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IUF Global Meat Conference 2011 - Report

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The IUF Global Meat Conference hosted by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union in Omaha, Nebraska, on 1-2 November 2011, welcomed some 160 delegates from UFCW local organizations in the US and Canada and 29 delegates from outside North America. This was the IUF's 3rd Global Meat Conference, following previous conferences in Toronto (Canada) in 2002 and in Eastbourne (UK) in 2008.

Click here to read the report of the conference.

Conference Papers:

Agenda & Programme

Overview of the meat sector

JBS - Brasil Foods - Marfrig
Vion - Danish Crown - Groupe Doux
Tyson - Cargill - Smithfield
Nippon Meat Packers

Brazil
Canada
Germany
Denmark
Belgium
Spain (in Spanish only)

Poultry worker organizing in Thailand

China and the world production of meat

Ammonia refrigeration safety

IUF transnational company work

 

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