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Sales at Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, last year topped 110 billion Swiss francs, leaving the competition in the shade. Sales keep growing, and profits with them. A leading moneymaker is the company's Nespresso. But for many Nestlé workers around the world, growing profits translate into growing pressure from management on their wages, conditions and rights. We call it Nespressure – squeezing workers, violating workplace rights. 
January 20, 2012
SBNIP Picket in Panjang
On January 11, the SBNIP held a protest in front of the Nescafé Panjang factory calling for the reinstatement of the 53 workers brutally dismissed last October.
SBNIP members with protest banners in front of police paddy wagons positioned before the Nescafé factory gates.
January 16, 2012
Stop Nespressure! New action in Gujranwala
On January 14, 2012, members of the National Federation of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Workers of Pakistan (NFFBTW) went out on the streets of Gujranwala in support of the Nestle workers, demanding permanent contracts and the end of union rights vioilations.
January 10, 2012
Stop Nespressure in Toronto
Trade union activists staged a demonstration in front of the Nespresso shop in a crowded underground mall area in Toronto on January 6.
January 01, 2012
Nestle workers bring demand to Stop Nespressure to the streets of Karachi
A day after the protest action by contract workers in Kabirwala, the National Federation of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Workers (NFFBTW) held a demonstration against Nespressure in Karachi, calling on Nestle to stop the repression of workers' rights in Pakistan and Indonesia and to end abusive of casual employment practices in the company's largest milk processing factory. The demonstration is the first in a series of nation-wide protests organized by NFFBTW.
December 29, 2011
Stop Nespressure in Pakistan! NFFBTW announced protest actions in seven cities
Members of the Nestle Workers Action Committee, fighting for their right to permanent jobs at Nestle's largest dairy factory in Kabirwala, held another protest action on December 28, 2011. Three days earlier, on December 25, a mass meeting of the Action Committee’s 245 members voted unanimously to continue the campaign for the right to permanent jobs and trade union rights, rejecting attempts by local management to treat the pending reinstatement of 85 illegally dismissed workers as a solution to the conflict. The workers will only be reinstated as contract workers and none will be appointed to permanent jobs.
December 25, 2011
Nestlé's end of year lottery - on the wrong shift? OK then "you're fired"
On December 25, a day that for many symbolizes the spirit of generous human kindness, the actions of the world’s biggest food company in 2011 were far from generous for many of its workers in Indonesia. Nestlé workers at Panjang, having spent years trying to access their fundamental human rights at work, became the subject of arbitrary and vindictive action by the company. They became victims of a perverse lottery which if you lost out on meant you also lost your job and livelihood.
December 24, 2011
Action in Berlin: union and social activists demand to Stop Nespressure!
Union and social activists gathered December 21st in front of the Nespresso boutique in Berlin to express their solidarity with Nestlé workers in Indonesia and Pakistan. They distributed leaflets to customers and pedestrians and handed over a protest letter to the manager of the boutique.
December 15, 2011
Solidarity without borders: Occupy Nespresso Soho
Activists of IUF-affiliated Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union leafleted the Nespresso café in New York’s trendy Soho on December 13, 2011 to call attention to the anti-worker tactics of Nestle in Pakistan and Indonesia. RWDSU represents workers throughout much of the United States and Canada, by this solidarity action RWDSU declared it's support for international campaign to put pressure on Nestle to treat its workers fairly.
December 06, 2011
Nestlé tells Pakistan contract workers 'Give up your rights, now and forever!' Mass dismissals, jail, beatings and now blackmail
Management at Nestle's giant Kabirwala dariy factory in Pakistan is deepening its policy of punishing contract workers who demand their legal rights. Casual workers employed for nine months are entitled by law to direct, permanent employment status, but Nestlé has responded to their demands by dismissing over a hundred, fabricating legal charges against the workers and by recently offering 50 dismissed workers the possibility of returning to their precarious employment ('no work, no pay) on condition that they permanently renounce all current and future claims against the company! Nestlé management continues to pressure union president Mohammad Bhatti to drop his support for the contract workers, who face fabricated criminal charges for claiming their rights. In the course of their struggle, workers have been physically assaulted by a vengeful labour contractor and goons. Stop Nespressure - send a message to Nestlé! Click here to tell the world's largest food company to respect rights and stop punishing contract workers in Pakistan!
