2007

 

 

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 | Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

12-04-2007   Argentina

Rel-UITA - ITF Joint Declaration

CALVO International Campaign

Rel-UITA - ITF

 

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

Rel-UITA

 

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

Rel-UITA | 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
Rel-UITA | 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 | Rel-UITA

 

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

Rel-UITA

 

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
Rel-UITA | Source: Forbes

 

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

Rel-UITA

 

Brasil   30-3-2007

Cargill - The carnival of horrors

By Carlos Amorín

 

20-3-2007   Geneva - Switzerland

WRM and IUF sign important agreement

Rel-UITA

 

19-3-2007   Switzerland - Geneva
Agrofuels at issue (I)
Global Meeting of African Palm Workers

Rel-UITA

 
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

Rel-UITA

 

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

Rel-UITA

 

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

 

 

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