2008

 

 

12-22-2008   United States
Predictions confirmed
InBev set to cut 1,400 U.S. jobs after Anheuser-Busch merger
Rel-UITA |
Enildo Iglesias

 

12-15-2008

Number of hungry people in the world increases to 923 million

Hunger is the deadliest weapon of the war called capitalism

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorin

 

12-11-2008   Uruguay
Simón Santana, a victim of unsafe working conditions in Uruguay
Bread manufacturer Bimbo offers 330 dollars as compensation for worker's death

La República

 

12-9-2008   Uruguay

Simón Santana, a victim of unsafe working conditions in Uruguay

The transnational corporation Bimbo faces court actions over fatal work accident
 

11-27-2008

AmBev Manufacturing Excellence Program

Sowing discord and greed

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

11-26-2008   Peru
Nestle´s behavior in Peru
After 28 days of strike, the morale of workers is still high and the company tries to defeat them by violating the law

Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

 

11-20-2008   Colombia - Sugarcane Cutters’ Strike

Resolution on the strike and mobilization of the Sugarcane Cutters of Colombia

Council of the Global Professional Group of Agricultural Workers (PGAW – IUF)

Rel-UITA | IUF

 

11-11-2008   Colombia

Successful outcome for sugarcane cutters' strike

Refineries grant most of the workers’ demands

With Adolfo Tigreros

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

11-5-2008   Brazil - Coca Cola
FEMSA hinders negotiations in Minas Gerais With Hamilton Jeronimo da Silva
Rel-UITA | Amalia Antúnez

 

11-3-2008   Uruguay
Letter from a mother
Simón Santana Farías - Victim of a work accident at Bimbo

 

10-27-2008   Uruguay - Brazil - Argentina
International Campaign to Extradite Retired Colonel Manuel Cordero
Rel-UITA | MJDH

 

10-21-2008   Chile
Heineken - CCU won't yield

After 36 days of striking, the workers of the Chilean company Calaf
decided to return to work despite failing to achieve their demands

Rel-UITA | Dieter Schonebohm

 

10-13-2008   Brazil - FEMSA
Situation solved in Cosmopolis
With Artur Bueno de Camargo

Rel-UITA | Amalia Antúnez

 

10-15-2008   Uruguay - Brazil
In your hands..
Letter from Roger Rodriguez to the Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil, who will decide on the extradition of Uruguayan torturer colonel Manuel Cordero

 

10-8-2008   Argentina
Spanish Hotel Chains Conference
A milestone in hotel and tourism sector organization
With Eduardo Rodríguez Calderón
Rel-UITA |
Carlos Amorín

 

10-7-2008   República Dominicana
Layoffs and precarious work Nestlé’s indecent proposal
Open Letter to Nestlé’s CEO
Rel-UITA

 

10-3-2008   Argentine
Conference on Spanish Hotel Chains in Latin America and Union Rights
Buenos Aires Declaration
Rel-UITA

 

9-30-2008   Argentina

“We have expanded our knowledge of the Spanish hotel chains in Latin America”
With Fernando Medina

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

9-29-2008   Argentina

We want a global framework agreement for the HRCT sector

With Norberto Latorre

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

9-29-2008  Argentina

The bitter taste of working at Arcor

Rel-UTA |  FTIA 

 

9-24-2008   Argentina
United is the way to go
With Carlos Frigerio

Rel-UTA | Carlos Amorín

 

9-24-2008   Argentina - Arcor
Solidarity from Brazil 
With Melquíades de Araújo

Rel-UITA | Amalia Antúnez

 

9-22-2008   Argentina – InBev
Letter from Buenos Aires
First International Conference of the Latin American Federation of InBev Workers

Rel-UITA

 

9-22-2008   Colombia – Valle del Cauca
Rebellion of the sugarcane cutters
Some 18,000 sugarcane workers go on strike in the Department of Valle del Cauca

Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias and Luis Alejandro Pedraza

 

9-17-2008  Argentina - Unilever
Second Latin American Conference of Unilever Workers
Letter from Buenos Aires

Rel-UITA

 

9-17-2008 Argentina – Arcor
Letter from Buenos Aires
It's not all sweets at Arcor Group

Rel-UITA | COLTARCOR

 

9-12-2008   Perú
Nestlé’s intransigence
If the company fails to give a solution to the workers’ demands,
the strike will begin on September 23

Rel-UITA | Amalia Antúnez

 

9-3-2008   Dominican Republic
The two faces of Nestlé

With José Manuel Paulino
Rel-UITA | Amalia Antúnez

 

9-2-2008   Brazil
Unilever fined for environmental pollution
Rel-UITA | Dieter Schonebohm

