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Kraft/Mondelez Workers News
| UK Cadbury workers link with Egyptian union to stand up against Mondelēz human rights abuses | 06/05/2013 - 12:02 |
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| May Day solidarity with Mondelez workers | 03/05/2013 - 13:36 |
On May Day 2013, IUF affiliates in Lagos, Nigeria marched with banners in support of the Screamdelez campaign while in Pakistan, members of the IUF-affiliated national food workers federation marched in Multan and in Rahim Yar Khan in solidarity with the union at Kraft Foods Pakistan (formerly Cadbury, now Mondelez-owned), which has come under strong management attack) and with the unions at Mondelez in Egypt and Tunisia. |
| Mondelēz solidarity action in India | 16/04/2013 - 09:55 |
On 14 April the Punjab Food Workers' Alliance held a protest action against human rights violations by Mondelez. The Alliance is comprised of 19 unions representing workers in state dairy cooperatives as well as the operations of major transnational food companies in Punjab including PepsiCo, Unilever, GSK Horlicks and Nestlé. |
| Support for Mondelez workers at Norwegian Food Workers Congress | 12/04/2013 - 00:00 |
NNN's Congress (Oslo, 7-11 April 2013) unanimously adopted a statement in support of the IUF campaign on Mondelez.
Swedish Food Workers' Union president Hans-Olof Nilsson and Norwegian Food Workers' Union president Jan-Egil Pedersen displaying the Screamdelez posters. |
| Revenue down, rights abuses up - Mondelez CEO 2012 compensation leaps 40% to USD 28 million | 04/04/2013 - 14:04 |
New documents filed with the US regulatory authorities show a substantial increase in Mondelez CEO Irene Rosenfeld's total compensation for 2012 - a year marked by significant human rights violations "executional missteps" (the company's phrase) and falling revenue for the snacks maker. |
| Rights violations and lockout threat at Mondelez Pakistan | 03/04/2013 - 14:41 |
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| Press conference in Tunis highlights rights violations at SOTUBI/Mondelez | 30/03/2013 - 18:56 |
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| Easter with Screamdelez: the 2013 Screamegg Hunt! | 27/03/2013 - 13:38 |
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| UMT pledges support for Screamdelez campaign | 25/03/2013 - 11:21 |
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| Dutch union support for Screamdelez campaign | 24/03/2013 - 13:47 |
On the first day of its Congress in the Hague (Netherlands, March 21-22) the FNV Bondgenoten showed its support for the global IUF campaign for justice for Mondelez workers in Egypt and Tunisia. FNV Bondgenoten will be publicizing the campaign and promoting awareness among its members, the wider labour movement and the public.
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Members of UNITE at UK Cadbury are joining forces with fellow workers in Egypt to challenge human rights violations by Cadbury’s parent company Mondelez International. On May 2-3 Unite hosted two sacked workers from the Alexandria Cadbury plant - Nasr Awad and Hussein Ahmad - who were among the 5 founding members of an independent union dismissed last year as part of the company’s drive to crush the union. 
Management at Kraft Foods Pakistan (formerly Cadbury, now Mondelez-owned) has moved to lock out union workers and attacked union leaders in retaliation for the union's defense of the rights of the factory's hundreds of contract workers. Mondelez makes Cadbury confectionery products in Pakistan with 53 permanent and over 350 contract workers, over 150 of whom are in 'core' manufacturing jobs.
During the World Social Forum in Tunis, the FGAT-UGTT organized a press conference on 27 March with the participation of Zied Nalufi, the union leader unfairly dismissed by SOTUBI management, members of the new union board at SOTUBI/Mondelez and the IUF.
Finding the Mondelez Screameggs this Easter is easier than ever - the abuses are difficult to conceal, the eggs are out in the open and there's a big basket filled with jumbo Screameggs!
At a meeting between the IUF and delegates from the food industry section of UMT, the Moroccan Union of Labour, on 23 March 2013, General Secretary Miloudi Moukharek pledged the support of the entire union for the IUF campaign in defense of workers' rights at Mondelez, and solidarity with the unjustly dismissed union leaders at Mondelez in Tunisia and Egypt.