Challenging Precarious_Work@Nestlé.Kabirwala.com
Nestlé's dairy factory in Kabirwala, Pakistan, depends on the daily labour of hundreds of precarious workers provided by contractors on a no work, no pay basis. When the union became engaged in assisting long-serving precarious workers to obtain direct, permanent employment status - as prescribed by law - management responded with mass dismissals, provocations, police charges and physical assault by the labour contractor and goons.
December 01, 2011
Stop Nespressure! Panjang independent unions solidarity rally in support of Nescafe workers
Four IUF-affiliated food workers unions joined the SBNIP in a march and rally through the provincial capital Lampung on November 30, 2011, along with other unions and supporters of trade union rights. More than 230 people took part in the action to demand reinstatement of the Nescafe workers. Broad support for the action showed growing awareness and understanding of the importance of the Panjang workers’ struggle for the future of independent trade unionism in Indonesia.
“Practicing what you preach” at Nestlé Chile
Nestlé workers will be familiar with what the company calls the "4 Nestlé behaviors", which are used in the evaluation process to which non-management personnel are increasingly being subjected. One of these is "practice what you preach". Two recent events at Nestlé Chile's Macul plant call into question management compliance with Nestlé's professed dedication to the safety and health of its "people" ("our most important asset") and the respect for the people, practices and laws of the countries in which it operates.
November 29, 2011
Special RadioLabour report on Nespressure in Pakistan and Indonesia
Kabirwala union members vow to continue the struggle for employment, trade union rights – in Pakistan and Indonesia
Members of the Nestle Employees Union Kabirwala held their general body meeting on November 24 and pledged to continue their struggle for justice in their factory and at the Nescafé factory in Panjang, Indonesia.
November 21, 2011
Jail, bail, dismissals - criminalizing the struggle for decent work at Nestlé Pakistan
Contract workers claiming their rights at Nestlé's dairy factory in Kabirwala, Pakistan have been punished with the loss of their jobs and jailed by the score on fabricated charges as management seeks to criminalize the union's struggle in support of permanent jobs for contract workers
November 18, 2011
Poland: Solidarność shop stewards say "Stop Nespressure"
At an IUF workshop on organizing in Warsaw, on 16-18 November, Solidarność union delegates from Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Mars, PepsiCo, Smithfield, SAB Miller and other companies showed their support for Nestlé workers in Indonesia and Pakistan, calling on Nestlé management to stop the Nespressure!
November 17, 2011
Unleashing aggression at Nestlé
A capacity for aggression at Nestlé, the world's largest food company, is not limited to the aggressive pursuit of market share and aggressive cash flow management, qualities praised by investors and envied by competitors. It applies equally to industrial relations, where it receives considerably less attention. Violations of worker rights predictably make less headline noise than the latest quarterly results, a hefty dividend increase or the successful launch of a new product.
November 15, 2011
NFFBTW endorses "Stop Nespressure!"
On 13 November 2011, the National Federation of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Workers (NFFBTW), at its governing body meeting, endorsed the “stop nespressure” campaign. As part of the campaign, the federation will organize a number of protest activities in different cities in Pakistan. The federation strongly condemned the dismissal of Nestlé workers at the Panjang plant and extended full support to Indonesian workers. The meeting also denounced the actions of Nestlé Kabirwala management in dismissing hundreds of contract workers, faking police charges and taking unfair measures against the union president. The meeting denounced the intention of Nestlé Pakistan management to dismiss union president Muhammad Hussain Bhatti as unacceptable. The NFFBTW demanded the immediate reinstatement of workers in the Panjang and Kabirwala plants and the withdrawal of all fake and fabricated charges against the Nestlé Kabirwala union president.
November 10, 2011
Nestlé European Trade Unions Demand "Stop Nespressure" in Indonesia and in Pakistan!
At the November 8, 2011 meeting of the Nestlé European Works Council in Geneva, Switzerland, representatives of twenty Nestlé unions from across Europe collectively called on the company to immediately halt attacks on trade union rights in Indonesia and in Pakistan. The unions insisted that Nestlé reinstate the dismissed trade union members in Indonesia and ensure their livelihoods and halt all harassment of trade unionists in Pakistan.
November 09, 2011
Jail, bail, threats and dismissals as Nestlé Pakistan dairy workers fight for their rights
Management at Nestle's giant Kabirwala dairy factory in Pakistan - a state-of-the art facility with a feudal industrial relations system - is criminalizing the union's fight for the rights of hundreds of contract workers at the plant.
