Urgent Action Nestlé Pakistan attempts to blackmail workers challenging precarious jobs regime into renouncing their rights 05-12-2011
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 Lock out of New Zealand meat workers entering its 3rd month 14-12-2011
Over 100 sheep processing workers have been locked out from the CMP Rangitikei plant since October 19 for refusing to accept up to 20% in pay cuts, shift changes and reductions in allowances.
Sodexo and IUF Sign International Framework Agreement 13-12-2011
Sodexo, the world’s 21st largest employer with 391,000 employees worldwide, and the International Union of Food Workers (IUF) have announced the signing of an agreement confirming Sodexo’s commitments to respect fundamental rights at work, namely freedom of association and collective bargaining.
Urgent Action Stop attack on Argentine rural workers’ social security! 12-12-2011
The Argentine Agricultural workers Union, UATRE, is calling for urgent assistance to defend the agricultural workers social security system, RENATRE.
Challenging Precarious_Work @ Nestlé.Kabirwala.com 05-12-2011
Nestlé's dairy factory in Kabirwala, Pakistan, depends on the daily labour of hundreds of precarious workers provided by contractors on a no work, no pay basis. When the union became engaged in assisting long-serving precarious workers to obtain direct, permanent employment status - as prescribed by law - management responded with mass dismissals, provocations, police charges and physical assault by the labour contractor and goons.
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.
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