Stop Nespressure! Leafleting and press conference in Moscow
As part of the continuing campaign for the reinstatement of Sergei Strykov, trade union activists distributed leaflets in front of the Nespresso boutique in Moscow on 26 February. The boutique’s manager was handed a letter of protest against the company’s constantly applied practice of pressurizing trade union activists, a practice which has already acquired its own name - Nespressure. However, the letter was refused, in a typical display of Nestle arrogance and contempt for public opinion.
The outrageous dismissal of Sergei Strykov, one of the leaders of Nestle Waters workers’ trade union, at the end of January, has provoked a wave of protest both in Russia and abroad. Nevertheless, the company’s management keeps ignoring the numerous protests which are coming from the trade unions. In Russia the company has commissioned the task of answering the protest letters to Mr. Tratsevsky – the director of the plant who initiated the anti-union campaign and the dismissal of Sergei Strykov. Such undisguised cynicism with regard to the rights of workers reveals the true value of the company’s claims concerning “shared value”.
In the meantime, this Nestlé’s actions have attracted the increasing attention of Russian mass media and were highlighted at a press conference dedicated which was held on 18 February at the independent press center in Moscow.
