agricultura

12-21-2009 Peru - AJEGROUP
AJEGROUP buys (cheap) corporate social responsibility and sponsors (Russian) Peruvian champ Rel-UITA l Enildo Iglesias

12-18-2009 Spain – Health
People suffer in silence, isolation and resignation
Pain in employment, as in unemployment
With Fernando Rodrigo Cencillo
Rel-UITA l Gerardo Iglesias

12-10-2009 Brazil – Ajinomoto
Assembly supports actions by Union
Strike is inevitable!
Rel-UITA l Gerardo Iglesias

11-30-2009 Uruguay
Dignity for prisoners of poverty
With Ivahanna Larrosa and Claudia Serrón of Amnesty International
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

11-27-2009 Germany
Europe-LatAm cooperation advances
With Harald Wiedenhofer
Rel-UITA | Beatriz Sosa and Gerardo Iglesias

11-27-2009 Argentina
Current challenges faced by the meat industry
With Carlos Edgardo Molinares
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

11-18-2009 Brazil
Conflict in Ajinomoto
More forces join the struggle
With Artur Bueno de Camargo
Rel-UITA l Amalia Antúnez

11-16-2009 Brazil
CNTA Letter to Ajinomoto CEO
Rel-UITA l CNTA

11-15-2009 Honduras - Coup
Popular Independent Candidacy
“We're not pulling out, it's the coup perpetrators who are preventing us from participating”
With Carlos Reyes
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

11-12-2009 Brazil
Ajinomoto
The struggle continues
Rel-UITA l Carlos Amorín

11-10-2009 Honduras
The international community
must reject the elections
Message by the National Resistance Front
Against the Coup

11-9-2009 Brazil
Work Pace in Poultry Plants
Union action in Brasilia in support of the work-day reduction bill
Rel-UITA l Carlos Amorín

11-9-2009 Peru
XV SUPNEP General Assembly
Decent work and food sovereignty
With Juan Pedemonte
Rel-UITA l Gerardo Iglesias

11-3-2009 Brazil
Successful Poultry Workers Meeting
With Siderlei de Oliveira
Rel-UITA l Amalia Antúnez

10-27-2009 Honduras - Coup
Whatever happens, this is where you'll find me: fighting in the streets!
With Dionisia Díaz, anti-coup grandma
117 days mobilizing against the Coup
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

10-23-2009 Brazil
Try as it might, Ajinomoto can't keep workers from organizing
STIA - Limeira holds meeting at Ajinomoto Limeira plant, where 1,100 work
Rel-UITA l Carlos Amorín

10-23-2009   Brazil - Meat processing
National mobilization and international campaign protesting against labor conditions in the sector
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorin

10-22-2009   Argentina - UATRE
"Decent work, Decent Life for Women"
With Carolina Llanos
Rel-UITA | Amalia Antúnez

Info HRCT | 010 | 10-21-2009
Hotel, Restaurant, Catering and Tourism in Latin America
Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

10-20-2009
October 16 - World Hunger Day
Paradoxically, on World Food Day reality forces us to address hunger
Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

10-14-2009
SABMiller and Heineken thirsty for FEMSA beer
News of SABMiller’s and Heineken’s interest in FEMSA’s beer business spread
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

10-9-2009   Companies - Coca Cola
New and Successful Collective Agreement
in Paraguay Refrescos
With Pedro Gonzalez, from SIAPAR
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

10-8-2009   Mexico
Mexican corn in great danger,
and the pressures of Monstanto

10-8-2009   Honduras - Coup
Dialogue is just a media
show to legitimize elections
De facto government remains unyielding, while police cracks down again on opposition
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

10-7-2009   Honduras - Coup
Dialoguing with wolves
OAS mission arrives in Honduras, while peasants continue their struggle for freedom.
Indigenous group requests political asylum in Guatemala Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

10-7-2009   Brazil - Meatpacking
We launched a mobilization and action plan against low wages and poor working conditions
With Artur Bueno de Camargo
Rel-UITA l Carlos Amorín

10-5-2009 Mexico
Domestic workers call on Latin American governments to recognize their labor rights
Rel-UITA l Lauri García Dueñas

10-2-2009 Honduras - Coup
Charged with sedition
for defending the constitution
Thirty-eight men are held in a
15x15 meter cell for two days
Rel-UITA l Giorgio Trucchi

30-9-2009 Ireland
Latin American support
to industrial action in Coca Cola
Industrial action against unilateral steps of the company to outsource 130 workplaces
Rel-UITA | Beatriz Sosa Martínez

9-29-2009 Honduras - Coup
Resistance movement defies Executive Decree banning freedom of expression
Two people evacuated from Brazilian embassy for health reasons
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

