Kraft Foods to split into two separate companies
...the North American company to its shareholders. The split is expected to take 12 months, with the new companies in place by the end of 2012. The new North American...
Coca-Cola unions in Pakistan coordinate national bargaining, sign collective agreements for the first time
...the agreements were signed this month. Safeer Mughal (second from left), General Secretary of the Coca-Cola Karachi Union, with the CCBPL Karachi management on signing the new CBA. KhaistasigningCBA_s.jpg CCKarachiCBA_s.jpg...
Peru: women chocolate workers’ hunger strike brings victory at La IbĂ©rica
A twenty-two day strike by workers at Peru’s upscale La Ibérica chocolate maker – including a week’s hunger strike – have resulted in a new collective agreement which brings important...
No contract, years without a raise – LSG Sky Chefs workers rally at Lufthansa HQ
...airline Lufthansa, in East Meadow, New York. The workers have been without a contract since January 2010. The workers endured a substantial cut in wages in benefits to help out...
Nestlé to enter partnership with Chinese confectionery company Hsu Fu Chi
...Chen, will continue to lead the company in the new partnership. Nestlé proposes to acquire the shares of Hsu Fu Chi’s independent shareholders, and has secured irrevocable undertakings from the...
Organizing in the Indian Dairy Sectory – Indian and New Zeland Dairy workers join hands
...will be discussed in the upcoming meeting of IUF Dairy Division leadership group to be held in Hamilton, New Zealand on November 16-17, 2011 which will be hosted by NZDWU....
Alliance of Coca-Cola Unions Philippines (ACCUP) rolls back casualization
...permanent workers on the new 3rd shift! ACCUP, with IUF support, criticized this and demanded that the new 3rd shifts – part of the TCCC’s new US$1 billion investment in...
Union wins permanent jobs for casual workers at second Horlicks dairy plant in India
...for 205 casual workers under the new Collective Agreement signed recently. After two decades of precarious employment the 205 casual workers can finally access their fundamental trade union rights, joining...
Precarious x 3: The layers of precarious employment beneath Kraftâs Oreo biscuits and wafers
...transnational companies operating in India such as McDonald’s. Click here to download this Kraft Union Network bulletin in pdf format. ——————————– * The state minimum wage is Rs.3,840 per...
Heinz keeps workers in the dark â and docks their pay
...ever). Production from Australia is to be transferred to New Zealand, where “a small number of new positions will be created” (Heinz Watties Ltd. press release). It has since been...
Danish Crown union news from Denmark
New hires at Herning while workers at Hadsund fight pay cuts The following stories were published by the Danish Food Workers Union, NNF, on 30 June 2011: 200 new employees...
PRO-GE slams Kraft for profit maximization through job cuts
...the fact that the company plans to invest in new production lines. PRO-GE, the IUF-affiliated union representing workers at Kraft’s two factories in Austria, Bludenz (Suchard chocolate) and Vienna (Jacobs...