November 04, 2011
Dismissed Nestlé Indonesia workers rally for justice, protest mass firings of union members
The union rally gathered all of the dismissed workers, who picketed the gate from morning until afternoon to demand the reinstatement of all members dismissed following the strike. They have returned to the gates every day to show their determination. Local and national support actions involving other unions are planned. The protests will continue until the all the union workers are reinstated. Click here to support their struggle and send a message to Nestlé.
November 03, 2011
Nespressure returns with mass dismissal of union members in Indonesia
Management at the Nescafé factory in Panjang has fired 53 of the 87 members of our affiliate SBNIP (technically they were handed "resignation letters"!) after the union took industrial action in support of their collective bargaining demands. The strike was the predictable result of five years of deep frustration. Click here to send a message to Nestlé!
October 29, 2011
Nespressure stalks Pakistan
No sooner had Nestlé expanded its plant in Kabirwala, Pakistan in 2007 to become the company's largest milk reception factory in the world, than management set about trying to undermine the union and attacking its energetic and effective president, Mohammad Hussein Bhatti, who was suspended in June 2007 for resisting management interference in union elections (see Pakistan: Management interferes in union elections, dismisses elected union president and violates court orders). Nestlé was forced to back down and Bhatti was reinstated. But pressure on the union continued and has again come to a head, stimulated by the union's decision to open its membership to the numerous contract workers at the plant and to assist 250 contract workers to become permanent employees - in accordance with the law - by filing legal cases at the Labour Court. Bhatti and the IUF-affiliated National Federation of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Workers gave important support to the Casual-T struggle at the Unilever Lipton tea factory in nearby Khanewal - and it would appear that Nestlé's local management has determined to resist similar demands for an end to abuses of precarious employment arrangements. Click here to send a message to Nestlé!
May 12, 2011
Nestlé fined in the UK for health and safety violations
Nestlé Purina UK has been fined GBP 50,000 after five workers suffered severe burns when a steam pressure system malfunctioned. The accident occurred on 4 August 2006. The five workers were doing maintenance on a hydrostat, a high-pressure food-processing machine, when they were hit by an uncontrolled release of steam and boiling water at the Nestlé Purina plant in Wisbech.
January 18, 2011
Russian unions picket at newly open Nespresso boutique in Moscow
December 08, 2010
New York RWDSU Solidarity with Nestle Workers Across the Globe (video)
December 05, 2010
New York RWDSU Solidarity with Nestle Workers Across the Globe
November 29, 2010
Justice for Nescafe Workers! Polish "Solidarność" Joined Campaign to Stop Nespressure
November 22, 2010
Russian unions picket at newly open Nespresso boutique in Moscow
IUF-affiliated locals of the Agro Industrial Workers Union and Confederation of Labour of Russia visited the brand new Nespresso boutique in Moscow. With the picket, they expressed their support for Indonesian Nestlé workers united in the SBNIP union, and their demand to fully recognise SBNIP collective bargaining rights at the Nescafé plant in Panjang, Indonesia. During the one-hour picket, the activists collected signatures for a petition which was then handed in to the manager of the boutique.
October 14, 2010
Unions Bring Indonesian Coffee Protest to the Streets of London
October 13, 2010
New York Hotel Workers Demand Full Recognition of SBNIP Bargaining Rights: No Justice - No Peace!
Members of the Hotel Trades Council, the union that represents 30,000 hotel and restaurant workers in New York, rallied at the Nespresso café boutique on 5th Avenue in solidarity with Nestlé workers in Indonesia. October 5, 2010.
October 11, 2010
UNIA Geneva: Decent Work for Nestle Workers Worldwide!
On October 7th - the World Day fo Decent Work, a group of trade union activists and supporters from UNIA, Switzerland's largest inter-professional union, put up banners and handed out leaflets in front of the Nespresso shop in Geneva in support of the Nestlé Panjang workers’ struggle for trade union rights.
October 10, 2010
Good Food, Good Life, Good Union - SBNIP!