9-29-2009 Honduras - Coup
Brazilian embassy under siege
President Zelaya denounces use of chemicals, and Brazil calls to condemn de facto government
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

9-25-2009 Honduras - Coup
The brutality of a twenty-first century dictatorship
President Zelaya denounces conspiracy to assassinate him and pass it off as suicide
With Bertha Cáceres
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

9-25-2009
RIPESS – Rel-UITA
A commitment undertaken with responsibility and joy
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

9-15-2009 Honduras – Coup
History repeats itself,
but with new seeds of freedom
The same reactionary forces of 180 years ago attack the unity of Central America
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

9-15-2009
Hero of transnational corporations Norman Borlaug dies
He contributed to famines, social and political imbalances and contamination as a direct result of his creation: the “Green Revolution”
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

9-2-2009 Colombia
Another Nestle worker murdered
Rel-UITA condemns the murder of Gustavo Gómez
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

9-2-2009 Argentina
Mobilization and solidarity forced Kraft Foods Argentina to move back
With Rodolfo Daer, of STIA
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

8-31-2009 Argentina

KRAFT Foods against everything and everyone

Employer lockout continues
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

8-31-2009 Colombia
SINTRAINAGRO - “Bitter Banana”
Violation of Collective Bargaining Agreement and labor persecution
Rel-UITA | Luis Alejandro Pedraza

8-31-2009 Uruguay
August 19
National Domestic Workers' Day

With Cristina Otero

Rel-UITA | Amalia Antúnez

8-27-2009 Honduras
22nd STIBYS Congress
Message to the IUF

8-24-2009 Brasil
Elio Neves attacked
“It was an attempt to execute him”
Rel-UITA

8-21-2009 United States
Collective Agreement at Smithfield

First union collective bargaining agreement of the Smithfield Workers at Tar Heel
Rel-UITA | Beatriz Sosa Martínez

8-21-2009 Honduras – Coup
Obama and the snakes in the yard
US President grossly simplifies request that’s growing louder and louder in Latin America
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

8-20-2009 Peru - Coca-Cola
Good negotiation, better agreement

SINATREL is the first union
with the right to parental leave
Rel-UITA | Julia Vicuña Yacarine

8-20-2009 Argentina - Kraft - URGENT
Kraft Foods fires 150 workers
Argentina’s Food Workers’ Federation calls the transnational corporation’s decision “wholly unjustified” Rel-UITA

8-18-2009 Nicaragua - Sugarcane workers
CRF must be recognized
as an occupational illness

With Amanda Villatoro. of CSA

Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

8-14-2009 Honduras - Coup

Day 41 of the coup

IUF Latin America on Radio Globo

Solidarity and committed support to popular resistance Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

8-14-2009 Argentina

Full Strike at Nestlé, General Rodríguez

Union busting at Nestlé

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorin

8-13-2009 Honduras - Coup

As the whole country mobilizes,
Tegucigalpa resists

National Popular Resistance March advances

Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

8-12-2009
Unilever results
World’s third largest food and consumer goods group increases sales but reduces profit

Rel-UITA

8-5-2009 Spain
The fate of today's workers: to die working
Rubbish jobs and disposable workers
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

7-30-2009 Honduras - Coup
URGENT - BREAKING NEWS - SAVAGE REPRESSION
Letter sent by IUF Latin America to OAS Secretary General

7-30-2009 Honduras
Last Minute
Brutal repression of the dictatorship in Tegucigalpa
Rel-UITA

7-27-2009 Honduras - Coup
No country can be governed without the people
With Manuel de Jesús Sosa
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

7-24-2009 Brazil – AmBev
AmBev's true face revealed
Beer giant fined for “unfair competition” and for breaking Brazil’s antitrust law
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

7-22-2009
Nestle spying on its workers by TV
Layoffs and union busting
With Lucas Suárez
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

7-22-2009 Honduras – Coup d’Etat
With President Manuel Zelaya Rosales
Democracy has a price and I'm willing to pay it
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

7-20-2009 Peru
Coca Cola Workers
Favorable negotiations in progress
Rel-UITA | Julia Vicuña Yacarine

7-20-2009 Brazil - Finland
“We want to change conditions in the poultry industry”
With Eila Kämäräinen and Henri Lindholm, of SEL
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

7-17-2009
Letter from IUF Latin America to Honduran de facto president Roberto Micheletti
Rel-UITA

7-17-2009 Uruguay - VIDEO
Solidarity with Unilever – Lipton

workers in Pakistan
PIT-CNT demonstration in Montevideo

Rel-UITA

7-13-2009 Honduras – Coup d’Etat
The eyes of the world must remain focused on Honduras. We cannot let the coup become business as usual
With Carlos H. Reyes
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

