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17th February 2011, 20:07
Demanding back wages is not a crime! - support Moldovan sugar workers
IUF
Uniting food, farm and hotel workers world-wide
Workers at Moldova's Glodeni-Zahar sugar company - formerly the largest in the country - have not been paid their wages and benefits since June 2009. In November 2009 the company filed for bankruptcy and operations ceased, unleashing a battle over 2,500 tons of warehoused sugar with a market value of some USD 2.8 million which the workers rightly view as the only guarantee of their wage and benefit arrears. The bankruptcy administrator has connived to illegally sell the sugar despite the fact that the company remains in bankruptcy proceedings and creditors - including the workers - have not been paid. The workers are guarding the warehouse and have used trucks to prevent it from being looted. Criminal charges have been brought against 5 union leaders, who now face prison terms of 3 to 8 years for attempting to claim their wage and benefit arrears!
Click here to send a message to the Moldovan authorities - the workers must be paid their wages and benefits and all criminal charges against the union leaders must be unconditionally dropped!
http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=556
Nestlé Russia violates trade union rights in sale of Barnaul chocolate factory
On 18 December 2010 Nestlé Russia announced the sale of its Altai confectionary plant, located in Barnaul in Central Russia. The workforce – who are part of the sale – were informed the previous day. Seven hundred workers are scheduled to be handed over to a new employer during the second quarter of 2011 without any guarantees and no prospect of any negotiation with them or their union.
It's becoming a famioliar pattern at Nestlé Russia - operations are sold off to former Nestlé managers, and trade union rights are thrown out with the trash.
Learn more here.
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
To Marian LUPU, President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova
Vladimir FILAT, Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova
Valentina BULIGA, Minister Of Labor, Social Protection And Family
Alexei ROIBU , Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic Of Moldova
Alexandru Tanase, Minister of Justice
Valeriu Zubco, General Prosecutor of the Republic of Moldova
Dear Madam, dear Sir,
I am shocked to learn from the IUF that five union activists from the Glodeni Sugar Plant “Glodeni-Zahar” face prison sentences of between 3 and 8 years for trying to secure wage and benefit arrears owed to the workers. Workers at the plant have not been paid their wages and benefits since June 2009. I urge your government to act to resolve this conflict by ensuring that all wages and benefits owed to the workers are paid without delay. The criminal charges against Vasilii Guleac, Valentina Semeniuc and activists Anatolie Furtuna, Fiodor Svoevolin and Victor Colibaba must be immediately and unconditionally dropped. Defending wages and benefits against theft is not a crime!
Yours sincerely
IUF
Uniting food, farm and hotel workers world-wide
Workers at Moldova's Glodeni-Zahar sugar company - formerly the largest in the country - have not been paid their wages and benefits since June 2009. In November 2009 the company filed for bankruptcy and operations ceased, unleashing a battle over 2,500 tons of warehoused sugar with a market value of some USD 2.8 million which the workers rightly view as the only guarantee of their wage and benefit arrears. The bankruptcy administrator has connived to illegally sell the sugar despite the fact that the company remains in bankruptcy proceedings and creditors - including the workers - have not been paid. The workers are guarding the warehouse and have used trucks to prevent it from being looted. Criminal charges have been brought against 5 union leaders, who now face prison terms of 3 to 8 years for attempting to claim their wage and benefit arrears!
Click here to send a message to the Moldovan authorities - the workers must be paid their wages and benefits and all criminal charges against the union leaders must be unconditionally dropped!
http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=556
Nestlé Russia violates trade union rights in sale of Barnaul chocolate factory
On 18 December 2010 Nestlé Russia announced the sale of its Altai confectionary plant, located in Barnaul in Central Russia. The workforce – who are part of the sale – were informed the previous day. Seven hundred workers are scheduled to be handed over to a new employer during the second quarter of 2011 without any guarantees and no prospect of any negotiation with them or their union.
It's becoming a famioliar pattern at Nestlé Russia - operations are sold off to former Nestlé managers, and trade union rights are thrown out with the trash.
Learn more here.
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
To Marian LUPU, President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova
Vladimir FILAT, Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova
Valentina BULIGA, Minister Of Labor, Social Protection And Family
Alexei ROIBU , Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic Of Moldova
Alexandru Tanase, Minister of Justice
Valeriu Zubco, General Prosecutor of the Republic of Moldova
Dear Madam, dear Sir,
I am shocked to learn from the IUF that five union activists from the Glodeni Sugar Plant “Glodeni-Zahar” face prison sentences of between 3 and 8 years for trying to secure wage and benefit arrears owed to the workers. Workers at the plant have not been paid their wages and benefits since June 2009. I urge your government to act to resolve this conflict by ensuring that all wages and benefits owed to the workers are paid without delay. The criminal charges against Vasilii Guleac, Valentina Semeniuc and activists Anatolie Furtuna, Fiodor Svoevolin and Victor Colibaba must be immediately and unconditionally dropped. Defending wages and benefits against theft is not a crime!
Yours sincerely