TNC UPDATE #37

11-2018 A regular update of IUF TNC activity exclusively for IUF affiliates. More detail can be requested from the individual IUF staff person identified with each entry.

AGRICULTURE Contents [email protected] Agriculture: Chiquita • Chiquita [email protected] Beverages: The regular review meeting between Chiquita • The Coca-Cola Company and the IUF/COLSIBA took place on September • PepsiCo/Frito-Lay 17, in Costa Rica. • Refresco Agenda items included reviewing on-going work Breweries: on gender and occupational health and safety, and the impact on workers of the port changes in • AB InBev Limon, Costa Rica where a new container port • Carlsberg comes into operation in February 2019. It was Catering: agreed that this issue would be added to the • Sodexo agenda of the regular meetings in Costa Rica between Sintracobal and Chiquita. • Compass Fast Food: The trade union side also raised concerns about • delays in collective bargaining in several Burger King countries. It was agreed that for the next meeting • McDonald’s IUF/COLSIBA would prepare a document on • TGI Fridays trends in collective bargaining in the operations Food Processing: of Chiquita in Latin America and that the meeting • would also explore what training in collective Cargill bargaining could assist both local managers and • Danone unions. • Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) The 2019 meetings will take place in Honduras in • Mondelēz the first half of 2019 and Guatemala in the • Nestlé second half of the year. At these meetings • Unilever Chiquita will present details of the type of contracts women are employed on in addition to Hotel Chains: the regular information on the participation of • AccorHotels/AccorInvest women in the workforce. • Marriott • Meliá BEVERAGES [email protected] • Hotel Housekeepers Campaign Meat: The Coca-Cola Company [email protected] • HKScan Tobacco: IUF affiliates across IUF’s membership continue • to support the “Zero Rights” campaign in Philip Morris International support of independent and democratic unions (PMI) and bargaining rights for Coca-Cola workers in Haiti, Indonesia, Ireland, the Philippines and the United States. CLICK HERE to send a message 1 to The Coca-Cola Company, demanding the UNITE HERE's Las Vegas Local 226 members company remedies all of the growing number of led by IUF President Mark Lauritsen took action human rights violations within the Coca-Cola in support of the campaign outside the flagship System. Coca-Cola store on the Las Vegas strip. Read more here. Mobilization against attacks on independent unions at Coca-Cola Amatil in Indonesia Affiliates including unions representing Coca- continues and escalates. The recently Cola workers around the world joined by IUF established Coca-Cola Indonesia Workers International Secretariat staff led by IUF General Council brings together four independent Secretary Sue Longley held a spirited unions and challenges the company's collusion demonstration on September 13 at The Coca- with the Suharto regime legacy organization, Cola Company-sponsored Business and Human the national union structure that was Rights conference held in the company's global established by that military dictatorship. headquarters in Atlanta. The action concluded Members re-elected dismissed union chairman with an IUF “alternative human rights briefing” at Atra Narwanto as chairman of the SBCCD two local universities where trade union speakers union at the company's Cibitung distribution from the USA, Indonesia and the Philippines center. In doing so union members signalled described their struggle for rights at Coca-Cola. their determination to secure their collective See more here. rights and see all of their elected leaders Following these successful protests and reinstated. meetings with student groups in Atlanta, IUF In the Philippines IUF affiliates are fighting members from Indonesia, the Philippines and against Coca-Cola bottler FEMSA's business Haiti shared their experiences of The Coca-Cola model that is built on job destruction, labour law Company's human rights failures in their violations and systematic rights abuses. Read countries with IUF members working at Coca- more HERE. Cola in Boston and Philadelphia. The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) had earlier An international union delegation, including Atra closed two directly owned, strongly unionized Narwanto and Lutfi Arifiyanto, the victimized syrup concentrate plants (the key “secret leaders of independent unions at Coca-Cola formula” ingredient in their flagship product) in Amatil Indonesia, visited Canada and met with Ireland at Drogheda and Athy. Despite a large IUF affiliates UFCW and UNIFOR. The IUF number of union members at the remaining international campaign delegation's tour of syrup plant at Ballina, Co Mayo, the Company Canada ended at the annual meeting of the refuses to recognize the IUF-affiliated SIPTU. Canadian Soft Drink Workers