12-19-2007 Nicaragua
Institutional crisis
and “role playing”
Nearly a year into his new term as President of the
Republic,
Daniel Ortega faces a brutal institutional crisis
Giorgio Trucchi
12-17-2007 Dominican Republic
The transnational corporation goes from bad to worse
Amidst the tragedy caused by Hurricane Noel, Nestlé
arbitrarily
fired eleven workers from its ice cream
plant
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias and Bernabel Matos
12-7-2007 Honduras - SABMiller
A strike seems inevitable
Over these past 16 months of negotiations for the new
collective agreement, SABMiller has repeatedly breached
the previous agreement |
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| Carlos Amorín
12-04-2007 Argentina
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Declaration
CALVO International Campaign
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12-03-2007 Argentina
ITF Fishery Workers & IUF
Joint Meeting approves important
regional cooperation agreement
Rel-UITA - Carlos Amorín
12-03-2007
Regional Planning Meeting of the Latin American Fishery
Sector
REGIONAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT
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11-27-2007 Brasil
Work in luxury, live in poverty
With Moacyr Roberto Tesch Auersvald
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias
11-23-2007
Dominican Republic
NO TO THE ABUSIVE LAYOFFS IN
NESTLÉ!
Unions implement dynamic action plan
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín
11-21-2007
Fonterra and Nestlé
Two different styles of labor
relations
Rel-UITA | Dieter Schonebohm
11-19-2007 Dominican Republic
Workers react strongly against
layoffs in Nestlé
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| Carlos Amorín
11-15-2007 Dominican Republic
After Noel, comes Tropical Storm
Nestlé
In the aftermath of the devastating Tropical Storm Noel,
the transnational corporation Nestlé fires eleven
workers from its Santo Domingo ice cream plant
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| Carlos Amorín
11-12-2007 Peru
The Añañoses exploit their
"paisanos"
AJEGROUP likes to boast of being a successful family
business, which is not the same as being an exemplary
employer
Rel-UITA - Enildo Iglesias
11-07-2007
UNILEVER: Mass layoffs and
intolerance against unions
Netherlands, India and Pakistan: Three fronts against
Unilever’s policy of layoffs
By Dieter Schonebohm
9-10-2007 El Salvador
Thank you for joining the
International campaign in support of CALVO El Salvador
workers
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10-8-2007 Uruguay
Coca-Cola workers obtain very good
results
Gains include reinstatement of 42 laid off workers and
improvements in labor safety
By Beatriz Sosa-Martínez & Amalia Antúnez
September 27
World Tourism Day
“A door open for women"
By Norberto Latorre
1-10-2007
SITRABI: We demand truth and
justice!
By Noé Antonio Ramírez Portela
09-26-2007
Everyone on the trail of sugarcane
Companies mobilized by expectations generated by ethanol
By Enildo Iglesias
22-9-2007
Agrofuels
Transnational corporations have
ethanol flowing in their veins
By Carlos Amorín
18-9-2007 Brazil - Sao Paulo
“This has got to change”
First Seminar of AmBev Workers’ Unions |
By Gerardo Iglesias
11-9-2007
Jibaros in Unilever
By Enildo Iglesias
9-11-2007 Guatemala
Soldiers burst into labor union
headquarters
By Carlos Amorín
9-6-2007 Brazil
CARREFOUR violence
Carrefour reacts viciously against
workers rallying peacefully
With Lucilene Binsfeld
By Amalia Antúnez
9-3-2007
Working conditions and
agrochemical use in Eufores (Ence) and FOSA (Botnia)
nurseries
By María Isabel Cárcamo
08-30-2007 Uruguay
No use crying over
powdered milk... ?
by Pablo Farías
8-28-2007 Brasil
State of São Paulo
AmBev Unions form State Commission
By Carlos Amorín
8-27-2007 Brazil
The unyielding, joyful and firm
strength of organized women
By Carlos Amorín
27-8-2007 Colombia
Death and impunity run rampant
once again in this tormented region
Campaign against violence in Urabá
Letter to the President of Colombia
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27-8-2007 Colombia
SINTRAINAGRO condemns massacre of
civilians in Currulao
Terrorists groups seek to regain control of Urabá
through vicious means
SINTRAINGRO National Board
8-21-2007 Brazil
Brasilia | A | 21-22
This country will never be the
same again
3rd Marcha das Margaridas
By Carlos Amorín
8-17-2007 Nicaragua
Nemagon is still alive and kicking
A study finds residues of this poison in Chinandega
wells
By José Adán Silva
8-15-2007 Guatemala
Coca-Cola gets nasty
SITINCA’s stance towards the solidarista movement
By Amalia Antúnez
8-13-2007 Brazil
Rural violence
The basis of the agro-industrial system depends on
murderers, hypocrites and slave drivers
By Carlos Amorín
8-14-2007 Brazil
August 15 - Demonstration in
Brasilia
National Campaign Against the Work Pace in Poultry
Plants
By Gerardo Iglesias
7-25-2007 Spain
Meeting scheduled for today fails
CCOO and UGT seek to reschedule meeting with the Calvo
Group
By Carlos Amorín
7-24-2007
Where are corporate merger and
acquisitions taking us?
Some
thoughts on the failed Nestlé and PepsiCo merger
Beatriz Sosa and Enildo Iglesias
07-23-2007 Brazil - Sidrolandia
How far will CARGILL go?