7-9-2009 Brazil - Finland
Second Workshop of Meat Packing and Processing Industry Workers
New boost in fight against occupational illnesses in meatpacking plants
Carlos Amorín

7-8-2009 Spain - Honduras
“UGT strongly condemns coup"
With Manuel Bonmati
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

7-2-2009
We are all Hondurans!
IUF Statement on the coup in Honduras
IUF

7-1-2009 Honduras
We call on all our brothers and sisters to support our struggle
Forced underground, Carlos Reyes speaks with SIREL from somewhere in Honduras
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorin

6-30-2009 Dominican Republic - Unilever
Union of Workers of Unilever Caribe (SITRAUC) signs new Collective Bargaining Agreement
With Wilson Montero
Daniel García

6-30-2009 Honduras – Breaking News
Goons shed their mask
As protesters are brutally repressed, STIBYS' Carlos Reyes escapes kidnap attempt
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

6-30-2009 Honduras
Labor and social movements lead resistance
Hondurans continue mobilizing across the country despite the 48 hour curfew imposed by de facto president Roberto Micheletti
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

6-29-2009 Honduras
Return of the “goons” in civilian clothes
Military ousts President Zelaya and expels him from the country
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

6-27-2009 Honduras
Honduras faces coup
“We'll defend the people's right to express their will” With Carlos Reyes
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

6-25-2009 Brazil – Argentina
Marfrig continues to expand in Argentina
More surprises from Brazil’s meat industry: Marfrig joins the companies buying up plants in Argentina
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

6-23-2009 Chile - Nestlé
Concha, Police and Nestlé
A formidable Trinity
Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

6-23-2009
La Rel-HOY 2000 - La Rel-TODAY 2000
Thank you for being with us 2000 times!
Rel-UITA

6-12-2009   Uruguay
IUF demonstration at Peruvian embassy
The rainforest is not for sale! We will defend the rainforest!
Rel-UITA

6-12-2009   Lux’2009
RIPESS Intercontinental Meeting
Trade unions must also be key social actors
With Denise Boucher
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

6-11-2009   Peru
Massacre in Bagua and strike at AmBev
Open Letter to Alan García, President of Peru
Rel-UITA

6-10-2009 Peru
Government criminalizes protest of indigenous people of the Amazon
The Front for the Defense of Life and National Sovereignty calls on social organizations and labor unions to stage mobilizations and regional work stoppages throughout Peru on Thursday, June 11
Rel-UITA | Julia Vicuña Yacarine

6-9-2009 Argentina
(Un)secure at Massalin Particulares
Strangers making themselves at home
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

6-5-2009
June 5 - World Environment Day
No such thing as too much awareness
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias and Carlos Amorín

6-3-2009 Chile
Nestlé Chile:
Producing more at any cost

“Its workers’ health is not a concern for this TNC”
Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

5-22-2009 Argentina
UTHGRA announces mobilization plan
Long weekend of direct countrywide actions for wage increase
With Norberto Latorre
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

5-22-2009 Chile - Unilever
Unilever Federation joins IUF
With Claudio Urrutia
Rel-UITA | Daniel García

5-22-2009 Peru

Letter from the IUF's Latin American Executive Committee to the President of Peru

IUF

5-20-2009 República Dominicana - Nestlé
Millions for Nestle managers, while workers are denied their rights
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

5-19-2009 Nicaragua
Overwhelming international solidarity for the former sugarcane workers in ANAIRC
Thousands of protest letters are pouring in... and it’s just the beginning
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

5-13-2009 Uruguay - Coca Cola
New gain for FELATRAC
Important victory for Coca-Cola workers
With Gabriel San Martín
Rel-UITA | Amalia Antúnez

5-7-2009 Argentina
The decision to repress our protest rally was a political one
With UTHGRA’s Norberto Latorre
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

5-8-2009 Uruguay
Coca-Cola workers in state of alert
Public Statement by STCC
Rel-UITA

5-8-2009 Brazil
A historical moment in the struggle of Brazil's sugarcane cutters
With Elio Neves
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

5-8-2009 Colombia
SINTRAINAGRO's strike paralyzes banana region
After exhausting previous legal stages, SINTRAINAGRO launches a strike that involves workers from every banana plantation in Colombia
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

5-8-2009 Brazil
Nestlé Brazil rips its workers off
The transnational corporation DPA-Nestlé is forced to change the illegal workweek regimen imposed on its 17,670 workers throughout the country
Rel-UITA | CONTAC

5-5-2009 Argentina
Police repression against UTHGRA rally
Several wounded and dozens arrested in violent police action
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

4-30-2009 Uruguay - Coca-Cola
Resolution adopted by the Union of Coca-Cola Uruguay Workers' (STCC)
Rel-UITA | STCC

4-23-2009 Nicaragua – Sugarcane workers
Support for CRF victims’ struggle grows
Boycott against Flor de Caña rum
Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

