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[IUF News] urgent action Colombia, India/union victory at Nestlé India
Colombian Oil Palm Workers Under Fire
Workers in Colombia are once again victims of armed violence for trying to exercise their right to join and be represented by a trade union. On January 14, armed gunmen entered the Palo Alto oil palm plantation, Ciénaga district, Magdelena, evicting 185 workers at gunpoint. The IUF-affiliated SINTRAINAGRO has called for solidarity action and protests. To learn more, and to send a message to the government of Colombia, go to http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/187
Tata Continues Collective Punishment of Indian Tea Workers
Nearly one thousand tea workers and their families continue to suffer collective punishment at the hands of India's Tata Group. Workers at the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal, India went without pay, food and rations from September 14 until December 12 last year following a protest in August over the mistreatment a 22 year-old tea garden worker who was denied maternity leave and forced to continue work as a tea plucker despite being 8 months pregnant. The estate has been reopened - but workers have received no wages or rations for the lockout period.. Their struggle continues, and needs your support: http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/180
Fourth Nestlé India Union in Recognition and Bargaining Win
On January 5 the union at Nestlé Pantnagar, the company's largest and newest (2006) plant in the country, signed a first collective agreement on wages and benefits, joining its 3 sister unions in the IUF-affiliated Federation of All India Nestle Employees in finally winning the right to negotiate terms of employment previously declared "secret" by management. http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/185
Ron Oswald
General Secretary, IUF
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) 8, rampe du Pont-Rouge
1213 Petit Lancy, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 793 22 33
Fax: +41 22 793 22 38
web-site: www.iuf.org <outbind://10/www.iuf.org>
Colombian Oil Palm Workers Under Fire
Workers in Colombia are once again victims of armed violence for trying to exercise their right to join and be represented by a trade union. On January 14, armed gunmen entered the Palo Alto oil palm plantation, Ciénaga district, Magdelena, evicting 185 workers at gunpoint. The IUF-affiliated SINTRAINAGRO has called for solidarity action and protests. To learn more, and to send a message to the government of Colombia, go to http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/187
Tata Continues Collective Punishment of Indian Tea Workers
Nearly one thousand tea workers and their families continue to suffer collective punishment at the hands of India's Tata Group. Workers at the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal, India went without pay, food and rations from September 14 until December 12 last year following a protest in August over the mistreatment a 22 year-old tea garden worker who was denied maternity leave and forced to continue work as a tea plucker despite being 8 months pregnant. The estate has been reopened - but workers have received no wages or rations for the lockout period.. Their struggle continues, and needs your support: http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/180
Fourth Nestlé India Union in Recognition and Bargaining Win
On January 5 the union at Nestlé Pantnagar, the company's largest and newest (2006) plant in the country, signed a first collective agreement on wages and benefits, joining its 3 sister unions in the IUF-affiliated Federation of All India Nestle Employees in finally winning the right to negotiate terms of employment previously declared "secret" by management. http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/185
Ron Oswald
General Secretary, IUF
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) 8, rampe du Pont-Rouge
1213 Petit Lancy, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 793 22 33
Fax: +41 22 793 22 38
web-site: www.iuf.org <outbind://10/www.iuf.org>