Estonian meat workers strike
...on February 1 failed and the workers began a new strike on February 6. The IUF has sent a message of solidarity to the Estonian union and is keeping in...
International unions press Algerian government to respect trade union rights
...at the country’s Geneva embassy condemning the ongoing repression of independent trade unions. In addition to the new cascade of lawsuits directed against Raouf Mellal, president of the independent energy...
Under Iceland’s new equal pay law employers must prove compliance or face fines
...ensuring non-discrimination. Employers who fail to comply face accumulating daily fines. Experts from the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the Working Group on the Issue of...
Union push brings new safety standard for hotel housekeepers in California
...IUF-affiliated UNITE HERE has driven the push for a specific standard since the union petitioned the Standards Board in 2012. Under the new standard on Hotel Housekeeping Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention,...
Danone to shut down its dairy business in India
...six-seven years, primarily on building manufacturing facilities in Haryana and Punjab, setting up the head office in Mumbai and the acquisition of Wockhardt Group’s nutrition business in 2011. http://www.livemint.com/Companies/YPDquZkbD3CAOR4IL9n0DN/Danone-to-shut-down-its-dairy-business-in-India.html...
Financing the spreads sale buyout: the new company will be buried in debt
...And all of the debt will go on the books of the new company. Because the new company is itself financing 83% of the cost of its own takeover, plus...
UK: Hundreds to lose jobs as PepsiCo bottler Britvic proposes to shut down Norwich factory
...the workforce or their Consultative Group. “The Company have admitted to withholding from the Consultative Group a key report into the site operations. They have also taken more than 4...
KKR, the new boss at Unilever spreads
...finance special payouts to the new owners. The buyout fund holds on to the company for a limited period, then sells it on and captures 20 percent of the profits....
LGBTI workers’ rights are human rights
...well-attended first-ever meeting of LGBTI Workers and Allies, who will now constitute a formal group within the IUF structures and be represented on its governing bodies. “Today, the IUF calls...
Editorial: Honduras: a stolen election and the legacy of a coup d’état
On November 26, citizens of Honduras went to the polls to elect a new president. The election was stolen, triggering a new crisis in a country tormented by violence, corruption...
Danone awarded €105m damages from Fonterra over botulism scare
...IUF affiliate, the New Zealand Dairy Workers Union (NZDWU). Danone’s competitor Fonterra is a cooperative owned by more than 13000 New Zealand farmers. It is the world’s biggest dairy exporter....
Coca-Cola Amatil’s Zero Rights Christmas Truck is here for the Holidays!
...Coca-Cola Amatil is The Coca-Cola Company’s exclusive bottler for Coca-Cola products in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Samoa. Agile and alert to change, Coca-Cola Amatil came...