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Kraft/Mondelez Workers News
| Financial Times investigation of Cadbury reveals complex layers of tax-avoidance-now it's time for a closer look at Mondelez and subsidizing debt | 23/06/2013 - 17:57 |
The UK Financial Times on June 21 reported on the results of an extensive investigation into the use of complex tax avoidance schemes by Cadbury prior to its 2010 takeover by the then Kraft Foods Inc., now the "global snacks powerhouse" Mondelez. The investigation uncovered a variety of schemes beyond the now familiar use of tax havens. |
| Mondelez Pakistan worker dead following 24-hour shift, denial of medical benefits | 19/06/2013 - 09:33 |
A worker at the Mondelez factory in Hub, Baluchistan has died of injuries suffered while he was preparing to return home after having worked consecutive 12-hour shifts. Muhammad Zohaib, 19 years old, suffered fatal injuries while preparing to go home on June 5. |
| Franco-Egyptian Mondelez Union Solidarity | 05/06/2013 - 15:23 |
FGA-CFDT union activists at Mondelez in France showed their support for and solidarity with Egyptian activists at Mondelez at a meeting in Paris on May 28. |
| Sacked Mondelez Egypt union leaders in Geneva meet with IUF, Swiss unions and international journalists | 03/06/2013 - 16:38 |
Two of the founding members of the independent union launched last year and then brutally repressed at the Mondelez Cadbury plant in Alexandria, Egypt travelled to Geneva for a special session of the IUF Executive Committee on May 30, where they described their experience in terms of the ongoing struggle for democratic and worker rights initiated by the overthrow of Mubarak. |
| More financial plunder in store as Peltz again doubles stake - what's behind the merger 'chatter' | 16/05/2013 - 16:34 |
Is Mondelez a food company or a financial construction? Top-level ownership of the company has changed dramatically only 6 months after Kraft was split up, and new investors eye the freshest, latest deal. Read what's behind it in the latest Mondelez Union Network. Read the full story in the latest Mondelez Union Network - download and distribute here! |
| Mondelez Pakistan, where 'outsiders' create 'delicious moments of joy' | 14/05/2013 - 11:46 |
Mondelez Pakistan has informed the government that the vast majority of those who make its products are "outsiders" beyond the scope of legal industrial relations protection, and that those who challenge this abuse should be stripped of their rights. |
| Cadbury/Mondelez Egypt union leaders speak out - watch the live interviews! | 13/05/2013 - 12:38 |
Two of the five sacked union leaders from the Mondelez factory in Alexandria who were hosted by Unite to twin their union with UK Cadbury unions May 2-3 can now be heard in live interviews made during their visit. They speak out on working conditions in Alexandria and their degradation under Mondelez, management abuses, their struggle for an independent union and the importance of international solidarity in winning rights for all Mondelez workers. |
| Work stoppage at Mondelez in Bremen | 10/05/2013 - 18:04 |
Under the motto, "Our wages are not the crowning glory", 140 workers staged a work stoppage on May 8 at the Mondelez coffee factory in Bremen, where the iconic "Krönung" (coronation) brand is produced. |
| UK and Egyptian unions 'twin' to stand up to human rights abuses at Mondelez | 10/05/2013 - 11:07 |
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| Mondelez looks to boost gum sales while stuck in the swamp of human rights abuses | 09/05/2013 - 08:27 |
“We’re not sitting by and accepting dismal gum sales” says Mondelez CEO Irene Rosenfeld while refusing to acknowledge the human rights abuses when 5 union leaders were dismissed from its chewing gum factory in Alexandria, Egypt.“The IUF is not sitting by and accepting the arbitrary dismissal of union leaders for exercising their rights” says IUF General Secretary Ron Oswald. |
