Strike brings gains for Fonterra Chile dairy workers

Nearly two weeks after launching an unlimited strike at the Prolesur dairy plant in Osorno, Chile, 120 members of the Chilean Federation of Dairy Company Workers’ Unions (FENATRAL) have won...

Russian unions join forces in new confederation

...and attacks and criminal indictments for their union activity. Valentin Urusov, president of the union at the ALROSA diamond mining company, has been imprisoned for the past three years on...

Thailand: Reinstate KFC union activists now!

...company then proceeded to harass and intimidate the remaining workers by holding a series of meetings putting pressure on them to withdraw their support for the union. The company, Yum!...

IUF global Kraft meeting sets union priorities

Kraft has moved up the international union agenda – a necessary development in response to the company’s rapid international growth. No longer primarily a North American company with European and...

Improved pay, benefits for New Zealand Cadbury workers

...also meant offshoring production of previously New Zealand-made Cadbury products to Australia, Asia and the UK. According to the company news release (http://www.cadbury.co.nz/about-cadbury/news.aspx?newsid=274), “establishing specialised centres of manufacturing excellence also...

UK Parliament report again slams Kraft

...echo union concerns but could go further. This is why the issues it raises should be kept alive and pressure on UK lawmakers and on the company must continue, a...