Unleashing aggression at Nestlé
...a hefty dividend increase or the successful launch of a new product. Corporate aggression, like other forms of aggression, is difficult to control. It can be restrained and repressed, for...
Strikes at PepsiCo Bottling Plants in China
As new details emerge about the process of transfer of PepsiCo bottling operations in China to Tingyi, workers there found out about the devil in this detail. And that devil...
Nestlé European Trade Unions Demand “Stop Nespressure” in Indonesia and in Pakistan!
...reinstated and that local management returns to good faith negotiations for the long-delayed collective bargaining negotiation. Pakistan management must enter into good faith negotiations with the Kabirwala union and stop...
China: PepsiCo sells bottling operations, forms Alliance with Tingyi
...a 4th position in market share with 5,5 percent, compared to Coca-Cola’s 17. With the new Alliance, Tingyi and PepsiCo combined will have a 20% market share, becoming the largest...
Entrenching inequality: how companies learned to stop worrying and learn to love the EU Directive on agency work
...into “permanent employees”. At the same time, Carlsberg is seeking to entrench CBA language which would start new hires at 80% of the pay of longer-serving employees, moving to 90%...
An EWC meeting – with a difference!
...will deliver handsomely to shareholders while upping the pressure on workers in both the new companies – the global snacks and North American grocery division – through layoffs and outsourcing....
Australian NUW Launches ‘Better Jobs 4 Better Chicken’ Campaign
...balloting for possible industrial action at another Baiada site. NUW organizers have recruited 100 new members at a poultry plant in the northern Melbourne suburbs, leveraging this into a union...
Temp Agencies Offensive Rebuffed at ILO Tripartite Meeting
...the Workers Group no time to ask whether replacing all direct employment with agency jobs would result in more decent work and better protection of worker rights… The Workers Group,...
Management change marks new phase in campaign to reinstate dismissed Polish hotel union activist
...from the Norwegian hotel union and their shop stewards, Solidarnosc has approached the new management to urge that her case be resolved. As consultations are pending, Solidarnosc has suspended their...
Unions call for comprehensive action on precarious work by the ILO
...new phenomenon? “It is because labour today is under assault nearly everywhere, including in what were once assumed to be some of its most secure bastions. At the core of...
IUF’s Dairy Division Country and Company Reports
...in Buenos Aires in March 2010. The latest research project resourced by the New Zealand Dairy Workers Union (NZDWU) is completed and covers a range of dairy companies and key...
Vitasoy Australia Workers and NUW win
...factory workers accepted the new collective bargaining agreement after their union NUW gained some important benefits and rights from management. These gains included: Protection for all workers through insertion of...