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Kraft/Mondelez Workers News
| Strike against job cuts continues at Kraft Belgium | 24/06/2011 - 15:19 |
Workers at the Kraft confectionery factory in Halle, Belgium, have extended their strike against the proposed elimination of up to 100 jobs at their factory - originally announced for 48 hours - to run a full week, ending on the morning of June 27.
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| Kraft Belgium workers respond to planned layoffs with 48-hour strike/Cash cow Tang in billion$ orbit | 22/06/2011 - 11:09 |
Workers at the Kraft Foods Belgium Halle Côte d'Or factory called a 48-hour strike on June 20 in response to the management announcement that up to a quarter of the plant's 400 jobs could be eliminated in a restructuring operation that would see production of 3 of the plant's iconic products - Côte d'Or Chokotoff, Bouchées and Mignonnettes - transferred to Kaunas (Lithuania), Bratislava (Slovakia), and Wroclaw (Poland), respectively. |
| Warning strike brings improved wages at Kraft Foods Berlin | 14/06/2011 - 13:57 |
A 3-hour warning strike on April 27 helped to secure a wage agreement between the German foodworkers union NGG and Kraft Foods management. |
| IUF global Kraft meeting sets union priorities | 30/05/2011 - 17:16 |
Kraft has moved up the international union agenda – a necessary development in response to the company’s rapid international growth. No longer primarily a North American company with European and emerging market operations, Kraft has become, in the company’s words, a “global snacks powerhouse” following the acquisition of Danone’s European biscuit business and the 2010 acquisition of Cadbury. |
| Improved pay, benefits for New Zealand Cadbury workers | 27/05/2011 - 13:12 |
The Service and Food Workers' Union of New Zealand (SFWU) reports strong membership approval (95%) for a new agreement at the Dunedin chocolate plant. The agreement gives a 4% increase in wages, improved shift allowances and enhanced parental and bereavement leave. |
| UK Parliament report again slams Kraft | 25/05/2011 - 12:27 |
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| Recycling disposable jobs: Kraft Finland workers dismissed, then offered 'zero-contracts' | 20/05/2011 - 15:50 |
Kraft unions around the world have condemned the brutal suppression of permanent employment for long-serving employees at the company's biscuit factory in Vantaa, Finland, where 24 permanent workers have been handed dismissal notices, of which 19 have been told they can return to employment… on a call-in basis with no guaranteed hours. |
| Global cost-cutting offensive intensifies at Kraft | 02/05/2011 - 11:58 |
On March 16, Kraft nonchalantly announced - in violation of the prescribed procedure - the closing of its Madrid Business Center with the elimination of 70 jobs. Spanish unions are questioning whether Kraft was less than rigorous in its "due diligence" when it contracted branded cheese production at Quesería Menorquina to the now-bankrupt Nueva Rumasa. |
| More broken Kraft promises – this time in Spain | 14/04/2011 - 16:03 |
Some 160 Spanish workers producing Kraft-branded products are at risk of joining the growing line of unemployed former Kraft workers. |
| Are commodity prices to blame for restructuring and layoffs at Kraft? | 25/03/2011 - 12:46 |
Or is Kraft - with additional leverage over suppliers since it swallowed Cadbury - simply racing to complete the massive cost savings it promised investors would be achieved by 2012 through the Cadbury deal? |
The second UK House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee appointed to examine the consequences of Kraft's Cadbury takeover has just published its report (available online 
