Banbury coffee workers dial up pressure on Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE)
JDE relaunches immoral fire and rehire plans
UK: Coffee giant JDE threatens entire workforce with dismissal to ram through attack on conditions
...make it the world’s largest publicly listed coffee company. The Banbury plant produces Kenco, Tassimo and Millicano. Parent company JAB Holdings is a Luxembourg-registered private equity fund. Its aggressive approach...
NGG Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) production workers win substantial wage increases following warning strikes
NGG members from Jacobs Douwe Egberts’ Bremen factory have won an average 3% yearly wage increase following warning strikes on August 7. This is a substantial increase from the 1.4%...
New agreement follows strikes at JDE Netherlands
Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) workers in the Netherlands and their union FNV have a new collective bargaining agreement following two effective 24-hour strikes in Joure and Utrecht on November 19...
FNV and NGG members strike Jacobs Douwe Egberts in the Netherlands and in Germany
Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) workers in Utrecht, Netherlands and in 7 German locations (Bremen, Munich, Stuttgart, Berlin, Elmshorn, Leipzig and Darmstadt) took strike action on November 22. In Utrecht, workers...
IUF affiliates show solidarity and support for JDE workers in Germany
...Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises. JDE’s parent company JAB Holding also owns many well-known café chains such as Krispy Kreme, Pret a Manger, Peet’s Coffee, Caribou, Einstein Noah, and Stumptown. In...
Italian unions to strike against job destruction at Jacob Douwe Egberts (JDE)
...JDE is now the world’s second largest global coffee company, with brands including Jacobs, Tassimo, Moccona, Senseo, L’OR, Douwe Egberts, Kenco, Pilão and Gevalia. JDE’s parent company, JAB Holding registered...
Warning strike brings improved wages at Kraft Foods Berlin
A 3-hour warning strike on April 27 helped to secure a wage agreement between the German foodworkers union NGG and Kraft Foods management. After management at the Berlin Jacobs coffee...