Council in Their denial of rights continues despite a Halifax, Nova Scotia where the Council pledged September Irish Labour Court recommendation full support for the IUF's “Zero Rights” campaign. that they meet with SIPTU to negotiate terms The IUF team at the biannual IUF/Coca-Cola and conditions of employment for SIPTU’s Atlanta meeting on September 20, 2018 at Coca- growing membership. The IUF Secretariat sent Cola headquarters included representatives from a fact-finding mission to investigate the ongoing those unions in Indonesia, the Philippines, the rights violations at the Ballina plant in early USA and Haiti. The meeting addressed these June. They met SIPTU members who asked for ongoing rights violations in Haiti, Indonesia, anonymity because of the pressure known Ireland, the Philippines, Spain and the United union supporters or members face from States. management at the plant. The IUF continues to demand that TCCC takes When senior Coca-Cola corporate management action to meet its international human rights spoke at the Deutsche Bank Global Consumer obligations for its direct employees in Ireland and Conference in Paris on June 13, 2018, the IUF also takes effective action to ensure its bottlers in Secretariat and members of IUF French Haiti, Indonesia, the USA, Spain and the affiliates FGTA-FO and FGA-CFDT protested in Philippines do the same. support of the “Zero Rights” campaign at the conference venue. The IUF Secretariat has also contacted Coca- Cola and its bottler SOBOMA in Mauritania in STIBYS members in have also Honduras support of the National Union of Food Industries demonstrated against casualization at Coca- Workers (SNTIA) insisting that the company fully Cola's bottler and in support of the IUF's "Zero explains the reasons behind the closure of its Rights" campaign. factory and the dismissal of all workers and takes On August 13 in Las Vegas, members from the action to mitigate the impact on the workers IUF's affiliate BCTGM from across the USA and affected. 2 Following major progress at Coca-Cola’s bottler overwhelmingly ratified a new collective in Pakistan (owned by Turkish bottler CCI) a bargaining agreement. training activity on gender equality and increasing women’s employment at Coca-Cola Refresco operations took place in Istanbul on November [email protected] 6, 2018. The activity brought together IUF The IUF Secretariat has asked affiliates with members from Pakistan and Turkey. members at Refresco to contact Refresco The IUF Secretariat organized a mini survey German management to demand that Refresco amongst IUF affiliates that represent Coca-Cola Germany continue good faith negotiations with Hellenic workers to compare line operators’ IUF-affiliated NGG and sign first collective grades and job descriptions in support of IUF bargaining agreements at the Erftstadt and members at Coca-Cola Ukraine’s wage and Grünsfeld plants. There are currently no working conditions negotiations. collective agreements in place at both locations, even though NGG has long-standing collective IUF affiliates that have not yet received it can agreements with Refresco management at two get the report from the most recent 2018 IUF other locations in Calvörde (Saxony-Anhalt) and Global Coca-Cola Alliance Meeting results by Herrath (Northrhine Westphalia). NGG thanked contacting [email protected]. ACV-CSC in Belgium, Teamsters in the US, FNV in the Netherlands and Unite the Union in the UK PepsiCo/Frito-Lay for their efforts to raise these issues with their [email protected] Refresco local and corporate managements. The IUF Secretariat sent out a gender equality survey to affiliates that represent PepsiCo and BREWERIES Frito-Lay workers to identify any discriminatory [email protected] employment practices. This is part of IUF efforts to promote women workers’ employment and AB InBev equality. The survey results will help IUF [email protected] members raise concrete equality and Management at global brewer discrimination issues with PepsiCo corporate AB InBev's plant in Sonepat, India continues to management. You can obtain a copy of this attack trade union rights. For the past two years survey from [email protected]. local managers have refused to negotiate a The IUF Secretariat has contacted PepsiCo collective bargaining agreement with the Haryana corporate management about ongoing rights Breweries Limited Mazdoor Union (HBLM) and violations in PepsiCo/Frito-Lay’s supplier opted instead for repression. They have Cargill Turkey. PepsiCo/Frito-Lay have been suspended active union members and dismissed told they need to meet obligations under the four elected union leaders including the President OECD Guidelines to undertake due diligence and the General Secretary. CLICK HERE TO and exercise leverage with this supplier to SEND A MESSAGE to AB InBev calling on the ensure Cargill takes action to remedy its human company to remedy its escalating human rights rights violations. abuses by