Vion will reconsider but they should know...
Nestlé workers, supporters rally in Indonesia and Pakistan as global support builds – Stop Nespressure!
...was signed with the company ending their strike in October. The same day, February 15, union activists in New York showed their solidarity with the Nestlé workers in Panjang and...
PepsiCo to cut 8,700 jobs; 4Q net rises
...top of $1.5 billion in cost cutting it previously announced. The announcement of the job cuts came as the company reported slightly higher earnings for the fourth quarter. Pepsi’s rival...
Heinz announces further US plant closure
...frozen soups for restaurant operators and employs about 100 workers. In a statement, the company attributed the closure to “the difficult conditions in which the company is operating.” As in...
Unprecedented meeting between FENATRAL and Fonterra authorities; An interview With Aldo Contreras Lezana
...In this regard we proposed the need of the company to make a health history of Soprole workers to accurately assess the damage they have suffered from repetitive strain injuries...
PepsiCo Union Members Seek NLRB Help to Fight $50 Tax on Smoking, Fat
Teamsters union members at PepsiCo in upstate New York are seeking help from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to fight a health-care policy by the company that charges employees...
Unilever workers and their unions protest in Rotterdam
Over 100 European trade union activists gathered at Unilever European headquarters in Rotterdam in the Netherlands on February 16 for a noisy protest against the company’s attack on the pensions...
Unite Meatworkers To Take Strike Action At Vion Foods
...largest meat processing company in Europe and the 4th largest in the world as measured by 2010 sales. In its 2010 accounts the company reported that it employed almost 27,000...
Smithfield workers protest proposed job cuts in Poland
...and since September had been calling for a meeting to discuss the company’s future plans and the consequences for the workforce. But management ignored them. Management also ignored a series...
European Unilever workers stand together to say ‘Unilever – don’t make workers pay for your profits!’
...workers’ pensions. UK workers will travel to Rotterdam to join European Unilever colleagues from other unions outside the company’s headquarters. There they will be delivering a solidarity message to management,...
Kraft wages war on jobs one plant at a time
...two new companies, and will ultimately have to figure out where to stick the enormous debt that paid for the Cadbury acquisition. But the company is losing no time in...
Fonterra Australia fined over worker crushed to death
...practicable steps to better ensure the safety of all employees. IUF and its members organized at Fonterra operations call on the company to engage in serious dialogue with trade unions...