USA: ClubMed workers win a new collective agreement
...Sandpiper Bay, USA, on March 22, that sets a new standard for use of contract employees for the French company. The one-year agreement for 110 ClubMed employees requires the company...
Contract workers win permanent jobs at Danone Netherlands
...renewal of these contracts every two years. Remaining contract workers employed for specific projects will now have the same training and sick leave rights as permanent workers. Further conversions to...
Climate change, technology and equality included in Dairy Division work plan
At a planning meeting in San Francisco on March 12 & 13, the IUF Dairy Division Steering Group decided that it must be at the negotiating table to discuss the...
IUF women around the world demand EQUALITY NOW! on International Women’s Day
...Asia Pacific, IUF affiliates celebrated IWD under the common theme “More Women, More Power” by organising activities including training and seminars in Australia (on gender inequality), Cambodia (on the national...
Now it’s official: six-year union drive wins workplace health standard for hotel housekeepers
...identify and evaluate housekeeping hazards through worksite evaluations that include housekeeper input Procedures to investigate musculoskeletal injuries to housekeeper Methods to correct identified hazards Training of employees and supervisors on...
International solidarity with Phillips Seafood Indonesia workers
...IUF Assistant General Secretary James Ritchie and union representatives from the Americas, Europe, Australia and New Zealand gathered outside the San Francisco CostCo store to distribute a leaflet exposing the...
Italian affiliates to implement IUF/Sodexo joint commitment to prevent sexual harassment
...protection for workers from gender based violence in the world of work. The agreement includes a commitment by affiliates to undertake training and awareness raising activities on sexual harassment. After...
Nestlé workers from France demonstrate in Switzerland
...While the group shouted slogans, sang, chanted, marched and carried out flash mob actions, Nestlé and Galderma management agreed to meet a delegation comprising Galderma union delegates and IUF representatives....
What happens when the shark runs out of water for the feeding frenzy?
...up on debt to acquire a company, wrings out all possible costs to boost profitability, and once this has been completed, borrows again to fund a new acquisition and repeats...
A new national agreement for Italian tourism workers to maintain social benefit and job security
...and strikes in support or their demands. The new agreement also includes a new protocol against sexual harassment in workplaces and improved language on public procurement in the catering sector....
New IUF Africa publication: a resource for fighting for LGBTI workers’ rights
The IUF is pleased to announce the publication of “Our common struggle for rights and equality organising, fighting and winning LGBTI workers’ rights: A resource for IUF affiliates in the...
Nestlé workers travel from France to defend their research center from threatened closure
...and to open a new R&D center in Switzerland is incoherent, incomprehensible and unacceptable.” The IUF-affiliated FGA-CFDT, which represents Nestlé food workers in France, has been supporting their sisters and...