 

9-1-2008   Dominican Republic
Nestlé: The wolf in sheep's clothing
With Felipe Ozuna

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

8-28-2008   Dominican Republic
Nestlé is a monster, and we lacked unity
With Agueda Sosa

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

8-22-2008   Uruguay - Brazil

The name of the game is (illegal) logging

ENCE cleared dozens of hectares of native bush

Rel-UITA | Daniel Gatti

 

8-20-2008   Ecuador
More abusive layoffs in Nestle
Now in Ecuador
With Carlos Lucas Cedeño

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

8-19-2008   El Salvador
CALVO Group Campaign
An example of courage and dignity
With Elsa Noemí Contreras

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

8-18-2008   Dominican Republic
With Nereyda de la Cruz Lantigua
Nestlé is ungrateful to the country and its workers

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

8-15-2008   Brazil

FEMSA spoils the collective negotiation in Limeira (Sao Paulo)
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

8-14-2008   Brasil
Tense situation in Morro Agudo
The Military Police intensifies actions, arresting and torturing workers

Rel-UITA | 
FERAESP | Alcimir Carmo

 

08-14-2008 Dominican Republic
“Nestlé is inhumane”
With Rosa Iris Reyes

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

07-31-2008   Honduras
Bimbo: The antiunion bear
Sixty-two workers fired for forming a union | With Daniel Durón

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

7-24-2008   Colombia

Nestle’s unfair actions

The recent closure of the Nestle ice-cream plant in the Dominican Republic is new evidence of the worst face of this transnational corporation

Rel-UITA | Luis Alejandro Pedraza

 

7-22-2008  Dominican Republic
Banditry and Exploitation II

With Flaudio Tapia
Nestle, an irresponsible company
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

 

7-21-2008
From comedy to drama
Last Sunday 13 Anheuser-Busch accepted InBev’s proposal 
Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

 

7-21-2008   Dominican Republic - Unilever

Secretary of Labor calls for conciliation

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

7-17-2008   Dominican Republic

Combative picketing at Unilever plant

With Wilson Montero

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

7-17-2008   Honduras - SABMiller

Banditry and exploitation

The onslaught from transnational corporations is trampling union rights everywhere

Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

 

7-16-2008   Dominican Republic

Abusive and discriminatory layoffs in Unilever

With Wilson Montero

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

7-10-2008   Uruguay

Nanotechnology and the world of labor

With Guillermo Foladori

Rel-UITA | Amalia Antúnez

 

7-7-2008   Honduras

SABMiller, Pepsico and Coca Cola impose extensive working hours

With Carlos Reyes

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

6-19-2008   Brazil
Atibaia Statement
Final Declaration of the International Meeting of Workers of the Poultry Industry

Rel-UITA

 

6-19-2008   Dominican Republic

Nestle plant closure while workers are the last to know

With Rafael “Pepe” Abreu

Rel-UITA

 

6-18-2008   Brazil
International Meeting of Poultry Industry Workers
We’re not machines!

Rel-UITA Carlos Amorin

 

6-11-2008   Brazil

Meat Packing and Processing Industry

Finnish and Brazilian organizations examine consequences
of work pace in poultry plants

Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

 

6-04-2008   Peru - NESTLÉ

Good food, good life?

Rel-UITA | Julia Vicuña Yacarine

 

5-27-2008   Honduras

The Pellas Group and agrofuels

They want to plant sugarcane in the most productive food growing area

Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

 

5-26-2008   Argentina - UTHGRA

Significant wage increases and firm opposition to underreporting by employers

With Norberto Latorre

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

5-21-2008   Colombia

International campaign organized against flower producers

With Guillermo Rivera

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

5-19-2008   Brazil

Grito da Terra Brazil 2008

It was worth it!

Rel-UITA | Alberto Broch

 

5-16-2008   Brazil
Grito da Terra Brazil 2008
A positive balance that encourages us to continue in our struggle
With Manoel José dos Santos, of the CONTAG

Rel-UITA Carlos Amorín

 

5-13-2008   Uruguay
Uruguay has its own model of labor relations
With Eduardo Bonomi, Minister of Labor and Social Security

Rel-UITA  Carlos Amorín

 

5-12-2008   Argentina
Unprecedented association in the history of the region’s labor movement
Coca-Cola workers form Latin American Federation
Rel-UITA Gerardo Iglesias

 

5-12-2008 Brazil
Academic research on the sugar-alcohol sector advances
The bonfire of ethanol
Rel-UITA
| Carlos Amorín

 

5-2-2008   Chile

Fonterra acquires Soprole

In this way it would be moving closer to a merger with Soprole,
although reports are unclear

Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

 

4-21-2008   Uruguay - Argentina

Pollution up in smoke

For the past week, almost 100 thousand hectares of grasslands are burning in the Paraná, Entre Ríos and Santa Fe   Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

4-17-2008  Switzerland - Geneva
IUF Women’s Committee
More women, more organization and solidarity
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

 

4-15-2008  Brasil - El Salvador
Força Sindical warns Calvo Group
“Your obstinacy and capriciousness is seriously complicating the situation”

Rel-UITA

 

4-14-2008   Colombia - United States

The FTA did not get through!

