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Kraft/Mondelez Workers News
| Union busting at Kraft/Mondelez in Egypt, Tunisia - the company responds | 05/10/2012 - 14:35 |
Reports of arbitrary and punitive suspensions and dismissals have reached the IUF from trade unions at Kraft operations in Tunisia and Egypt. These cases, which are now the subject of urgent action campaigns on the IUF website, have caught the attention of the Business and Human Rights Resource Center (www.business-humanrights.org), which asked Kraft to respond. |
| Anti-union aggression continues at Kraft Tunisia | 26/09/2012 - 21:42 |
Management at the Saida biscuit factory in Tunisia continues its anti-union aggression as their response to a deadlock in collective bargaining negotiations. |
| Kraft Egypt removes union leaders who called for company to obey the law! | 03/09/2012 - 13:06 |
Kraft has sacked 5 members of the board of the newly-created independent union at the former Cadbury chocolate factory in Alexandria following a protest over the non-payment of a government-decreed social allowance. |
| Kraft Tunisia: Union leader sacked. His crime? Meeting his members! | 06/08/2012 - 10:24 |
Kraft Foods owns 49% of one of the largest biscuit factories in Africa, Société Tunisienne de Biscuits (SAIDA). The acquisition happened when Kraft bought Danone's biscuit division. The SAIDA plant employs 1,600 workers of which 80% are women. |
| Union-busting and new management appintments at Kraft's 'delicious world' | 31/07/2012 - 17:38 |
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| From Ohio to Punjab, the disposable jobs behind Kraft's 'power brands' | 11/05/2012 - 09:30 |
While Kraft gathers CSR awards and babbles on about 'Making a Delicious Difference in Our Communities', a recent article in a local Ohio newspaper provides new details of the squalid chain of outsourced disposable jobs at Consolidated Biscuits, Kraft's notoriously anti-union contract manufacturer in McComb. |
| There's always something going on at Kraft | 02/04/2012 - 16:00 |
What does it all mean for workers? Read the latest Kraft Union Network bulletin here. Download, copy and distribute! |
| Kraft wages war on jobs one plant at a time | 08/02/2012 - 11:25 |
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| Chokotoff to stay in Belgium | 16/01/2012 - 17:23 |
The Belgian unions' fight to keep production of iconic chocolate brands in Belgium has resulted in an agreement to keep production of Chokotoff - one of the 3 brands slated for transfer - in the factory in Halle. In exchange, the unions and their members have agreed to some concessions in benefits. |
| Fight to keep jobs at Kraft Foods distribution center a success! | 13/01/2012 - 17:28 |
The dispute with Kraft Foods over the company's intention to close their distribution center in Norcross (US state of Georgia) and shift work and jobs to a 3rd-party, non-union facility has been resolved to the satisfaction of the workers and their union, the BCTGM. |
Kraft appears to be improvising their planned breakup into two separate corporate entities. The latest pre-split top management appointment raises new concerns about the future. But faced with the prospect of a union at their factory in Allentown, Pennsylvania, top corporate management lost no time to combat what they perceived as a mortal danger to the company. There's always something going on at Kraft.
Chief financial Officer David Brearton confirmed on February 21 that Kraft’s enormous debt would be put on the grocery division as Kraft takes a “clean sheet approach as we set up lean corporate structures”. They call this ‘migration’... The following day, Kraft notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission that CEO Rosenfeld took home nearly USD 22 million in 2011. Kraft may be running out of room to grow revenue through raising prices. And the company has a new name to propose for the internatinal snacks division. There's always something going on.
As preparations advance for the big split - North American grocery and global snacks - Kraft is still struggling to sort out revenue flow and intellectual property spoils between the two new companies, and will ultimately have to figure out where to stick the enormous debt that paid for the Cadbury acquisition. But the company is losing no time in cutting jobs.