reinstating with full rights all dismissed and suspended HBLM union leaders and The second meeting of IUF affiliates with members and withdrawing false police charges PepsiCo corporate management will take against union leaders. Please use your union’s place on November 14 in Washington. A report Facebook and Twitter accounts to promote and action points from the first international the IUF campaign and spread the word. IUF/PepsiCo meeting that took place on February 23, 2018 in Geneva and the report of Peaceful protest in defense of union rights and recognition continues outside the factory gate. the IUF PepsiCo and Frito-Lay unions’ th network meeting action that preceded the September 6 marked the 200 day of continuous meeting with PepsiCo can be obtained from protest action in front of the AB InBev Budweiser [email protected]. plant. Unions from other AB InBev sites and other brewery companies joined the protest In the USA workers at Liberty Bottling action in solidarity with the Haryana Breweries Company, who are represented by the IUF- Limited Mazdoor Union (HBMU). These included affiliated Teamsters Local 830 in Philadelphia, the Cambodian Food and Service Workers' have ratified a new collective agreement. Read Federation (CFSWF), the General Workers more here. Union of Timor Leste (SJT-TL), IUF-affiliated Also in the USA drivers, merchandisers and unions Tekgıda-İş in Turkey, Chernihiv Branch of warehouse workers at Pepsi-Cola Bottling PJSC SUN InBev Ukraine union and ACV-CSC represented by Teamsters Local 683 in Belgium. 3 The following IUF Brewery Division members AB InBev has discarded parts of the CBA that have also contacted the company: Chernihiv was signed with the IUF-affiliated National Union branch of PJSC SUN InBev Ukraine, Pakistan of Peruvian Backus and Johnston Workers and, Food Workers Federation, IUF-JCC, SETCa at its Motupe plant, has unilaterally increased Liège FGTB and ABVV – FGTB HORVAL in weekly working hours to 56 hours over 7 days Belgium, NGG Germany, IUF Latin America including 3 consecutive working Sundays in any region on behalf of affiliates in Latin America, one month. Some of the union leaders who have AMWU National Office Australia, STIBYS protested these imposed changes have been Honduras, UNIFOR Canada. suspended and others have been threatened with dismissal. In the face of this hostile attitude These unions and the entire IUF Brewery towards union leaders and workers the union Division have declared their full solidarity with organized a 2-day national strike at the company AB InBev Sonepat-India workers and their on April 11 and 12, 2018. union. The strike was broken by Backus (AB InBev) Brewery affiliates particularly those with through more dismissals and more sanctions. members at AB InBev can continue to support HBLM union leaders and members by doing the The company then escalated its pressure on the following: union and its General Secretary, Luis Samán Cuenca by filing a criminal complaint against him • Raise these issues with your local AB InBev for alleged acts of collaboration with terrorism in management and inform the IUF Secretariat September. IUF affiliates in Latin America and of any response you might receive; IUF-affiliated FGTB-Horval in Belgium wrote • Demand that AB InBev unconditionally letters to Backus and AB InBev managements reinstates HBLM leaders and members sharply critical of AB InBev’s persecution of trade immediately; union leaders and worker dismissals all aimed at attacking the union’s legitimate right to strike. IUF • Ask what practical steps AB InBev is taking members outside Peru called on AB INBEV to enter into good faith negotiations for a BACKUS to withdraw the charges against the new collective bargaining agreement with General Secretary and reinstate the dismissed the Haryana Breweries Limited Mazdoor workers. Union at the Sonepat plant; As a result of local and international pressure • Inform your members about the rights those charges have been dismissed but as yet violations in India by printing and the company has failed to reinstate the unfairly distributing this postcard (click here) at AB dismissed workers. The company has also failed InBev operations in your country; to start to negotiate the ending of all outstanding • Organize meetings, rallies etc. in solidarity rights violations with the IUF’s affiliate in Peru. with HBLM union leaders and members and All of the above represent significant breaches of send us photos, which will be much international workplace rights standards, most appreciated by the union in India. Click here notably the OECD Guidelines for Multinational to download a display banner that you can Companies and ILO Conventions C87 and C98. have made and use for solidarity actions and photos; Carlsberg [email protected] • Click here for the sample letter you can send to AB InBev CEO Carlos Brito, Zone On June 14, 2018, IUF-affiliated NGG that President for APAC Jan Craps, AB InBev represents workers in the Holsten brewery India President Ben Verhaert, copying owned by Carlsberg held a ballot vote about [email protected]. Please also send your further industrial action. 