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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:
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Purchasing facilities to supply potable
water and sanitation at low costs for 1.2
billion people;
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Fully eradicating tuberculosis and malaria;
·
Feeding 1.3 billion children for a month;
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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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