SINTRAINAGRO acknowledges the solidarity and commitment of the AFL-CIO

Rel-UITA | SINTRAINAGRO

 

4-12-2008   Spain

Ten photographs that speak of 3,000 lives

Colombia and the plight of the hostages

Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

 

4-11-2008   Guatemala

HISTORICAL MOMENT

Congress passes Law against femicide

With Rosa María Ángel de Frade

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

4-10-2008 Spain
Meeting of the IUF’s HRCT Professional Group
Speech by Cándido Méndez
The IUF plays an essential role

Rel-UITA Gerardo Iglesias
 

Spain   4-8-2008
Meeting of the IUF’s HRCT Professional Group
Transnational corporations get richer while workers grow poorer
With Norberto Latorre

Rel-UITA
| Gerardo Iglesias

 

4-02-2008  Argentina – UTHGRA

Social tourism: A Union priority

With Norberto Latorre

Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

 

3-31-2008  El Salvador

Calvo Campaign

Company sets up Frankenstein union

Calvo intensifies anti-labor tactics to destroy the workers’ union and replace it with one created “in its own image” - CEAL

 

3-27-2008   Brazil
Meeting of the National Committee of AmBev Workers Beer transnational corporation to be continually monitored by unions nationwide
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

3-18-2008   Guatemala

A gesture of moral and political greatness

President Alvaro Colom vetoed the law that reinstated the death penalty

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

3-17-2008   Venezuela

Chavez and Brabeck, the neighborhood bullies

Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

 

3-13-2008   El Salvador – Spain

Here and there

Calvo's double personality

Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

 

3-7-2008   Ecuador-Colombia

Declaration on the Ecuador-Colombia dispute
by the Latin American Executive Committee of the IUF

Intelligence and sense must speak up so that weapons may be silenced

Rel-UITA

 

2-26-2008   Colombia

¿What labor unity?

Rel-UITA | Guillermo Rivera Zapata

 

2-19-2008   Nicaragua - CRF
Center releases study on agrochemical “genocide”
With Denis Meléndez, of CISAS

Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

 

2-14-2008   Colombia
AFL-CIO Mission
Opposition to FTAs continues
Rel-UITA
| Luis Alejandro Pedraza

 

2-13-2008   Panama

Cornered by antiunion monster SABMiller

With Gregorio Rodríguez

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

2-12-2008   Brazil

Our goal is to collect 20 million signatures

Campaign to Reduce the Workday

With Siderlei de Oliveira of CONTAC

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

1-29-2008   Guatemala
Rel-UITA meets with president Álvaro Colom
In defense of unions and against impunity

Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

 

1-29-2008   Brazil
The Calvo Group has now secured full control of Gomes da Costa
Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

 

1-29-2008   Mexico

US-dependent tourism
The crisis that is hitting the US real estate industry is causing a sharp slump in the world’s largest economy

Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

 

1-23-2008   Ecuador

Alvarito, the evader

His fortune, apparently not amassed through honest means, is now weighting down on him, and his attempts to launder it through politics have so far been fruitless
Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

 

1-16-2008   Honduras - STIBYS – SABMiller
This struggle enhanced the political awareness of the workers
With Carlos Reyes

Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

 

1-15-2008 Guatemala
STECSA – Coca-Cola
The union is the sum of us all
With Lázaro “Lacho” Antonio Serrano and Carlos Alberto Luch

Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

 

1-10-2008
Countdown in SABMiller
IUF Letter sent by the IUF to the Director of Human Resources of SABMiller
IUF

 

1-10-2008   Honduras
Countdown in SABMiller
Despite some partial agreements, the differences over wages persist
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

 

1-9-2008 Honduras
STIBYS: A struggle that involves us all
The conflict between Honduras’ beverage workers’ union and SABMiller is over much more than just the South African transnational corporation’s violation of the collective bargaining agreement
Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

 

1-8-2008   Peru
15 years developing the Peruvian coffee industry
ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES AND COMMITMENTS

JNC

 

4-1-2008   Honduras
Countdown: Strike set to begin January 11
Rel-UITA

 

 

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