JBS has acquired the Netherlands-based company Vivera, Europe’s third largest food producer, to gain a solid footing in the plant-based “meat” market.
Wir machen den Kampf der NGG zu unserem eigenen“
Mit deutschlandweiten Streiks und Aktionen setzten sich die Mitarbeiter für bessere Löhne und faire Arbeitsbedingungen in der Fleischindustrie ein.
National strike in German meatpacking plants
Last April 7, in a meeting of European and Brazilian labor organizations that represent meat industry workers, Peter Schmidt, of the German Food, Beverages and Catering Union (Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten, NGG), declared: “Trade union actions against workforce casualization in meatpacking plants in Brazil and Germany are part of the same struggle.
Daughter of a poisoned land
At almost 79 years of age, Trân Tô Nga says she is fighting “the” battle of her life: trying to hold 14 multinational corporations accountable for the use of “Agent Orange” during the Vietnam War, which destroyed her body and life, and the bodies and lives of many of her fellow nationals. The court action she brought against these corporations in 2014 in France is now in its final stage.
“If structural conditions do not change, people will continue to flee, with or without coyotes”
Gabriela Mundo, International Affairs Director at the Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office of Guatemala, discusses the causes that lead thousands of Guatemalans—men, women, and children—to abandon their country in search of a better future.
“Go forward, I say! Going backwards has only hurt us!”
In its first episode, Working Women Moving Forward introduces us to Dania Obando, general secretary of the Union of Palm Workers (SITRAPA) of Costa Rica.
Brazilian meatpacking plants also under fire
The claimants allege that the French multinational corporation sells meat linked to deforestation and land-grabbing practices in Amazonia.
The usual suspects
In what could be seen as a sequel to the famous Monsanto Papers (a series of documents revealing the methods employed by that transnational corporation to discredit those who were denouncing the harmful effects of its products and the pressure exerted by the company on governments, politicians, and scientists), the British newspaper The Guardian has just uncovered similar tactics used by Bayer, Monsanto’s current owner, to make Mexico abandon its decision to ban glyphosate.
“Fyffes’s nobodies”
In abject poverty. Completely forsaken. This is how workers of the multinational corporation Fyffes/Sumitomo live in Honduras. Workers who have given the company years of their lives, yet are denied a dignified life.
Poverty “made in Fyffes”
This is how workers of the multinational corporation Fyffes/Sumitomo live in Honduras.