AMERICAN LABOUR:TELL KROGERS TO DEMAND PROOF:The United Farm Workers (UFW) have fought long and hard to unionize grape pickers at Giumarra Vineyards and improve the dismal working conditions there. As part of their campaign they have pressured Giumarra…
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ANARCHIST BOOKFAIRS:TWIN CITIES ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR:They’re popping up here, there and everywhere; far too many to keep track of. Anarchist Bookfairs have become a favoured method of gathering and exchange between the ever expanding anarchist communitie…
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CANADIAN LABOUR BRITISH COLUMBIA: CHARGES FINALLY LAID TWO YEARS LATER AFTER MUSHROOM FARM DEATHS:No one can accuse the “justice” system of being in undue haste over this one. Two years after 3 workers were killed and two others injured at an industria…
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A DO-GOODERS' WET DREAM:
Eat your broccoli and get 'the help you need". A social worker's dream. A normal person's nightmare.
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR INDONESIA:NESTLE WORKERS STRUGGLE FOR THEIR RIGHTS:The following struggle for union representation has been going on for
three years now, and the
Nestlé corporation is unbending in its determination to prevent its Indonesian workers from having independent representation. Here's the story from the international union federation the
IUF.
ILILILILILNo more Nestlies! Stop Discrimination and Union-busting at Nestlé Indonesia!
Nestlé is determined to stop the
SBNIP, the union representing workers at its Indonesian
Nescafé factory, from negotiating a collective agreement which includes wages. In response to pressure from the
IUF,
Nestlé has conceded the union's right to negotiate wages, but now insists that the union must bargain jointly with a 'Communication Forum' (
FKBNIP) which the company itself created and supports in an attempt to undermine the legitimacy and membership of the
SBNIP. The
SBNIP rightly rejects bargaining jointly with a management-sponsored organisation. In April,
Nestlé again imposed a unilaterally-determined wage system with no negotiations.
The struggle for basic trade union rights at
Nestlé Panjang continues, and the
SBNIP needs your support.
ILILILILILTHE LETTER:Please go to this link to send the following letter to Nestlé management.ILILILILILTo Paul Bulcke, CEO
Frits van Dijk, Executive Vice President, Zone AOA
CC Jean-Marc Duvoisin, Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Nigel Isherwood, Assistant Vice President, Human Resources, Zone AOA
Enrique Rueda, Corporate Employee Relations Manager
Arshad Chaudhry, Managing Director, Nestlé Indonesia
Dear Sirs,
Management at the Nescafé factory in Panjang, Indonesia, still denies the right of the SBNIP to negotiate wages through collective bargaining. SBNIP members face discrimination and pressure. I call upon Nestlé to fully respect trade union rights, stop fighting the SBNIP, stop promoting the company union and immediately engage in good faith collective bargaining negotiations with the SBNIP as the representative of the Panjang workers for collective bargaining.
Yours sincerely,
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AMERICAN LABOUR NEW YORK: MOTTS STRIKE GOES PAST 100 DAY MARK:Molly has blogged before on the strike at the Motts’ production facility in Williamson New York (see here, here, here, here and here). At least one of those posts gathered quite a bit of com…
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