Nespressure

SBNIP Picket in Panjang

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:30:53 +0000

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.

Stop Nespressure! New action in Gujranwala

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:21:27 +0000

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.

Stop Nespressure in Toronto

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:07:15 +0000

Trade union activists staged a demonstration in front of the Nespresso shop in a crowded underground mall area in Toronto on January 6.

Nestle workers bring demand to Stop Nespressure to the streets of Karachi

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:03:08 +0000

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.

Stop Nespressure in Pakistan! NFFBTW announced protest actions in seven cities

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:06:12 +0000

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.

Nestlé's end of year lottery - on the wrong shift? OK then "you're fired"

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:47:00 +0000

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.

Action in Berlin: union and social activists demand to Stop Nespressure!

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:10:44 +0000

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.

Solidarity without borders: Occupy Nespresso Soho

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:46:56 +0000

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.

Nestlé tells Pakistan contract workers 'Give up your rights, now and forever!' Mass dismissals, jail, beatings and now blackmail

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:02:24 +0000

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

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:49:10 +0000

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.

Stop Nespressure! Panjang independent unions solidarity rally in support of Nescafe workers

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:52:41 +0000

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

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:15:27 +0000

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.

Special RadioLabour report on Nespressure in Pakistan and Indonesia

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:27:37 +0000

November 29 and 30th RadioLabour is broadcasting a special report on Nestlé’s mistreatment of workers in the developing world. November 29th programme Part One looks at how Nestlé keeps workers in precarious employment at a milk factory in Pakistan. In November 30th broadcast Part Two look at how Nestlé fights unions in Indonesia.To listen click here.

Kabirwala union members vow to continue the struggle for employment, trade union rights – in Pakistan and Indonesia

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:25:43 +0000

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.

Jail, bail, dismissals - criminalizing the struggle for decent work at Nestlé Pakistan

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:00:31 +0000

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