10 million dollar bonus for Mondelez (ex-Kraft) CEO after less than 3 months on the job!

23.01.13 News

Mondelez CEO Irene Rosenfeld has been granted a USD 10 million 'special equity award' of stock in the new company, less than three months after Mondelez was ripped out of the former Kraft Foods Inc.

2 weeks of nationwide warning strikes at Coca-Cola Germany to stop job cuts

22.01.13 News

Thousands of workers from Germany`s largest beverage company, Coca-Cola (CCE AG) organized by IUF affiliated NGG will be staging 2 weeks of warning strikes at about 60 sites of Coca-Cola in Germany against the company`s plan over restructuring, job cuts and more flexible working hours.

Swiss Unia wins 5-year battle with Domino's Pizza

21.01.13 News

The IUF- affiliated Unia has won a major victory in its 5-year fight for the rights of 14 Domino's Pizza workers in Geneva. Unia has successfully established that home-delivery restaurants were covered under the national hotel/restaurant agreement and revealed the scandalous working conditions at Domino's.

Struggle for worker rights, recognition continues at Station Casinos after National Labor Relations Board upholds finding of massive unfair labor practices

15.01.13 Urgent Action

Housekeeping and restaurant workers at Las Vegas casino-hotels owned by Station Casinos LLC and operated by Fertitta Entertainment LLC continue to fight for a fair process to exercise their right to union organization following the October 2 decision of the National Labor Relations Board to uphold an earlier legal ruling that the company committed 87 unfair labor practices in its anti-union campaign.

New Zealand union support for Maldives Hilton union struggle targets foreign ministry

10.01.13 News

New Zealand's Service and Food Workers Union (SFWU) is targeting the Foreign Ministry in support of the struggle for reinstatement of 22 unfairly dismissed union workers at the Conrad Hilton Rangali Islands Resort in Maldives.

McDonald's Italy: reality vs. media hype

09.01.13 News

McDonald's employees

In Italy, 80% of McDonald's' workers have a part-time contract, which guarantees only a few hours every week and a montlhy wage of about 600€. Yet, as part of a recent media campaign, McDonald's loudly proclaims its intention to hire 3000 workers over the next three years, underlining that workers are paid on time, that they are hired within the law, and that the National Collective Agreement for the tourism sector is regularly applied to their 16,000 employees.

German Food Workers mobilize against outsourcing, wage dumping at meat giant Vion

07.01.13 News

Dutch-based meat transnational Vion has again become a target for action by the German Food Workers Union (NGG) following the announcement that Vion will subcontract slaughtering operations at its Emsteck (Lower Saxony) plant to a Romanian subcontractor whose workers will earn sub-poverty wages.

Landmark ruling on 'employer free speech' and freedom of association in Israel

04.01.13 News

Israel's National Labor Court on January 2 ruled that a company whose employees seek to unionize must refrain from expressing its views on the subject in communications with employees either individually or as a group. The ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed with the Court by the national center Histradrut concerning anti-union actions at the communications company Pelephone.

Ivory Coast union leader Basile Mahan Gahé leaves jail but charges still weigh

28.12.12 News

Basile Mahan Gahé, general secretary of the Ivory Coast national trade union center Dignité, was freed from prison on December 22, following his abduction, torture and 18 months of detention. His release however is conditional.

Government of France says Accor violated international guidelines on responsible business conduct

26.12.12 News

Following two years of investigation into a complaint brought by the IUF on behalf of affiliates in Canada and Bénin, the French government's National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises has determined that Accor consistently violated the Guidelines and that "blockages" must be overcome for Accor to be in compliance.

Big moves in North American dairy sector.

20.12.12 News

December 2012 was a big month for takeovers and expansion in the North American Dairy market.

PepsiCo signs $50m deal with Beyonce and orders plant closure for its workers

18.12.12 News

PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have spent over $330 million on campaigns involving entertainment and sports figures in 2012. Pepsi's move is in line with its new campaign, "Live for Now," that positions the brand on the pop-culture forefront around the world.

FrieslandCampina to modernise in German plants, 230 jobs will be cut

18.12.12 News

FrieslandCampina has announced that investment in its German plants in Cologne, Gütersloh and Heilbronn will eliminate 230 jobs.

French ban on toxic bisphenol A should spur wider regulatory action

14.12.12 Editorial

The French Parliament on December 13 voted to ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in infant food packaging beginning January 1, 2013 and from all food contact packaging beginning in 2015.

Australian union rally for ratification of ILO Convention 189 on Domestic Workers

14.12.12 News

IUF Asia/Pacific Regional Secretary Ma Wei Pin joined a rally by the affiliated United Voice at the Philippines Consulate in Sydney to press for wide ratification of ILO Convention 189 on domestic workers. A message was delivered congratulating the government of the Philippines as the first country in the region to ratify the Convention.

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