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. [1]
Agenda & Programme [2]
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Overview of the meat sector [3]
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JBS [4] - Brasil Foods [5] - Marfrig [6]
Vion [7] - Danish Crown [8] - Groupe Doux [9]
Tyson [10] - Cargill [11] - Smithfield [12]
Nippon Meat Packers [13]
Brazil [14]
Canada [15]
Germany [16]
Denmark [17]
Belgium [18]
Spain [19] (in Spanish only)
Poultry worker organizing in Thailand [20]
China and the world production of meat [21]
Ammonia refrigeration safety [22]
IUF transnational company work [23]