Pakistan hotel workers end 25-day sit-in, hunger strike/global dairy workers' conference/more

[Omaha Steve]

Pearl Continental Workers End Sit-in, Hunger Strike as Crisis Forces
Management Response

Two hundred union members occupying the basement of the Pearl
Continental Karachi Hotel ended their 25-day sit-in on Saturday night,
March 20 when a direct representative of the hotel's owner directly
intervened in the conflict for the first time ever in the more than
8-year history of the conflict. Pressure had escalated with the March
19 declaration of an indefinite hunger strike by two union members.

http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/295

IUF Global Dairy Conference Builds Global Solidarity

The IUF Global Dairy Conference held in Buenos Aires and Sunchales,
Argentina March 9-12 brought together 120 union representatives from
22 countries to map a united trade union approach and action in
response to the common problems facing dairy workers globally.
Everywhere, dairy workers confront the multiple impacts of
accelerating horizontal, vertical and retail concentration leading to
mounting pressure along the entire production chain for workers as
well as small producers and family farmers, attacks on working
conditions and union organization through outsourcing, casualization
and other forms of precarious work and environmental degradation and
climate change eroding the sustainability of the sector. Hosted by the
Argentina Dairy Workers Union (ATILRA), the conference was not only
the largest-ever gathering of dairy workers' unions internationally,
but also unique in involving as well representatives of government,
industry and small producers.

http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/294

IUF Tells UN Precarious Work is Undermining Human Rights!

The IUF has made an official submission to the United Nations'
Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, Professor John
Ruggie, drawing attention to the many ways in which precarious
employment is being systematically used to undermine trade union
organization and bargaining power.

http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/297

Stop Nespressure!

http://www.iuf.org/nespressure/en/

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: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

web-site: www.iuf.org