At the initiative of the IUF Latin American Region(REL-UITA), a meeting of meat unions and government officials from Argentina and Brazil was convened in Buenos Aires on November 27 where a groundbreaking agreement was signed to promote cooperation and assistance in government labour policies and on the elimination of human trafficking.

Members of the IUF-affiliated National Union of Workers (NUW) have ended their occupation of the lunchroom at PepsiCo's Smith's snack foods warehouse in the Brisbane suburb of Tingalpa for the best of reasons - the union has signed an agreement which puts in place an equal pay system for casual workers and converts casual to permanent positions after 12 months.

Fifteen thousand food and farm workers filled the streets of Rome on November 29 in a protest against the Rienzi government's proposed Jobs Act which will make it easier for companies to downsize, lay off workers and make wider use of precarious contracts in the name of greater labour market 'flexibility'. The action was organized by the IUF's affiliates FLAI-CGIL and UILA-UIL.

On November 9, 2014 workers at the Nicaraguan logistics company which markets and distributes products made by PepsiCo's flagship Central American bottler Embotelladora Nacional S.A. (ENSA) formed a union in Managua. Within 24 hours the company fired 70 members and leaders.

IUF members around the world continue to show solidarity with the Hong Kong democracy movement and the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, whose members took strike action on September 29 in support of the movement and remain actively involved. Most recently, on November 17, the IUF-affiliated ACV-CSC food and services union in Belgium declared their solidarity and support for their Hong Kong trade union colleagues and "the fight of the people of Hong Kong for democratic elections."

Workers at the Nestlé/Lotte joint venture went on strike on 13 November after the company refused to accept a Supreme Court decision from December 2013 that declared that regular bonuses should be calculated as part of ordinary wages. The decision was further formalized by a Corrective Order issued by the Ministry of Employment in October this year. Other TNC's have complied with the ruling.

Thousands of people took to the streets in 17 locations around New Zealand on November 8 to show their opposition to the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). The rallies were organized by the "It's our Future" coalition and sponsored by the New Zealand national trade union center NZCTU and its affiliates.

Belgian trade unions brought 130,000 people from across the country on to the streets of Brussels November 6 to condemn the government's new austerity program. The new measures would reduce wage earners' purchasing power by 2% annually through changes to cost-of-living indexation, impose limitations on wage bargaining, reduce unemployment benefits and support for young job-seekers and raise the retirement age from 65 to 67 years, among other regressive measures.

The IUF Danish affiliate NNF expressed solidarity with Jen Pulaski and the UFCW by publicizing her case to members and requesting that Danish company Tulip, owned by Danish Crown, protest to Hormel about the dismissal of a union activist. Tulip manufactures Spam products for Hormel.

Unions of rural development workers in Niger, representing public employees in agricultural research and engineering, agronomists and water resource specialists have announced a 5-day strike for November 3-7 as they continue to fight for essential benefits and pay equity with other public sector workers denied them since 2008.  

A worker at the Olam Interntional sugar mill in Kolhapur (Maharashtra) India was killed by falling sugar bags in a workplace accident on August 8 which also severely injured two other workers. According to the union representing plant workers, the factory has a long history of workplace accidents. But Singapore-based Olam, a major transnational commodity processor and trader, last year received a USD 120 million loan from the World Bank's private lending arm IFC, whose lending criteria ostensibly include safety, social and environmental safeguards.