After more than five years, contract negotiations between the Union of Beverage and Related Industry Workers (STIBYS) and the La Reyna Bottling Company (CBC-Pepsi), have come to a halt.
Fyffes false promises
The multinational fruit company continues to violate worker’s rights
Manifest against the NR 36 review
Over 80 technicians, researchers, professors and doctorates in the worker’s health area sign a manifest in favor of NR 36.
Dole’s scheming moves to undermine the union
Agroindustrial Piñas del Bosque S.A. – Finca Muelle, a Costa Rica-based subsidiary of the Standard Fruit Company Dole, has been implementing a systematic anti-union policy, employing several tricks and bringing in outside actors complicit in such practices. Escuela Social Juan XXIII is one of those actors.
Pieced together little by little
Latin America | UNIONS | LGBTI Fist meeting of the IUF’s Latin American LGBTI Committee In Gisele Adão’s words Pieced …
BAT Argentina violates collective bargaining agreement
The situation of the workers of British American Tobacco (formerly Nobleza Piccardo) who were laid off nearly a month ago remains unchanged.
With no progress made, tobacco workers await Ministry resolution
Interviewed by La Rel, Juan Martini, president of the Federation of Tobacco Workers of the Republic of Argentina (FTTRA), informed that there is no change in the situation of the workers of British American Tobacco (formerly Nobleza Piccardo) who were laid off nearly a month ago.
The Federation of Tobacco Workers of the Republic of Argentina (FTTRA) reports veiled layoffs at British American Tobacco (BAT)
The company (formerly Nobleza Piccardo) decided unilaterally to begin outsourcing activities, laying of workers assigned to cigarette dispatching tasks at the plant located in the town of Martínez, Province of Buenos Aires.
Chiquita: Verde e amarela
In the distinctly agro-industrial region of northern Costa Rica, devoted primarily to pineapple and banana crops, more than 200 Chiquita Brands workers were illegally dismissed so that the transnational corporation could evict them and demolish their houses. We spoke about this with Didier Leitón Valverde, general secretary of the Union of Agricultural Plantation Workers (SITRAP).