91.6% of the voting letter via hard copy to AB InBev CEO Carlos union members voted in favor in a dispute over Brito. the social protection of employees following Holsten Brewery’s job cuts. Since being acquired by AB InBev in late 2016 Peru's brewery giant Backus has been Because there were threats to fundamental aggressively attacking the fundamental rights of collective bargaining rights the IUF proposed a its workers. The company has dismissed close meeting with the Carlsberg corporate to 1,500 workers and replaced them with casual management to discuss the way the company employees who face far greater barriers when has handled this restructuring in Germany. trying to access fundamental workplace rights. Corporate management failed to respond. The NGG has now finalized an agreement to mitigate the impact of the Carlsberg plan. The 4 agreement which was approved by close to 90% of workers provides employment FAST FOOD guarantees through end of March 2022 and no [email protected] job reductions for the permanent workforce An October 3 IUF Fast Food sector meeting together with agreed limitations on outsourcing. included specific discussions on McDonald’s, TGI Fridays and Burger King. The meeting in CATERING London was hosted by UK affiliates Unite the [email protected] Union and the Bakers Union. IUF member unions representing fast food workers in Argentina, Sodexo Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Canada and the USA, [email protected] Colombia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, The annual IUF-Sodexo meeting was held on New Zealand (by Skype), Nordic unions, Spain October 17. Sodexo has a new CEO, Denis and Thailand came together to share Machuel and a new Corporate HR Director, experiences and strategy. Cathy Desquesses. The company has The next day October 4, International Fast expressed their intention to renew IUF/Sodexo Food Workers Day saw strikes by workers in engagement building on past progress. The TGI Fridays, McDonald’s, and the British pub meeting agreed the IUF and Sodexo would chain Wetherspoon, and two rallies in London continue to undertake joint work on sexual and more in other UK cities. harassment within the framework of the joint commitment signed in 2017 and strengthen Participants at the strategy meeting on the work on equality and diversity. previous day joined the London rallies and expressed their support for the growing number The IUF stressed that Sodexo had an obligation of strikes at fast food outlets in cities across the to negotiate with affiliates to mitigate changes US. to employment and work practices that occur as a result of changing technology and to invest in In the Asia/Pacific region, activities included skills training. support for the global fight for fast food workers’ rights by IUF affiliates in Hong Kong, Indonesia A wide-ranging discussion of the obligations of and the Philippines, while trade unionists and transnational companies to undertake human Burger King workers in Spain demonstrated rights due diligence took place including against the recent dismissals of union members recently established legal obligations arising and activists. from the French law “Devoir de Vigilance”. The IUF will monitor developments in compliance McDonald’s including the case law as it develops. [email protected] Compass The IUF and ITUC have requested an urgent [email protected] meeting with the ILO Director General to discuss corporate partnerships following the ILO decision Chartwell, a Compass subsidiary in the US to partner with fast food giant McDonald's instructed police at the University of Texas in through the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Dallas to ban IUF-affiliated UFCW organizers Youth. Participants at the strategy meeting and from the university campus as part of a “union the IUF HRCT Trade Group Board have affirmed avoidance” strategy by the company. their strong opposition. When the union offered employees of Compass In the US, on October 4, fast food workers in union membership, the local management Chicago went on strike and rallied outside the reacted by distributing information discouraging McDonald's headquarters, where some 50 workers from joining the union, including false protestors were arrested. In Milwaukee, workers information about the benefits of union also walked off the job, shutting down a membership. McDonald's outlet. Their actions followed After IUF Secretariat intervention with the walkouts by McDonald's workers two days earlier company at international level and negotiations in Flint and Detroit, where demonstrators were between the UFCW and North American also arrested. Compass management, local Chartwell management was directed to stop all activity aimed at discouraging union membership.

