Urgent Action Ivory Coast union leader still held under harsh conditions - Act Now! 21-11-2011
Basile Mahan Gahé, general secretary of the national trade union center Dignité (whose food and hotel section is affiliated to the IUF) has been transferred from detention in Abidjan to a prison in Boundiali, where he is reportedly only given one meal a day. The trade union leader was kidnapped from his Abidjan home on April 26 and held without charges.
Urgent Action Nespressure returns with mass dismissal of union members in Indonesia/provocation and attacks on union leader in Pakistan 24-10-2011
Management pressure on workers and their unions continues at Nestlé, the world's largest food company
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Urgent Action Women hotel workers in Cambodia fight illegal mass firings 02-12-2011
Workers unfairly terminated for trade union organizing at the five star Angkor Village Hotel and Angkor Village Botanical Resort Hotel in Siem Reap, Cambodia, are fighting for their rights, their jobs and their union - and need your support.
Hong Kong, Korean unions demonstrate against escalating anti-union attacks in Fiji 01-12-2011
On November 24, the IUF-affiliated Hong Kong catering and hotel workers' union CHIEGU and the HKCTU, the national center of which it is a member, held a protest action in front of the Honorary Consulate of Fiji to highlight escalating attacks on human rights and growing repression of the trade union movement by the military government of Commodore Bainimarama.
UN Special Rapporteur calls for overhaul of WTO rules to ensure the right to food 30-11-2011
As governments prepare for the December 15-177 WTO ministerial meeting in Geneva, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, has issued a series of recommendations for overhauling world trade rules if governments are to fulfill their obligation to ensure the right to food in an increasingly hungry world.
Union negotiates more permanent jobs at Coca-Cola Lahore, union membership rises 30-11-2011
On 26 November 2011, 39 long-term casual workers received their permanent appointment letters at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Lahore.This is part of the ongoing negotiations by the Coca-Cola unions in the IUF-affiliated National Federation of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Workers (NFFBTW), to increase the proportion of permanent jobs and reduce precarious work at Coca-Cola Pakistan’s six bottling plants.
Jail, bail, dismissals - criminalizing the struggle for decent work at Nestlé Pakistan 28-11-2011
Contract workers claiming their rights at Nestlé's dairy factory in Kabirwala, Pakistan have been punished with the loss of their jobs and jailed by the score on fabricated charges as management seeks to criminalize the union's struggle in support of permanent jobs for contract workers.
Dairy Division informal leadership group meets in New Zealand 27-11-2011
What follows is the content of an e-mail from James Ritchie, National Secretary of the NZDWU to Hector Ponce, General Secretary of ATILRA and Oscar Marozzi, Assistant General Secretary of ATILRA following the meeting of the informal leadership group of the dairy division of the IUF in NZ, 16-18 November 2011. Due to a series of problems with Argentinean airspace, the ATILRA delegation was unable to attend the meeting.
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