October 06, 2010
Stop Nespressure! New York Hotel Workers Demand Full Recognition of SBNIP Bargaining Rights
October 05, 2010
Nestlé's Merchandisers March in Johannesburg for Dignity and Decent Pay
September 02, 2010
South Africa: Nestlé Shopstewards in Solidarity With Nescafe Panjang Workers
August 31, 2010
Australian Unions Protest Nestlé’s Suppression of Union Rights at Nescafé Indonesia/Protest shuts Sydney Nespresso shop
Australian unions in the state of New South Wales led by Unions NSW (formerly the Labour Council) held a demonstration on August 30 in front of the Nestlé-owned Nespresso shop in Sydney’s city center. The action, which resulted in the temporary closure by management of the Nespresso shop, was taken in support of the IUF-affiliated SBNIP representing workers at the Nescafé factory in Panjang, Indonesia.
July 22, 2010
Nestlé Defends Anti-Union Practices in Indonesia with…Nestlies
How many times can a company lie in the course of attempting to undermine a union? It is difficult to say if Nestlé, the world's largest food company, holds the record (the competition is stiff), but it is certainly an over-achiever…
July 20, 2010
Nespressure in South Africa: March for the Rights of Sales Workers!
Over 200 members of Food and Allied Workers’ Union (FAWU) marched to the Nestlé head office in Randburg on July 12, 2010, demanding decent jobs for merchandisers who are handling Nestle products in major supermarkets in South Africa.
July 19, 2010
Nestlé Waters Russia Bows to Pressure, Union Vice-Chair Reinstated
Management of Nestlé Waters Russia has declined to appeal the court-ordered reinstatement of Sergei Strykov, Vice-Chair of the union formed last year who was fired on January 27, 2010. Strykov has also been compensated for wages lost from January through May, while the union was fighting his illegal dismissal.
July 15, 2010
Germany: NGG calls for bona fide negotiations with SBNIP
Participants in the Nestlé Germany Works Council Conference, organised by the German Food Workers Union NGG on 23-24 June 2010, put their signatures on an open letter addressed to Nestlé CEO Paul Bulcke, in which they expressed their concern over events in Indonesia and the damage the company's actions were doing to the Nestlé brand.
June 14, 2010
Brazil: Ministry of Labor fines Nestlé for imposing long working hours
It doesn’t come as a surprise to see Nestlé breaching its own agreements. The transnational corporation has become a typical example of corporate cynicism. What’s truly surprising is that this time Brazil’s Labor Ministry has levied a fine of US$ 320,000 on Nestlé for violating an agreement with its workers. In what constitutes a very positive sign, the company has agreed to pay the fines through donations to various health institutions.
June 07, 2010
Stop Nespressure! New Rally at Nescafé Panjang Factory
On June 3, the Nestle Panjang Workers Union (SBNIP) organized a peaceful rally outside the Panjang factory demanding that Nestle management stop supporting the yellow union and start bargaining with SBNIP now.
June 03, 2010
Nestlé European Unions Demand Halt to Trade Union Rights Violations at Nescafé Indonesia
At the June 1 meeting of the Nestlé European Works Council in Geneva, Switzerland, representatives of twenty Nestlé unions from across Europe collectively called on the company to immediately halt all attempts to weaken the IUF's affiliate at the Nescafé factory in Panjang, Indonesia. The unions insisted that Nestlé enter into the wage bargaining talks the union has been demanding for 3 years.
May 16, 2010
South African Food Workers' Union Express Solidarity with Nestle Workers
National Executive Committee of Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) of South Africa expressed solidarity with Nestle workers worldwide and declared support to the campaign to Stop Nespressure. Members of the committee signed postcards to Nestle' CEO Paul Bulcke, demanding full recognition of SBNIP union at Nescafe Indonesia plant. FAWU is 120.000 members strong and is the largest food workers union in South Africa. Cape Town, May 12, 2010.
May 11, 2010
IUF Downgrades Nestlé CSR Rating from B+ to Junk
We never bought it, so we can't change the recommendation to sell - but we have taken a closer look at the rating put on Nestlé's Creating Shared Value Report 2009 in order to investigate the reporting criteria - and whether they've been met.
May 08, 2010
May Day International Solidarity with Nestle Workers
On International Labour Day, 1 May 2010, solidarity pickets and marches in Russia, Hungary and the Dominican Republic highlighted the growing anger of the workers' movement as they called on one of the world most powerful corporations to respect union rights. Photo: May Day rally in Moscow, Russia.
May Day Workers March in Panjang, Indonesia for Respect of Union Rights at Nestle
May 05, 2010
Dominican Republic: “No más Nespresión”, Justice for Nestle Workers!
