...skills, or seniority (over 20% of the workforce) have been taken on in the midst of what the company contends is a production downturn… but is clearly a show of...
...around the globe by this company. Unilever is one of the largest producers of tea bags (brands Brooke Bond and Lipton) and is becoming more and more the focus of...
...first Walker-compliant annual report. Here’s what they have to say, for example, about the job they did on Danish telecommunications company TDC, which they took over as part of a...
...to end the company’s disposal employment regime at other production sites. At the company’s consumer product factory in Rahim Yar Khan, for example, where Unilever’s employment practices are yet again...
...Foundation’s participation in this competition was unacceptable in view of the parent company’s record of vicious union-busting. Unions and NGOs in Pakistan representing thousands of people also sent petitions to...
...and other multilateral organizations as the basis for expansion and further integration of the global financial services sector. If the G20 seemed to dither, Ackermann and company have a clear...
...operational excellence, selling billions of products to consumers across the world, day after day.” So why aren’t Nestlé workers sharing in the billions in extra profits? While the company joyfully...
...adults or their children and babies. This is certainly true for Nestlé, the world’s largest food company. It is true not least because Nestlé does invest in ensuring rigorous standards....
...much less represent a real increase, and it was “non-negotiable”. When Nestlé’s violations of ILO Conventions and the OECD Guidelines were exposed, the company went so far as to offer...
...company as Nestlé personnel by accident of “employee arrangement” are employed on inferior terms and conditions to the ever-decreasing number of permanent workers and are excluded from most benefit schemes....
“Our biggest social responsibility on a global basis is job creation.” – Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe Nestlé Corporate Business Principles proclaim the company’s commitment to respecting workers’ freedom of association...
...local brands and grabbing bigger market shares. The takeover boom continued into the first half of the 1990s and was complemented by a massive shift in company financial resources into...