At least 34 people are so far known to have been killed in the September 10 explosion and fire at the Tampaco Foils factory near Dhaka in Bangladesh. The factory produced packaging for local and multinational companies, including British American Tobacco and Nestlé - companies which will now need to again examine how they monitor and enforce their supplier codes and how they plan to meet their clear obligations as customers of this factory.
The IUF-affiliated SENTRO has called on the government of the Philippines to swiftly investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators of the September 17 assassination of Orlando Abangan, a union and community organizer who was shot dead outside his home in Cebu. Abangan, who had assisted SENTRO in organizing a union of power industry workers in Cebu and was active in organizing informal workers and persons with disabilities, was also an outspoken critic of the extrajudicial killings which have accompanied the government's 'war on drugs'. 
Thousands of union members and supporters marched through the center of Melbourne, Australia on September 8 in support of union members at Carlton United Breweries whose employment conditions came under brutal attack when they were told their pay would be cut by 65% under the terms of a new sub-contracting arrangement. The unions rejected the company's diktat and have maintained round-the-clock protests at the plant.
PepsiCo management at the company's Frito-Lay plant in Lahore, Pakistan has responded to the formation and official registration of a trade union with 650 members by harassing and transferring union officers and seeking to violate the union's collective bargaining rights by creating a bogus union. 
Update: An agreement was reached bringing an end to the conflict between the union at the SABMiller Sonepat brewery and the SABMiller India management.
The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) is an international federation of trade unions representing workers employed in agriculture and plantations; the preparation and manufacture of food and beverages; hotels, restaurants and catering services; all stages of tobacco processing. The IUF is composed of 425 affiliated trade unions in 127 countries representing over 10 million workers.
How to contact the IUF:
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Post: Rampe du Pont-Rouge, 8, CH-1213, Petit-Lancy (Switzerland)
Phone: + 41 22 793 22 33
Fax: + 41 22 793 22 38
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How to contact the IUF:
Email: [email protected]
Post: Rampe du Pont-Rouge, 8, CH-1213, Petit-Lancy (Switzerland)
Phone: + 41 22 793 22 33
Fax: + 41 22 793 22 38
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