After the announcement of Kraft splitting into two separate companies, analysts on wall Street started to question whether US food and drinks giant PepsiCo could also consider dividing itself in two.

The analysts speculate about the split of PepsiCo given the seemingly changed tone from CEO Indra Nooyi and often discussing PepsiCo as a tale of two companies.

IUF affiliate PAM  has surveyed hotel room cleaners, asking questions about their experiences of sexual harassment in the workplace.

Six Coca-Cola unions jointly negotiated their plant-level Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) with Coca-Coca Pakistan Beverages Limited (CCBPL) through national bargaining for the first time ever.

A twenty-two day strike by workers at Peru's upscale La Ibérica chocolate maker - including a week's hunger strike - have resulted in a new collective agreement which brings important gains. Ibérica is a hundred-year-old family enterprise with a single factory in the southern city of Arequjipa but outlets throughout the country. Ninety-five of the factory's one hundred workers are women.

Members of the BCTGM Local 48G at the Keokuk, Iowa Roquette facility voted on July 23 to agree a settlement in the conflict which saw them locked out of their jobs since September 28 last year. Work is expected to resume next week.

UNITE HERE brought hundreds of airline catering workers from across the US to rally in support of their demands on July 14 at the headquarters of the parent company, German airline Lufthansa, in East Meadow, New York. The workers have been without a contract since January 2010.

The government of Fiji, which abrogated the Constitution following the 2009 coup which brought it to power, has stepped up its aggression against both private and public sector unions.

On June 10 more than half of the workers of IUF-affiliated UAB union "Svyturys-Utenos alus", voted in favour of strike action at the Carlsberg brewery in Lithuania in support of their demand for a decent company level collective agreement.

In a meeting between Coca-Cola Philippines Bottlers Inc. (CCBPI) management and the IUF-affiliated Alliance of Coca-Cola Unions Philippines (ACCUP) on 14 June, the company committed to 741 new permanent jobs in 2012. This will be the first step in reversing more than a decade of outsourcing and casualization that destroyed permanent jobs and drastically reduced union membership in 19 bottling plants and distribution centres across the country.

As Kraft Foods bursts into the Indian market, its famous Oreo biscuits and wafers are produced through three layers of precarious employment: outsourced production (or third-party manufacturing); casual employment; and no employment contracts....

Workers at Heinz’ sauces factory in Girgarre, in Australia, set to close in January 2012 with the loss of 146 jobs, had four hours’ pay docked on 17 June after attending a one-hour union meeting.

An IUF mission to Guatemala following the May 26 murder of SITRABI leader Idar Joel Hernandez Godoy has resulted in an initiative for a joint working group with the prosecutor's office to investigate and prosecute those guilty of crimes against trade unionists.

Nearly two weeks after launching an unlimited strike at the Prolesur dairy plant in Osorno, Chile, 120 members of the Chilean Federation of Dairy Company Workers' Unions (FENATRAL) have won a collective agreement bringing substantial gains in wages and benefits. Prolesur is a subsidiary of Soprole, Chile's largest dairy company, which is 99.8% owned by New Zealand-based Fonterra.

Amnesty International (AI) has launched a global campaign for worker's rights in Iran, officially kicked off at a June 10 press conference at the ILO in Geneva organized jointly with IUF, ITF, Education International (EI) and the ITUC.

Workers at the Kraft Foods Belgium Halle Côte d'Or factory called a 48-hour strike on June 20 in response to the management announcement that up to a quarter of the plant's 400 jobs could be eliminated in a restructuring operation that would see production of 3 of the plant's iconic products - Côte d'Or Chokotoff, Bouchées and Mignonnettes - transferred to Kaunas (Lithuania), Bratislava (Slovakia), and Wroclaw (Poland), respectively.