Mondelez

About 1,300 workers at three Cadbury (Mondelez) sites in the United Kingdom have reached a two-year pay agreement that addresses increased cost of living. The agreement also includes an improvement in maternity pay.

Irene Rosenfeld announced her retirement from Mondelez International on August 2, 2017. Replacing Rosenfeld as Mondelez CEO effective November 2017 is Dirk Van de Put who is currently Chairman and CEO of McCain Foods.

On May 17, members from North American IUF affiliates BCTGM and UFCW rallied in advance of the Mondelez shareholder meeting in Lincolnshire, Illinois to show their commitment to defending quality employment at the company they have helped to build. Over 18 labour organizations were present to express their support; Letters of solidarity from IUF affiliates were also read out to rally participants.

Please click on the following link to view information on Mondelez IUF union activities in Korean.

On February 15, 2017, nearly 400 Mondelez workers in Dunedin, New Zealand and their union E Tu were informed that the historic Cadbury factory in their hometown would be closing with production offshored to other sites. Mondelez is a corporation driven by financial short-termism and aggressive cost cutting, which is resulting in the destruction of quality jobs. Consequently, Mondelez workers across the world have known only sell-offs, closures, outsourcing and permanent restructuring ripping jobs out of communities.

But, the fight is not over to keep the Dunedin factory open. E Tu, its members and Dunedin urgently need your solidarity and support.

Please send messages of solidarity to Sarah Meyer ([email protected]) at the IUF Secretariat, which will then be forwarded to E Tu. Let Dunedin and its Mondelez Cadbury workers know that they are not alone and that they are part of an international effort to #savequalityjobs at Mondelez.

Mondelez, like many other big consumer packaged goods companies, continues to struggle with consumer demand shifts towards healthy, organic and fresh food. One of the reasons for Mondelez's troubles is that large food companies like Mondelez are being managed with a focus on financial short-termism, not as food and beverage companies with a long-term vision.

IUF affiliates LBC-NVK and BBTK protested today in front of Mondelez-Mechelen against job destruction. In 2015, Mondelez-Mechelen's workforce declined by 10% and will decline by another 20% in 2017.

IUF Mondelez unions demand investment in the future of the company and its brands and an end to the continuous restructuring and financial short-termism which is driving the destruction of quality jobs at Mondelez. The IUF and its affiliated Mondelez unions and membership further demand immediate negotiations around all restructuring actions with affected unions.

IUF affiliated unions from over 13 countries rallied yesterday at European Mondelez head office to signal their determination to save the facilities, the brands, the skills and experience which built the company from the current management's reckless financial mismanagement. IUF Mondelez unions demand investment in the future of the company and its brands and an end to the financial short-termism which is driving the destruction of quality permanent jobs at Mondelez.

Mondelez is a particularly aggressive employer because of its strategic reliance on high and unsustainable levels of debt for funding top management and large shareholders at the expense of investment in building a sustainable food business.

Because of its precarious financial structure and strategy, Mondelez relies on short-term fixes and aggressive cost cutting to boost margins rather than increasing sales volume and investing in innovation. But costs cannot be endlessly cut before they endanger the business as a whole.

Read more in the latest IUF Mondelez Union Network: click here to read, download and distribute!