Yesterday, April 27, early morning, La Constancia, a subsidiary of the giant brewer AB InBev, and Coca Cola bottler and merchandiser in El Salvador, launched an attack against dozens of organized workers.
When poverty is the pandemic
Hunger haunts more than half of Brazil’s population, according to a study coordinated by the Food for Justice Research Group and carried out in late 2020 by researchers from the Free University of Berlin, the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and the University of Bras
Wetten auf Fleischalternativen
JBS kaufte Vivera, das niederländische Unternehmen für vegetarische und pflanzlicher Lebensmittelbestandteile, die zu den drei grossten Herstellern Europas in dieser Sparte zählt.
Betting on plant-based “meat”
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.