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.
The IUF is constantly working on extending union networks in transnational companies. In December 2010, the IUF PepsiCo Union network was founded. In order to inform PepsiCo workers not yet part of the network about this strong tool for mutual solidarity, a new leaflet now informs about the purpose and objectives of the network.
Submitted by Pepsico Worker on Wed, 02/06/2010 - 13:45
Food and beverage workers organised in Polish IUF-affiliate Solidarnosc discussed organising strategies May 26-28 in Lodz, Poland. Workers representatives from a number of TNCs and Polish owned companies including Frito-Lay (Pepsico), Coca-Cola, Bahlsen, Mars, Cadbury, and Odra developed communication and planning capacities to grow union strength.
In the discussions, the rampant casualisation of the workforce, in some cases up to 50% of the workforce, was identified as one of the main obstacles to building union strength and serious violation of workers right to organise.