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Kraft/Mondelez Workers News
| Kraft CEO missing in action as company steps up its vanishing act | 21/03/2011 - 14:08 |
Called to testify last week before a UK parliamentary committee of enquiry, Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld failed to appear, even declining an offer to answer questions by video hookup. “Kraft declined to comment on Rosenfeld's whereabouts”, the UK Guardian reported on March 15. |
| Spain: UGT and CC.OO campaign together for their members’ rights at bankrupt food company | 18/03/2011 - 18:08 |
Under the motto: "In defense of employment and workplaces at Nueva Rumasa" more than 3,000 workers marched in Madrid on 12 March in a demonstration called jointly by the UGT and CC.OO. agro-food federations. |
| Food, Power and Human Rights: New Publication from Swedish Food Workers | 21/06/2010 - 17:18 |
Malin Klingzell-Brulin and Gunnar Brulin, journalists for the Swedish Food Workers' monthly Mål & Medel, have written a book we can recommend gladly, not only to trade unionists and workers within the global food system, but to all concerned with the most fundamental of human rights, namely the right to food. Food for Thought: on food, power and human rights, tackles a theme - power in the world food system, that has been written about from many points of view. |
| Kraft Responds to Post-Cadbury 'Agitation' with…Surveys? | 05/05/2010 - 09:42 |
Anyone following the UK parliamentary enquiry into the takeover of Cadbury by Kraft could not help but conclude that Kraft was either less than truthful, or incompetent, or both, in its cynical manipulation of false hopes around the Cadbury Somerdale plant previously slated for closure (see Kraft on a Diet after the Cadbury Feast - How Many Union Jobs Lighter?). |
| Kraft on a Diet After the Cadbury Feast - How Many Union Jobs Lighter? | 19/02/2010 - 09:09 |
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| Kraft and Cadbury, Victors and Spoils | 21/01/2010 - 10:06 |
Barring any last-minute surprises, Kraft, the world's second-largest food company, will swallow UK-based Cadbury. Barely a month after deriding Kraft as an "unfocused" conglomerate and declaring "There is no strategic, managerial operational or financial merit in combining with Kraft", Cadbury Chairman Roger Carr announced that the price was right. He praised Kraft for its commitment to "our heritage, values and people throughout the world"…and acknowledged the inevitability of job cuts. |
| Unite Demands Kraft Divulge Employment Implications of Potential Cadbury Takeover | 18/11/2009 - 08:45 |
As the battle for the financial spoils from a potential hostile takeover of UK-based Cadbury by Kraft Foods heats up, the IUF's UK affiliate Unite has called on Kraft to lay its plans on the table, and to offer clear guarantees on jobs and pensions. |
| When Investors Buzz, Workers Take Cover | 24/09/2009 - 12:00 |
As the OECD released its latest Employment Outlook, which foresees a total of 57 million people without jobs in the world's 30 richest countries next year, the battle heated up over the price of a takeover of UK-based confectionery company Cadbury by Kraft, the world's second largest food corporation. |