5 As a result of local and international pressure, FOOD PROCESSING Danone Indonesia management recognized the [email protected] union and stopped their interference including [email protected] their contact with the local community. Cargill In Belgium as a direct result of successful local [email protected] negotiations by the IUF-affiliated CCAS/ACV- Fourteen union activists and members of IUF CSC based on the IUF-Danone Agreement on affiliate Tekgida-İş, now known as Sustainable Employment and Access to #TheCargill14, were unfairly dismissed from Rights, the union signed a local agreement for their jobs on April 17, 2018 while organizing a the Rotselaar plant with Danone Leuven union at Cargill in Bursa-Orhangazi, Turkey. management. The agreement ensures the These 14 dismissals follow those of seven other company’s ongoing commitment to sustainable workers dismissed by Cargill management at employment. Based on this agreement after 6 the Bursa-Orhangazi factory in 2012, 2014 and months of employment workers under agency 2015 solely as a consequence of their union contracts become workers under Danone fixed activity. The Turkish Supreme Court found in term contracts. The ACV-CSC has thanked the favour of the employees in each of these 7 IUF for its support in raising this issue with incidences. corporate management and for signing the important Sustainable Employment and Access As of October 17, 2018, the Cargill 14 had been to Rights Agreement with Danone. The protesting for 184 days. Their protests continue. agreement calls for local negotiations limiting As part of their protest actions, a large casual employment, an opportunity that demonstration on September 18 in front of the CCAS/ACV-CSC used to reach this local company’s Turkish head office followed the 14 agreement. workers' march of over 115 kilometres from the Bursa-Orhangazi plant to the company's Turkey At the Consultation and Information headquarters, which spread their message Committee (CIC) meeting in October 2018, the across Turkey. The IUF Secretariat was discussion focused on the impact of IUF/Danone represented at the September 18 protest rally. agreements in the United States, Russia and Indonesia and concretely to obstacles to IUF affiliates from around the world have meaningful trade union recognition and access to contacted Cargill expressing their support for the rights guaranteed by IUF/Danone the 14 workers in Turkey who were dismissed agreements in Russia and Indonesia. while exercising their right to freedom of Presentations focused on the Health at Work association. The IUF and its affiliated unions agreement in France, the agreement signed in will continue to take action until a positive Rotselaar-Belgium, about reduction of temporary settlement is reached at Cargill-Turkey. work in Bierun-Poland, and the If you have not yet signed the Cargill Urgent union/management process that accompanied Action demanding reinstatement of the Cargill the transition of an old factory to state of art 14, you can do so here. factory in the Netherlands. Danone A Strategic IUF/Danone Biannual Meeting will [email protected] take place on December 19 and 20 in Paris. [email protected] Amongst key issues to be discussed will be compliance with IUF/Danone agreements in Workers at the Danone Aqua factory in Subang, Danone’s international operations and joint due Indonesia, formed an independent union in diligence processes that can effectively monitor April and received a formal registration that compliance. certificate in May 2018. Danone Indonesia management refused union check off for its Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) members and approached the local community [email protected] to explain that an independent union would The IUF convened a Jacob Douwe Egberts threaten disruption and disharmony in the (JDE)/JAB Holding planning meeting on October community. The IUF Secretariat contacted 8 in Amsterdam, Netherlands hosted by FNV. Danone headquarters management and asked them to contact local management in Indonesia JAB Holding Company, a private “investment” to ensure that Danone Indonesia stops firm, is rapidly becoming more prominent in IUF spreading fear in the community and disrupting sectors – particularly in HRCT, food processing IUF members' lives. and beverages. JDE manufactures well-known coffee brand products such as Jacobs, Tassimo, Moccona, Senseo, L’OR, Douwe Egberts, Kenco, 6 Pilão and Gevalia. Under the JAB Holding In Baddi, India, Mondelēz worker Milkhi Ram umbrella, numerous café nameplates join the was killed on September 21 while operating a company’s coffee empire: Espresso House, moulding machine in the company's plant. His Baresso, Peet’s Coffee, Caribou, Einstein death followed a wave of massive workforce Noah, Krispy Kreme, Pret a Manger and reductions accompanied by a "voluntary Panera. A large merger was also recently separation scheme" initiated by Mondelēz India completed between the company’s Keurig management, which workers were pressured into Green Mountain and the Dr Pepper Snapple accepting. Group. IUF secretariats at regional and international There are two primary ongoing situations at level have begun discussions with Mondelēz Jacob Douwe Egberts: corporate management to determine the underlying causes of this fatal accident. 