On Wednesday, July 14, state congresswoman Luciane Carminatti met with members of the IUF’s Latin American LGBTI Group to discuss the furthering of public policies for the inclusion of gender-diverse persons in Florianópolis.
A paradise for the soybean multinational corporation
From the absence of prior consultations to all kinds of operational irregularities and the failure to conduct a thorough environmental impact study, the port that the multinational corporation Cargill has been operating since 2003 on the Tapajós River, in the Brazilian state of Pará, blatantly ignores the most basic environmental regulations, disregards the rights of local indigenous peoples, and negatively affects the economy of the region.
Ambev and Heineken accused of imposing slave-like working conditions
The beer manufacturing giants were charged following an inspection conducted by the Program for the Eradication of Slave Labor in the state of São Paulo, which found 23 migrant workers subjected to slave-like conditions in one of the distributing companies that the multinational corporations outsource their services to.
When poverty is the pandemic
Hunger haunts more than half of Brazil’s population, according to a study coordinated by the Food for Justice Research Group and carried out in late 2020 by researchers from the Free University of Berlin, the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and the University of Bras
Betting on plant-based “meat”
JBS has acquired the Netherlands-based company Vivera, Europe’s third largest food producer, to gain a solid footing in the plant-based “meat” market.
National strike in German meatpacking plants
Last April 7, in a meeting of European and Brazilian labor organizations that represent meat industry workers, Peter Schmidt, of the German Food, Beverages and Catering Union (Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten, NGG), declared: “Trade union actions against workforce casualization in meatpacking plants in Brazil and Germany are part of the same struggle.
Brazilian meatpacking plants also under fire
The claimants allege that the French multinational corporation sells meat linked to deforestation and land-grabbing practices in Amazonia.
Faces in the smoke
Impunity, greed, economic, social, and political terrorism perpetrated by criminal elites, foolishness, hypocrisy, and ignorance—these are the real fuels igniting the Amazon fires. The forest is being consumed in those fires, along with thousands of human beings whose lives are deemed to be worth less than the spark that sets off the fires.
A battle has been won, but the struggle continues
A vigorous and effective denunciation campaign succeeded this past Tuesday, June 9, in blocking the submission to congress of a proposed amendment to Provisional Measure 927, which establishes a 20-minute break for every 1.4 hours worked in meatpacking plants.
Corporate health above public health
The Labor Prosecutor’s Office, the IUF, and our affiliate organizations CNTA and CONTAC (Brazil’s national confederations of food and related industry workers) are conducting a signature-gathering campaign for a petition to block the proposed amendment to Provisional Measure 927.