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First International Conference of the

Latin American Federation of InBev Workers

Letter from Buenos Aires

 

InBev is the leading beer company in the world, holding the largest share of the global market, with 27.6 percent, and yielding 23 billion liters of beer a year, which is equivalent to a world consumption of 3.8 liters per capita.

 

At present, one of every four beers sold in the world is produced by an InBev Group company.

 

The largest deals made in the brewery sector since 2000 to date mobilized a total of 58.7 billion dollars. This huge amount of money would be enough to cover the following social actions:

 

·         Purchasing facilities to supply potable water and sanitation at low costs for 1.2 billion people;

 

·         Fully eradicating tuberculosis and malaria;

 

·         Feeding 1.3 billion children for a month;

 

·         Providing complete primary education for 340 million unschooled children.

 

This process of mergers and acquisitions, which mobilized so many billions of dollars and led to the creation of the InBev Group, among other conglomerates, has entailed for workers, however, a massive loss of jobs, the closure of factories around the world, the casualization of labor and the deterioration of salary conditions.

 

The First International Conference of the Latin American Federation of InBev Workers, gathered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, identified as their key common goals the reduction of the workday without lowering wages, the elimination of outsourcing schemes, labor casualization and salary instability, and the definite abolition of the hour bank, as well as of the systems of organization at the workplace that in the name of competitiveness isolate workers from each other and individualize their targets and working conditions with the actual aim of wearing away worker solidarity.

 

Lastly, the Federation decided to declare an International InBev Trade Union Action Day, on a date to be defined soon.

 

Buenos Aires, September 18, 2008

 

 

 

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