1. JDE unilaterally terminating the collective bargaining agreement with NGG at the JDE Nestlé Bremen, Germany administrative offices, [email protected] which is a rights issue; [email protected] 2. the announced closure of the Andezeno, Participants from IUF-affiliated unions in Italy JDE facility. Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, The IUF and its JAB Holding/JDE affiliates France, Indonesia, Italy, Nigeria, Tunisia, Russia, agreed to provide mutual support when Switzerland, the UK, the US and Zimbabwe met possible on issues as they arise. for one-and-half-days of discussion around the major issues being faced by members at Nestlé Mondelēz and at Nestlé-Froneri as the company intensifies [email protected] its cost-cutting and restructuring. Trade union representatives from 18 unions, 13 Affiliates shared experiences in their respective countries, and 6 continents met in Brussels on countries and concluded that work had intensified September 5 and 6 to plan union action to and job security was weakened because of the protect their members' futures in Mondelēz. company’s efforts to meet unrealistic and Defending trade union rights, combatting job unsustainable profit margins demanded by destruction and stopping the growth of investors. It was recognized that the pressures precarious work were at the top of the agenda. for short-term profit were common to food and beverage TNCs and the Nestlé experience is There have been two major rights issues at shared by other members in the food and Mondelēz since the IUF’s last TNC report. beverage sector. In Swaziland, local Mondelēz management Participants engaged in group discussions interfered in internal union matters of IUF around the subjects of fighting back locally and affiliate ATUSWA while limiting union access to internationally and supporting each other; the facility and further provided support to a strengthening international union organization in yellow union in an effort to supplant ATUSWA the company; and advancing the main themes of as the collective bargaining representative of IUF work with Nestlé, i.e. trade union rights, Mondelēz workers in Swaziland. Some precarious employment, gender equality, health progress has been made and ATUSWA now & safety. has access to it workers at the plant. Participants expressed the view that a change In Malaysia, Mondelēz management unilaterally was needed in the way we engage with Nestlé. announced the closure of the Johor Baru plant Trade union rights violations, the growth of at the beginning of July 2018 with no prior precarious employment, permanent restructuring, notification or negotiations with the IUF- deteriorating working conditions, attacks on affiliated FIEU. Malaysian IUF affiliate FIEU collective bargaining agreements and on the intervened to demand negotiations. Despite principles of trade union-management relations several meetings, management initially allowed must be denounced and resisted. The IUF has only consultation with no negotiation, effectively been tasked with developing a platform of action. violating collective bargaining rights. The IUF and affiliates pledged solidarity and Following a successful fight for the right to support to the German Food Workers' Union, negotiate change, including protests by NGG, and their campaign for “people before members, and intervention by the IUF, profit” on behalf of their members whose jobs successful negotiations ultimately secured a and livelihoods are currently under attack. Nestlé significantly improved outcome for members in has announced closures, job cuts and attacks on an extremely difficult situation. 7 collective agreements in Germany to squeeze A joint Unilever/IUF/ITF working party has out concessions on wages and benefits. The been working to address serious human rights NGG brought its campaign – and hundreds of issues in the European road transport logistics Nestlé workers – to company headquarters in supply chain of many major food and retail Vevey, in Swizerland, on October 2. The protest companies. The working party, currently the first was also attended by the IUF General established with any major company, next meets Secretary and Latin American Regional on November 16 with the aim of finalizing Secretary as well as representatives from agreement establishing transport guidance for affiliates from Australia, Switzerland and the Unilever’s responsible sourcing policy and its UK. road transport logistics business model. The demonstration by the NGG was timed to coincide with the IUF-Nestlé bi-annual meeting HOTEL CHAINS but the company cancelled the meeting and it [email protected] [email protected] has been re-scheduled for November 19. At Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, where IUF affiliate AccorHotels/AccorInvest FIEU has 500 members, Nestlé will transfer the [email protected] chilled dairy business to Lactalis in 2019 and [email protected] transfer its Milo production to the Chembang The IUF contacted AccorHotels demanding they factory in Malaysia. The Petaling Jaya site remedy rights violations in Myanmar and currently produces Milo, chilled dairy and cold Indonesia, and cease their anti-union activities in sauces. FIEU, with the support of the IUF Asia/ both countries. The IUF triggered the clause in Pacific region, are negotiating with the company the IUF-ACCOR agreement, which states: “any concerning the sale and transfer of production. differences arising from the interpretation or implementation