Kommunal, IUF's affiliate in Sweden representing  agricultural  and horticultural workers has for several years been assisting migrant workers. Kommunal produces a brochure explaining the working system  and giving information about minimum wage levels,  working time and  health and safety regulations.

IUF Food unions in Australasia have pledged greater cooperation in the fight to defend permanent decent jobs in the food processing sector.

Many migrant workers find it impossible to get healthcare as they travel around the US doing farm work. They often have no health insurance, are afraid of being reported to immigration and have language constraints.

The Global March against child labour (GM), a coalition of trade unions and NGOs, has adopted a comprehensive Framework of Action against child labour in agriculture. The Framework was developed at an international conference in Washington from July 28-30, 2012.

Secret  negotiations are taking place between trade representatives from the United States, Singapore, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Peru and Vietnam.

Since May, work stoppages and overtime bans have been in place at JBS Australia's Dinmore beef plant when pay talks between the company and the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) broke down.

As a solution to an unforeseen rise in production costs at the Perugina chocolate factory, Nestlé has made a proposal to the union committee under the guise of a "generational pact to promote youth employment": Reduce your hours from 40 to 30 and, in return, we'll hire your son or daughter!

IUF affiliated unions in Turkey and Dutch national centre FNV representatives were excluded by the Labour Ministry from a round table conference on child labour in hazelnut harvesting on July 4.

When Baskin Robbins opened its ice cream plant in Eumsung in 1993 workers were employed on permanent contracts but in 2001 they were outsourced, forcibly transferred to an in-house contractor SeoHee Industrial doing the same jobs.

The ILO’s hotel, catering and tourism expert Wolfgang Weinz stressed this point after the publishing of the report titled “Migrant workers in the international hotel industry” (available on line in English here)

On July 21, the Asahi Shimbun revealed that workers employed by a contractor at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's stricken Fukishima nuclear plant were ordered to wrap with lead the dosimeters which register their radiation exposure in order to allow them to continue working beyond the danger threshold.

Dairy workers with YoCream, a division of French food group Danone, voted overwhelmingly to join IUF-affiliated Teamsters Local 305 in Portland, Ore., seeking better conditions and a voice at work.