Demonstration to DIGNIFY WORK in CARGILL
With Siderlei de Oliveira
By Gerardo Iglesias
7-19-2007 Argentina
New victory for UTHGRA
Wage agreement for 200,000 workers
With Norberto Latorre
By Carlos Amorín
7-13-2007 Argentina
We're very pleased with the result
of our struggle
With Hugo Moyano
By Carlos Amorín
7-11-2007 Argentina
InBev must honor the agreement
signed
With Pablo Quiroga, of FATAGA
By Carlos Amorín
7-11-2007 Argentina
We won't yield an inch
With Hugo Moyano
By Carlos Amorín
7-09-2007
The Japanese hand
The capitalist model of production, the involution of
working conditions and the consequences for the human
body
By Enildo Iglesias
3-7-2007 El Salvador
Escalation of terror in tuna plant
Mass application of “lie detector” in Calvo Conservas
By Carlos Amorín
28-6-2007 El Salvador
Calvo Brazil union leaders visit
Salvadorian trade union
“The situation is much worse than we thought”
Por Gilberto Ernesto García
18-06-2007 El Salvador
Calvo Conservas faces complaints
with ILO and COFIDES
Confirming our suspicions, unions report that the
Salvadorian Minister of Labor’s law firm represents the
Calvo group
By Enildo Iglesias
6-6-2007 Peru
Peru leads Fair Trade Coffee
exports to the US
JNC -
National Coffee Board
Colombia - Urabá 6-6-2007
Forum in Defense of Employment
concludes with great success
By Luis Guillermo Sánchez
6-6-2007 Germany – Nestlé – Neuselters
Successful outcome of the strike
at Nestlé Waters in Neuselters
With Franz-Josef Möllenberg
By Dieter Schonebohm
31-6-2007 El Salvador
The novel of Calvo
Conservas
By Enildo Iglesias and Gerardo Iglesias
31-5-2007 Guatemala - Coca Cola
With no signs of improvement in FEMSA
Bargaining in a labyrinth
With Lázaro Serrano
29-5-2007 Brazil
Parmalat and its indecent proposal
With Geraldo Gonçálves Pires
By Amalia Antúnez
29-5-2007 Guatemala
Coca Cola - Retalhuleu
Attacks against the union continue
… to the limits of patience
With David Morales
Gerardo Iglesias and Amalia Antúnez
28-05-2007
Agriculture and food workers
challenge nanotechnologies
Guillermo Foladori and Noela Invernizzi
28-5-2007
Argentina - Brasil
Cargill: Enough!
“Together we can beat the beast”
With Siderlei de Oliveira
Gerardo Iglesias and Javier
Amorín
18-5-2007 Costa Rica
In the land of COBAL-CHIQUITA
The rule of nonsense
By Gerardo Iglesias and Carlos Amorín
17-5-2007
Labor movement united to support
struggle for wages
CGT grows stronger
By Javier Amorín
17-5-2007 El Salvador
Calvo Conservas curtails workers’
rights
With Josu Onaindi Buruaga, of Spain’s Confederation of
Workers’ Commissions (CCOO)
Por Carlos Amorín
16-5-2007 Gautemala
“Clear out” plans
with mass layoffs in Cima and Choi textiles
By Carlos Amorín
Manuagua - Nicaragua 9-5-2007
Here, there and everywhere:
SABMiller’s goes global with antiunion practices
By Luis Alejandro Pedraza
27-4-2007
Inbev says Latin
America, India, Russia, China on acquisition radar
screen
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Argentina 20-4-2007
Tourism and VIP immigrants are on
the rise, but wages and working conditions see no
improvement
UTHGRA up in arms
By Javier Amorín
16-4-2007 Nicaragua
Growth does not always equal
development
With Julio Sánchez, of the Humboldt Center
By Giorgio Trucchi
13-4-2007 Nicaragua
New government, same old
indifference?
Social and environmental impacts of agrotoxic substance
use
By Giorgio Trucchi
11-4-2007 Argentina
Quilmes-AmBev
Brewery giant takes a step back
By Carlos Amorín and Javier Amorín
11-4-2007 Argentina
“We are all Fuentealba”
Letter sent to the President of the Republic of
Argentina, Néstor Kirchner,
in reaction to the
despicable murder of the teacher Carlos Fuentealba
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Brasil 30-3-2007
Cargill - The carnival of horrors
By Carlos Amorín
20-3-2007 Geneva - Switzerland
WRM and IUF sign important
agreement
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19-3-2007 Switzerland - Geneva
Agrofuels at issue (I)
Global Meeting of African Palm Workers
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17-3-2007 Switzerland - Geneve
CONTAC denounces situation in
Brazilian poultry plants
IUF World Women’s Conference
By Siderlei de Oliveira
8-3-2007
Different women, the same utopia
International Women’s Day
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26-2-2007 Nicaragua - Chichigalpa
Endless pain and love
Chronic Renal Failure victims
By Gerardo Iglesias
22-2-2007
Coca-Cola, use it and toss it
Saving the planet and the workers
By Gerardo Iglesias
Argentina 22-2-2007
Olive plantation
laborers subjected to degrading conditions
UATRE
Uruguay 9-2-2007
The agro-export model increases
the use of pesticides threefold in eight years
¿Uruguay au-naturel?
By
Fernando Queirós Armand Ugón
Nicaragua 5-2-2007
“Peace of mind for transnational
corporations,” but what about the workers?
During his first weeks in Office, president Daniel
Ortega met with national companies and transnational
corporations, which are investing or plan to invest in
Nicaragua
By Giorgio Trucchi
Perú 26-1-2007
AmBev’s style is explained by the
"Brahma gene"
By Enildo Iglesias
Colombia 24-01-2007
Bogotá Statement
SABMiller Workers’ Strategy Workshop
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Dominican
Republic 17-1-2007
The Nestlé Principle: To grow is
to outsource
A Nestlé factory in the Dominican Republic had an 80
percent growth in production and rewarded its workforce
by laying off 45 regular workers to replace them with
outsourced (subcontracted) labor
By Enildo Iglesias