Unions and management at the Turnhout H.J.Heinz plant in Belgium have reached an agreement on a social plan and packages to compensate the job loses for almost 190 employees after the factory shuts down.

PMI plans to end cigarette manufacturing in the Netherlands and Australia and eliminate some 1600 jobs.

A new study released by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) confirms what workers in the poultry industry have been saying for decades-it is among the most dangerous places to work in America.

Ferrero's state-of-the art US$125 million Kinder Joy and Tic Tac factory in India exploits over 1,400 precarious workers on minimum wages.  Italian-based, family-owned Ferrero employs over 20,000 people worldwide in the manufacture of Nutella, Ferrero Rocher, Kinder, Tic Tac and Hanuta products, among others.

Workers at the Cargill-owned National Vegetable Oils Company in Alexandria, Egypt, have been prevented from working since December 16.

The international campaign in solidarity with imprisoned oil workers in Kazakhstan has delivered results. The campaign, supported by the IUF, IndustriAll, the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Kazakhstan and the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia. Within three months of the campaign launch over 11,400 letters were sent through LabourStart from around the world to Kazakhstan diplomatic missions, demanding freedom for the imprisoned oil workers.

On March 29, leaders and members of the IUF-affiliated Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) along with activists from the Fast Food Rights campaign held demonstrations in front of fast food restaurants in 31 cities across the UK. (click here for more).

IUF dairy division members call on their respective Governments to abandon the current model of investment agreements and to conduct trading relationships which respect human rights and promote food security and economic sovereignty.

The United States government has charged transnational cereal-maker Kellogg's with multiple and serious violations of federal labour law in connection with the lockout of more than 220 union workers in Memphis.

In February 2013, the IUF and the London-based NGO Tourism Concern agreed to cooperate in investigating the impact of "All-inclusive" tourism on workers and their families. The research is now completed and was presented at a launch event at the UK House of Commons on March 24.

A day before rallies in opposition to NZ signing the TPPA take place throughout the country, the IUF affiliated SFWU has warned that the investment treaty threatens thousands of their members' jobs.

The Argentinian dairy union's technology education center in Sunchales, Santa Fe is a modern well designed facility aimed at providing university level education in the skills of dairy processing, research and innovation.

Unions across India have held protest actions in solidarity with the ongoing struggle of the PepsiCo (Frito Lays) Workers Action Committee in Kolkata.

The pay differential between the CEO and a low-paid worker at PepsiCo is now 14,055:1. CEO Indra Nooyi’s total compensation for 2013 came to USD 18.6 million – a 7% jump over the previous year’s package. A worker at PepsiCo’s warehouses in West Bengal, India would need 14,055 years to earn what the top boss made – providing they renounced their human rights and managed to keep the job. In 2013, workers at three warehouses organized a union, submitted their demands and were brutally fired.

The international meeting of Heinz unions took place in Pittsburgh, USA in March 13-14, 2014 on the initiative and with support of IUF affiliated United Food and Commercial Workers' Union.