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Kraft/Mondelez Workers News
| Lose half your thumb in a machine and you're fired: the brutal reality of working at Mondelez Egypt | 19/03/2013 - 10:51 |
Click here to send a message to Mondelez!Ahmad Abdulghani Awad Abdulghani, 26 years old, worked at Cadbury Egypt, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mondelez, from 2008 to December 2011. He never had a permanent job, but was part of the army of precarious workers making chewing gum at the Alexandria factory. He lost half his thumb while operating a machine which should normally be run by three persons. Then he lost his job. |
| IUF tells US government Mondelez violates international standards, files formal complaint | 18/03/2013 - 17:44 |
The US-based transnational snack foods company Mondelez has consistently refused to respond to communications from the IUF documenting evidence of company abuses. When Mondelez was asked to respond (indirectly) to the IUF by the Resource Center on Business and Human Rights, the company evaded the key issues and made no meaningful reference to international standards. |
| When the boss says there's no money for a raise and plants must close, ask about the new share buybacks! | 15/03/2013 - 17:12 |
March 13, 2013 DEERFIELD, Ill., March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mondelez International, Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to the lesser of 40 million shares or $1.2 billion of Mondelez International's Class A Common Stock. The primary purpose of the program will be to offset dilution from the company's equity compensation plans. |
| Behind the belVita recall: union-busting and agency work | 27/02/2013 - 14:26 |
On February 21, 2013, Mondelez issued a voluntary recall of two varieties of its belVita breakfast biscuits in the United States and Puerto Rico due to the potential presence of wire mesh in the product. Days earlier, CEO Rosenfeld told analysts that belVita is one of the products she is most excited about, with new flavours in the pipeline. |
| 10 million dollar bonus for Mondelez (ex-Kraft) CEO after less than 3 months on the job! | 23/01/2013 - 12:36 |
Mondelez CEO Irene Rosenfeld has been granted a USD 10 million 'special equity award' of stock in the new company, less than three months after Mondelez was ripped out of the former Kraft Foods Inc. |
| IUF calls on Mondelez CEO Irene Rosenfeld to reinstate dismissed union leaders in Tunisia and Egypt | 28/11/2012 - 16:42 |
In an open letter to CEO Irene Rosenfeld, IUF General Secretary Ron Oswald calls on Mondelez to reinstate union leaders dismissed in Tunisia and Egypt as a result of their activities in support of union members. The dismissals are human rights violations in breach of the OECD guidelines on multinational enterprises and the UN Guiding principles on Business and Human Rights. |
| Kraft split starting to show its impact on workers | 09/11/2012 - 10:15 |
Hardly one month after the creation of Mondelez, the company has made its first announcements of proposed closures and job cuts: in Austria and Canada, two long-established factories are to close affecting some 600 workers. Read about it here…. |
| Kraft Foods split claims its first victims | 02/11/2012 - 16:40 |
"As expected, it's workers who are paying the price of the Kraft Foods split", IUF affiliate PRO-GE said in response to Mondelez' announcement, on 30 October, that the Jacobs coffee roasting facility in Vienna (Austria) would be closed. "Mondelez is simply continuing what has long been common practice at Kraft Foods: abandoning sustainable corporate policy in favor of short-term stock market gains." |
| Kraft's no Ring policy doesn't Ring true | 17/10/2012 - 10:24 |
IUF affiliates in Australia and New Zealand are fighting a Kraft edict that no wedding rings shall be worn in their factories. While food workers are accustomed to removing jewellery for food safety and health and safety reasons, the sacred wedding ring is normally exempt. But Kraft policy states if the rings can’t be removed, they must be cut off. Food companies normally deal with the issue through the requirement to wear gloves or an x-ray sensitive adhesive band. |
| Kraft split creates 2 cash cows, multiple challenges for unions | 15/10/2012 - 17:17 |
The long-announced split became official on October 2, but shareholders got a big surprise: it is Mondelez, not the new North American grocery company Kraft Foods Group (KRFT) which has inherited the former Kraft Foods Inc. enormous debt! All the debt has gone to Mondelez, where workers will be consigned to paying the interest charges in an organization driven by aggressive cost-cutting. |
