Gerardo Iglesias

Gerardo Iglesias (Uruguay) - gerardo@rel-uita.org

De dura lucha

La Federación de Trabajadores de la Industria de la Alimentación (FTIA) comunicó que en audiencia realizada este jueves 16 en el Ministerio de Trabajo, con presencia de representantes de la cámara empresaria FIPAA, se arribó a un acuerdo para la actualización de las escalas salariales del convenio colectivo del sector.

“Un acto ilegal e inhumano”

Nuestra afiliada, la Federación Sindical Independiente de Trabajadores/as del Ecuador (FESITRAE), elevó una carta al presidente ejecutivo de la filial local de la transnacional suiza, Leuenberger Chistof, denunciando el despido ilegal de una trabajadora y la acción antisindical de mandos medios de la empresa.

Daily controls by the Federation to verify protocol compliance

On July 1st, the IUF’s Meat Industry Division held a teleconference with the participation of some 40 union leaders from the sector. Alberto Fantini, secretary general of Argentina’s Labor Federation of Meat and Meat Byproduct Industry Workers, reported on the situation in the sector and the COVID-19 pandemic. Below are the key points of his presentation.

Nestlé breaches collective bargaining agreement and lays off a worker in the middle of the pandemic

Carlos Velastegui, general secretary of the Labor Committee of Nestlé Ecuador Workers, an IUF affiliate, spoke with La Rel about the irresponsible way the transnational corporation has behaved in that country, where it has been negligent in the application of safety protocols and has further failed to comply with the collective bargaining agreement in the midst of an unprecedented global crisis.