of this agreement will be In connection with Nestlé’s announcement of a examined jointly”. A joint meeting at Regional reduction in the number of NQAC (Nestlé level will take place shortly. Quality Assurance Centre) laboratories in Europe, a special meeting of the Nestlé The AccorHotels European Works Council, made European Works Council was held in Geneva use of the presence of the company CEO to on October 10. Nestlé intends to close the demand concrete measures to address violations laboratory in Weiding, in Germany, and transfer of these union rights in Indonesia and Myanmar, the work to Nestlé laboratories in France and and presented a formal communication to that Poland as well as to external labs. effect. A statement calling on AccorHotels to initiate a joint investigation and to remedy these The NGG delegation presented a detailed violations was also adopted by the EFFAT-IUF overview of the strengths of the Weiding General Assembly for the Tourism Sector. laboratory and made a strong case for the need to maintain the current NQAC network based In 2018, AccorHotels finalized the sale of its on concerns for consumer health and job subsidiary AccorInvest. AccorInvest owns more security. than 800 hotels, mainly in Europe. AccorHotels is now virtually an “asset-less” hotel chain. Unilever [email protected] Contacts with AccorInvest have been established and joint work is proposed on both sexual Unilever has formally recognized both IUF and harassment and hotel housekeepers’ issues. IndustriALL as international trade union organizations representing unionized Unilever Marriott workers internationally. A Joint Memorandum of [email protected] Understanding signed in London by Unilever, [email protected] the IUF and IndustriALL on October 31 On May 2, the IUF held its first Marriott affiliates’ underpins rights for Unilever workers meeting. The meeting determined that global specifically "ensuring that throughout recognition of the IUF by Marriott was necessary Unilever's worldwide operations workers in order for the IUF to support affiliate organizing can freely exercise their internationally and collective bargaining and defend existing recognized rights and in particular their gains. rights to union membership and collective bargaining without fear of retaliation, Recognition of the IUF would also allow the IUF repression or any other form of affiliates to work collectively at international level discrimination." on policies to fight sexual harassment and to improve hotel housekeepers’ working conditions.

8 Participants supported the proposal to develop have failed to meet the union's demands for an a set of “Global Demands on Marriott regarding agreement which would bring a living wage, job sexual harassment” that will be used to engage security and improved protection against sexual Marriott. This will be backed by a campaign with harassment. a specific focus on sexual harassment linked to To track all violations perpetrated by Marriott and the present discussions at the ILO focused on actions taken by affiliates in the campaign, the violence and harassment in the world of work. IUF has launched a specific website The current #MeToo movement clearly adds www.workersofmarriott.org weight to such a campaign. These “Global demands regarding sexual Meliá harassment” were delivered to Marriott [email protected] management during a public event in Geneva Following assurances from Meliá senior on May 29. On June 27, IUF members at management that they remained fully committed Marriott hotels around the world demonstrated to signing an international Sexual Harassment in support of the call for concrete action by Protocol with the IUF, work continues on Marriott to protect workers from the epidemic of reaching a final text. sexual harassment that so often affects hospitality workers’ lives. The company already made clear earlier its willingness to work together with the IUF on a In support of these actions, the IUF General protocol aimed at concretely improving conditions Secretary wrote to the Marriott CEO to demand for hotel housekeepers in the Meliá Group. negotiations on the subject. The company After some delays in 2018 it has been agreed to responded by asserting that it was acting on the resume the work towards such an agreement in issue and saw no value in entering into January 2019. negotiations with the IUF. On September 5, UNITE HERE International President D. Taylor IUF International Hotel wrote the Marriott CEO in support of the IUF's Housekeepers Campaign June proposal for discussions leading to an international agreement on global measures to “Make my workplace safe – Dignity protect workers at Marriott from sexual for Hotel Housekeepers!” harassment on the job. [email protected] [email protected] Meanwhile in Indonesia Agus Sarwatama, the chairperson of the newly formed IUF and FSPM On April 27, the day before International affiliated union at the W Hotel in Bali, was Workers' Memorial Day, the IUF Hong Kong suspended on March 2, in a totally illegitimate affiliate, the Catering and Hotel Industries procedure that had elevated a purely internal Employees' General Union (CHIEGU) and the union matter into a case allegedly harming the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions business. On July 31, his contract expired and (HKCTU) took action in front of the Hilton Conrad was not renewed, leaving workers