On April 30, 2010 Dominican Republic Nestle workers (Nestle Workers Union – San Francisco, SITRANESTLESF) gathered in front of Nestlé ice cream shop to express their support to Nespressure campaign. Place: San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic.
April 28, 2010
Nestle and 'Zero Accidents': Can be Hazardous to Your Health!
Unions around the world will be mobilizing again on April 28, each in its way highlighting the 360,000 annual workplace fatalities and 2 million deaths from occupational diseases. On April 28, as on every other day, some 960,000 workers will be injured in an accident at work, and some 5,300 workers will die of work-related diseases.
April 26, 2010
Nescafe's suppression of trade union rights in Indonesia
April 20, 2010
Nestlé Indonesia Continues to Deny Wage Bargaining Rights!
April 16, 2010
Nesprofits - What Else?
Nestlé, the world's largest food corporation, is rolling in money. The 2009 results recently announced show sales topping USD 102 billion (94.6 billion in the core food and beverages division), operating profits of 14.85 billion (up on the previous year), margins (much beloved of financial analysts) hitting an enviable 14.6%, and a breathtaking 67% increase in cash flow, up from USD 6.81 billion in 2008 to 16.93 billion in 2009. Click here to continue reading.
March 29, 2010
Workers' Rights are Universal! Stop Nespressure Action in St.Petersburg, Russia
Nestle representatives refused to talk with worker activists waiting at the entrance to the Nestle regional office in St. Petersburg, Russia. The activists' solidarity action with workers in Russia and Indonesia was organized by the Center for Workers' Coordinated Action and supported by the Trade Union of Automobile Industry Workers, which is known for its successful strike at the Ford factory in St. Petersburg in 2007. Once again, Nestle refused to talk - the campaign Stop Nespressure will roll on throughout the world.
March 14, 2010
Global Dairy Workers Conference pledges support to Nestle workers, demands: Stop Nespressure!
Representatives of dairy workers' unions from 22 countries gathered for their second global conference on March 9-12, 2010 in Buenos Aires and Sunchales, Argentina. In sharing the information, delegates continually cited Nestle as a company where the abuse of trade union rights is common practice in various countries. In conclusion, the conference declared support to all Nestle workers currently facing pressure, and in particular to the union at Nestle Waters in Russia and its campaign for the reinstatement of fired union leader, Sergey Strykov.
March 12, 2010
Nestlé European Works Council Steering Committee denounces Nespressure in Indonesia, Tunisia, Russia, the UK, Hungary and Spain
While the union at Nestlé Indonesia in Panjang, SBNIP, continues to be denied the opportunity to exercise its right to negotiate wages and the Nestlé Tunisia Workers Union is struggling to obtain full implementation of an agreement which was signed by the company and the government labour authorities in January to end an industrial dispute, unions in Europe are experiencing pressure when exercising basic rights such as forming unions and defending the interests of their membership.
February 20, 2010
Uruguay Nestle Workers demand respect of union rights in Russia and Indonesia
Nestle workers picketed the gates of the factory in Montevideo on February 19, 2010 to demand recognition of union rights and fair treatment for Nestle employees in Indonesia and Russia.
January 06, 2010
Nestlé Workers in Tunisia Continue Industrial Action After Secret Sale of Ice Cream Factory
Workers, their union and the Federation of Food and Tourism Workers of Tunisia (FGAT) are demanding to know the facts behind Nestlé's secret sale of an ice cream factory. Click here to tell Nestlé, "Be fair to your Tunisian workers!"
December 15, 2009
Stop Nespressure! Respect union rights!
The Nestlé workers union in Timisoara/Romania (part of the IUF-affiliated food workers federation SINDALIMENTA) organised a rally in front of their factory on Monday 14 December "in solidarity with Nestlé workers throughout the world fighting for respect of universal labour rights including the right to negotiate wages as part of CBA negotiations".
December 05, 2009
Strike at Nestlé Tunisia after secret sale of ice cream factory
On 17 November 2009, workers at the Nestlé ice cream factory in Carthage were informed by a bulletin board notice that their factory had been sold to a consortium of local companies active in the food industry. "In conformity with its policy of social responsibility," the notice read, "Nestlé has expended all efforts to preserve jobs, the rights of the workers concerned, and maintain the production site."
November 30, 2009
Hungarian Meatworkers Union says Stop Nespressure!
