Brasil

August 15 Demonstration in Brasilia

National Campaign Against the Work Pace in Poultry Plants

 


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 o