without their Hong Kong Hotel to commemorate a elected union chairman, their union still housekeeping worker who died at work in unrecognized and no process for negotiating a October 2017 as a result of excessive working collective agreement. The IUF launched an hours. An investigation by the union revealed that urgent email action that you can still join the hotel housekeeper had worked continuously through this link. for 16 days without any leave or rest breaks before he died at work. Surveys by the union On October 10, local UNITE HERE union showed that excessive working hours are leaders in all the US cities involved in the common in all major hotels in Hong Kong, Marriott campaign wrote to Marriott CEO Arne including Accor’s Novotel hotels, Shangri-La, and Sorenson, calling for the reinstatement of the Hilton Conrad Hong Kong. dismissed union chairman at the W Hotel in Bali and full respect for trade union rights. On On the event of International Memorial Day for September 28, the IUF's European regional Dead & Injured Workers, April 28, 2018 the organization IUF-EFFAT wrote to express Global Housekeeping Campaign (GHC) team in concern over rights violations at Marriott Bali. the Philippines held a motorcade through key areas where major hotels are concentrated to UNITE HERE members at Marriott hotels in 8 raise awareness of the effects of room quotas on US cities have started a national strike. A total the health of hotel housekeepers. In its public of 7,700 workers stopped work at 23 hotels in statement the GHC team brought attention to a support of their demand for jobs that are safe range of ergonomic hazards faced by and enough to live on. Lengthy negotiations 9 housekeepers as well as chemical, biological company in the Philippines. The strike is to and physical hazards. protest factory closures and mass lay-offs. After several months of discussions in Philip Morris-Fortune Tobacco Corporation Argentina between the IUF affiliated UTHGRA, (PMFTC), a joint venture between Philip Morris the private sector and the government, a Good International (PMI) and Fortune Tobacco Practices Manual on work in hotels and Corporation, controls 90% of the Philippine restaurants has been approved and published. cigarette market. Fortune Tobacco Corporation is UTHGRA's investigations and work in support owned by the billionaire tycoon Lucio Tan, who is of the IUF Global Housekeepers Campaign laid chairperson of PMFTC. Philip Morris International the foundation for the development of the manages day-to-day operations at PMFTC. manual. This manual contains a series of The IUF has organized international action in recommendations intended to provide tools for support of members at PMFTC. The IUF has workers and employers to promote healthy and contacted PMI corporate headquarters, and a safe jobs. number of IUF affiliates representing Philip In Spain CC.OO Servicios and FeSMCUGT, Morris workers have raised the issue with the the IUF's affiliates organizing workers in the company. The current conflict continues. tourism sector, have won gains around rights, social benefits, and safety and health for hotel housekeepers. On August 30 the tripartite body on employment quality in the hospitality sector, which brings together employers, unions and governments at local and national level, agreed to officially recognize a group of specific TNC UPDATE pathologies affecting hotel housekeepers as occupational diseases. "TNC UPDATE" is a publication exclusively for IUF affiliates and governing MEAT bodies. It is not available to a broader [email protected] audience. HKScan "TNC UPDATE" is available to affiliates [email protected] on the members-only TNC UPDATES In conjunction with Finnish affiliate SEL, the IUF section of the IUF's web site. Password is visited the Estonian union IMTAL to offer ch1213. solidarity support to workers attempting to The publication regularly brings brief consolidate their union following the historic reports of IUF Secretariat activities in strike at the HKScan plant in Rakvere earlier in 2018. A meeting involving representatives of relation to the major TNCs which feature in SEL, Swedish affiliate LIVS, the IUF Secretariat the Secretariat's work. More detail can be and IMTAL was hosted by EAKL – the Estonian obtained from the respective IUF staff Central Federation of Unions. person identified for each company. The IUF and its affiliates pledged support to the The secretariat hopes this publication efforts of IMTAL to enter into good faith helps to inform affiliates of the work in this collective bargaining with HKScan and a specific area undertaken on their behalf decision was made to establish an international and adds to our ability to build union network of HKScan unions to be convened by strength inside these companies. SEL. Comments and suggestions about this TOBACCO from affiliates are welcome. The should be [email protected] sent to [email protected] Philip Morris International [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/IUFglobal The Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Labor Union Twitter: https://twitter.com/IUFglobal (PMFTCLU-NAFLU) supported by Partido YouTube Channel: Manggagawa have been on strike since http://www.youtube.com/user/IUFglobal September 28 at Philip Morris-Fortune Tobacco Corporation (PMFTC), the largest tobacco

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