The Congress of the Hungarian Meatworkers’ Union (HDSZ), which met in
November 09, 2009
Nespressure in Tunisia: Harassment and attacks on trade union rights
What happens when a new union committee is elected and its general secretary calls for a meeting with management to discuss pressing issues? Nestlé retaliates by transferring the union general secretary with immediate effect to a lower level job.
October 27, 2009
Nestlé Indonesia union leader in Switzerland
Eko Sumaryono, president of SBNIP, the union at the Nescafé factory in Panjang in Indonesia, met fellow trade unionists from the union UNIA in the towns of Orbe and Bern on 15-16 October 2009 while in Switzerland to attend an ILO event.
October 26, 2009
Nestlé, NestLies and ILO Convention 98
From October 12-15, the ILO's Bureau for Workers' Activities organized a symposium around the theme "Celebration of the 60th anniversary of Convention No. 98. The right to organize and collective bargaining in the twenty-first century." ILO Convention 98 (Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining), adopted in 1949, is one of the ILO's Core Conventions, i.e. fundamental treaties which are regarded as binding on all ILO member states whether they have been specifically ratified or not by governments. The Convention establishes in international law the rights of workers to organize trade unions and to bargain collectively with employers through these unions. Indonesia ratified Convention 98 in 1957. For over two-and-a-half years the SBNIP, the IUF's affiliate at the Nescafé factory in Panjang, Indonesia, has been attempting to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement which would include wages, and would include the wage scale in the agreement. Nestlé has rejected this demand, claiming that wages are a commercial secret and telling the union that it is Nestlé policy to exclude wages from collective bargaining.
October 24, 2009
Nespressure Mounts at Nescafé Indonesia - Act Now to Defend Trade Union Rights!
Nestlé's Corporate Business Principles "respect the right of employees to form representative organisations and to join – or not to join – trade unions, provided this right is freely exercised, and establish a constructive dialogue with these unions." Should employees need some guidance on this issue management is there to help. Business is good at the Nescafé factory in Panjang, Indonesia. Three-quarters of the output is exported to developed countries. The company is hiring. New hires are given two documents when they enter employment: the employment contract, and an application to join an organization called FKBNI, created and nurtured by the company to destroy the SBNIP, the union formed by workers.
September 15, 2009
Norwegian Unions Call on Government to Review State Pension Fund Investment at Nestlé
Fellesforbundet and the NNN, the IUF's Norwegian affiliates with membership in the food sector, together with the national trade union center LO, have publicly called on the Finance Ministry to conduct an evaluation to determine whether the State Pension Fund's investment in Nestlé is compatible with the Fund's ethical investment guidelines.
August 10, 2009
Nespressure in Latin America: Fighting for union rights in Argentina and Ecuador
When a laboratory technician at Nestlé's water bottling plant in the province of Buenos Aires decided to join the union, management decided to set an example for other laboratory technicians who might follow suit and fired him. This happened on Friday, July 31. After attempts by the union to reason with the company had failed, the workforce staged a walk-out on Monday bringing the plant to a standstill for almost 2 full days.
July 22, 2009
Nespressure: the bitter taste for Nescafe workers at Nestlé Indonesia
July 15, 2009
Unions Rally in Jakarta, Call on Nestlé to Respect Rights and Negotiate Now!
Following on the solidarity visit to Indonesia by the IUF-affiliated Food Industry Employees Union (FIEU) of Malaysia, the Nestlé Indonesia Panjang Workers Union SBNIP at Nestlé's Nescafé factory in Panjang continues to mobilize support for its struggle. A union delegation from Panjang travelled the 200 kilometers to Jakarta on the early morning of July 13 for rallies at the Nestlй head office.
July 14, 2009
UNIA and IUF demand global rights for Nestlé workers world-wide
The IUF and the Swiss union UNIA organised a joint press conference in the Swiss capital of Bern on 10 June to launch the "Stop Nespressure" campaign in Switzerland and call on Nestlй to Stop the Nespressure and respect fundamental trade union rights!
June 24, 2009
“STOP Nespressure and negotiate now!”, Malaysian Food Workers tell Nestlé Indonesia
A solidarity visit to Indonesia by ten trade unionists from the IUF-affiliated Food Industry Employees Union (FIEU) in Malaysia once again exposed Nestlé Indonesia management’s refusal to respect trade union rights at its Nescafé factory in Panjang as ‘discriminatory, irrational and unfair’. The visit culminated in a protest action in front of the Nestle Panjang factory.
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