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2008
12-22-2008 United States
Predictions confirmed
InBev set
to cut 1,400 U.S. jobs after
Anheuser-Busch merger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dieter Schonebohm
10-13-2008 Brazil -
FEMSA
Situation
solved in Cosmopolis
With Artur Bueno de Camargo
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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
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Carlos Amorín
10-7-2008 República Dominicana
Layoffs and precarious work
Nestlé’s indecent proposal
Open
Letter to Nestlé’s CEO
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10-3-2008 Argentine
Conference on Spanish Hotel
Chains
in Latin America and Union
Rights
Buenos
Aires Declaration
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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
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FTIA
9-24-2008 Argentina
United is
the way to go
With Carlos Frigerio
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Carlos Amorín
9-24-2008 Argentina -
Arcor
Solidarity
from Brazil
With Melquíades de Araújo
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Amalia Antúnez
9-22-2008 Argentina –
InBev
Letter
from Buenos Aires
First International Conference of the Latin American Federation of
InBev Workers
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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
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Gerardo Iglesias
and
Luis Alejandro Pedraza
9-17-2008 Argentina -
Unilever
Second Latin American Conference
of Unilever Workers
Letter from Buenos Aires
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9-17-2008 Argentina –
Arcor
Letter
from Buenos Aires
It's not all sweets at Arcor Group
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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
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Amalia Antúnez
9-3-2008 Dominican Republic
The two
faces of Nestlé
With
José Manuel Paulino
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Amalia Antúnez
9-2-2008 Brazil
Unilever fined for environmental pollution
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Dieter Schonebohm
9-1-2008 Dominican Republic
Nestlé:
The wolf in sheep's clothing
With Felipe Ozuna
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Carlos Amorín
8-28-2008 Dominican Republic
Nestlé is
a monster, and we lacked unity
With Agueda Sosa
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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
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Carlos Amorín
8-19-2008 El Salvador
CALVO
Group Campaign
An example
of courage and dignity
With Elsa Noemí Contreras
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Carlos Amorín
8-18-2008 Dominican Republic
With
Nereyda de la Cruz Lantigua
Nestlé is ungrateful to the country and its workers
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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
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Alcimir Carmo
08-14-2008 Dominican Republic
“Nestlé
is inhumane”
With Rosa Iris Reyes
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Carlos Amorín
07-31-2008 Honduras
Bimbo: The
antiunion bear
Sixty-two workers fired for forming a union | With Daniel Durón
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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
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| Gerardo Iglesias
7-21-2008
From
comedy to drama
Last Sunday 13 Anheuser-Busch accepted InBev’s proposal
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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
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6-18-2008 Brazil
International Meeting of Poultry Industry Workers
We’re not
machines!
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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
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Carlos Amorín
5-13-2008 Uruguay
Uruguay
has its own model of labor relations
With Eduardo Bonomi, Minister of Labor and Social Security
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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
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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
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Gerardo Iglesias
4-15-2008 Brasil - El Salvador
Força
Sindical warns Calvo Group
“Your obstinacy and capriciousness is seriously complicating the
situation”
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4-14-2008 Colombia - United States
The FTA
did not get through!
SINTRAINAGRO acknowledges the solidarity and commitment of the AFL-CIO
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4-12-2008 Spain
Ten photographs that speak of 3,000 lives
Colombia
and the plight of the hostages
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Gerardo
Iglesias
4-11-2008 Guatemala
HISTORICAL MOMENT
Congress
passes Law against femicide
With Rosa María Ángel de Frade
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| Carlos
Amorín
4-10-2008 Spain
Meeting of
the IUF’s HRCT Professional Group
Speech by Cándido Méndez
The IUF plays an essential role
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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
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Gerardo
Iglesias
4-02-2008
Argentina – UTHGRA
Social tourism: A Union priority
With Norberto Latorre
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| 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
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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
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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
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Giorgio Trucchi
2-14-2008 Colombia
AFL-CIO Mission
Opposition to FTAs continues
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Luis Alejandro Pedraza
2-13-2008 Panama
Cornered by antiunion monster
SABMiller
With Gregorio Rodríguez
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| 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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