Pepsi plant shuts down in Venezuela
...Polar, a large bottling company that supplies Pepsi with materials, stopped sending bottle caps and supplies for cans over a week ago. “Our suppliers are not getting dollars to buy...
McDonald’s Italy: no room for unions on the menu
McDonald’s Italy workers and their unions are fighting the company’s dismissal of 4 union workers following the closure of its flagship restaurant in Milan’s city center. The conflict began on...
Mondelez slashes union jobs in Chicago after demanding impossible concessions
Mondelez will eliminate 600 union jobs and close 9 production lines at its Chicago USA plant as part of a production shift to Salinas, Mexico. In May the company demanded...
Global Housekeeping Campaign launched at Cambodia’s biggest hotel casino
...represents 2,600 members at the Hong Kong-listed NagaWorld Hotel & Entertainment Complex in Phnom Penh. The parent company NagaCorp has a 41 year monopoly that prevents any other hotel casino...
Turkish workers protest right violations at Swissotel Istanbul
...Oswald wrote to Swissotel management urging the company to stop union-busting and recognize the rights of the union and its members. Click here to read the letter. 0075_LettertoBosphorusHotel.pdf swissotelsmall.jpg swissotel.jpg...
Solidarity wins reinstatement for Unilever Pakistan workers
...2009-2010 through direct negotiations with the company under the auspices of the UK’s National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. As a result of that process, Unilever...
UFCW action prompts US workplace safety agency to cite poultry producers for ergonomic hazards
...motions and awkward postures resulting in ergonomic stressors” leading to crippling repetitive strain injuries. The company was also cited for failing to make lavatories available to workers when they need...
Meat giant goes on a shopping spree
...Primo Group, the largest producer of small goods in Australasia. The company then declared a period of consolidation and organic growth, stating that further acquisitions were unlikely in 2015. Two...
NGG reaches first collective agreement at Nestlé Wagner in Germany
...invested in a 49% stake in this company in 2005 and increased its stake to 75% in 2010. Nestlé has invested in the expansion of the factory, but until now,...
Myanmar: union-busting at Luxury Belmond hotel
...the new company was incorporated, management began its anti-union campaign, demoting and docking the pay of experienced staff on the union committee and terminating another. The Governor’s Residence is located...
McJobs report documents pattern of global abuses
...company’s global system: wage theft, discrimination, unsafe workplaces and anti-union practices. Simultaneous with the launch of the report, a public event in the European Parliament was hosted by MEP Jutta...
Phillips Seafood – ‘sustainable’ fisheries, disposable jobs
...a full line of fish products, relies on 17 overseas plants, because US stocks are exhausted due to overfishing and pollution. So the company claims to be promoting sustainable fisheries....