4-23-2009 Colombia - SINTRAINAGRO
Banana workers vote in favor of strike
Massive participation at the 296 Urabá plantations
Rel-UITA | Luis Guillermo Sánchez

4-17-2009 Spain
Coca-Cola...Only in the movies!
Outlandish events like those at Coca-Cola Fuenlabrada (Madrid) only happen in the movies!
Gerardo Iglesias

4-17-2009 Ecuador - Nestlé
Letter to the Executive President of Nestlé Ecuador
Layoffs and violation of the Collective Work Agreement
Rel-UITA

4-14-2009 Colombia - SINTRAINAGRO

Negotiation in the banana sector

Public announcement

Rel-UITA | SINTRAINAGRO

4-7-2009 Brazil - ARCOR
Federation of Arcor Workers represents the realization of an old aspiration
With Héctor Morcillo
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

4-2-2009 Brazil – Nestlé
Workers foil Nestlé's extortion attempt
With Melquíades de Araújo
Rel-UITA | Amalia Antúnez

4-1-2009 Colombia
Escalating violence and threats
Armed groups target union activists
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

4-1-2009 Brazil
With Claudio Urrutia
The IUF has a very interesting and relevant approach to labor organization
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorin

3-27-2009 Mexico
March 30
Proclamation by the Domestic Workers of Latin America and the Caribbean
CONLACTRAHO

30-3-2009 Colombia
Bomb explodes in Apartadó
Four members of SINTRAINAGRO suffer serious injuries Rel-UITA

3-27-2009   Colombia

Big banana companies and the government
are out to destroy SINTRAINAGRO

With Guillermo Rivera | Special report (PDF)

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

3-26-2009   Brazil
Uniting all the trade unions of Unilever workers
With Siderlei Silva de Oliveira
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

3-24-2009   Brazil - Unilever

A common strategy to take on Unilever

With Artur Bueno de Camargo

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

3-19-2009   Brazil - Unilever

Working in unity with concrete proposals

With Neuza Barbosa de Lima   Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

3-19-2009   Colombia - SINTRAINAGRO
Collective bargaining
Same old challenges in a very rarefied atmosphere
Rel-UITA | Luis Alejandro Pedraza and Gerardo Iglesias

3-18-2009   Colombia

Food sovereignty means being able to domestically produce

the country’s staple diet Special report (PDF)

Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo

3-13-2009
European cars know nothing about ethics
Nicaragua increases its ethanol exports to Europe, with 28 million dollars in sales so far this year
Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

3-13-2009   Nicaragua – Sugarcane workers

We're only asking for what is rightly ours

With Silvio Baltodano Flores

Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

3-12-2009   Argentina - Nestlé
Short conflict, lasting results
With Pablo Quiroga
Rel-UITA | Amalia Antúnez

3-11-2009 Nicaragua

The sugarcane workers are in Managua

ANAIRC mobilizes to demand damages
from the Pellas Group

Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

3-11-2009 Brazil
Tenth CONTAG Congress in session
“Sustainable development with income distribution, and citizenship for rural workers”
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

3-6-2009 Brazil

A transnational corporation that deals in deceit

AmBev shuts down plant and puts
166 workers out on the street

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorin

3-4-2009 Dominican Republic - Nestlé

They treated us like garbage

With Zacarías Rosario

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

3-3-2009 Colombia

IUF and FELATRAC continue

to grow in Coca-Cola

New SICO members and national authorities

Rel-UITA | Luis Alejandro Pedraza

2-20-2009 Colombia
The business of bottled water
Coca-Cola FEMSA buys Brisa
Rel-UITA | Gerardo Iglesias

2-19-2009 Honduras

We're confident the conflict will have a positive outcome | With Salomón Batres,
General Assistant Director of Labor

Rel-UITA | Giorgio Trucchi

2-18-2009
Figures and results
Some interesting numbers and data on transnational companies
Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

12-2-2009 Chile

Transnational corporations sour the market

Producers to file complaints against Soprole,
Watt’s and Nestlé for price fixing agreement

Rel-UITA | Enildo Iglesias

2-12-2009   Honduras

Conflict at Cervecería Hondureña

SAB-Miller / Coca-Cola wants to lay off 300 workers

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorin

2-11-2009   Honduras
The country is at a critical moment, and SAB-Miller sets out to break our union
With Carlos Rodríguez, of STIBYS
Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

1-21-2009   Peru
AmBev Peru announces massive layoff of workers at its Sullana factory
With Manuel Cordova
Rel-UITA | Amalia Antúnez

1-19-2009   Argentina

IUF Latin American Executive Committee

“We need a new international order where politics steer the economy”

With Ron Oswald

Rel-UITA | Carlos Amorín

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