Message of TUI in Agriculture, Food, Commerce of WFTU against the Layoffs in the French Multinational DANONE

 

 

Dear Comrades,

The Danone Group, the first french agri-food company, has just announced a new global redundancy plan. To further increase its already high rate of profitability, thelenleaders of this capitalist behemoth wantto lay off more than 2,000 workers worldwide, including 500 in France. Behind these figures are entire families pushed into poverty, rising unemployment, the scourge of hunger that continues. Danone's executives and shareholders bear a heavy responsibility in terms of jobs as well as industrial and agricultural potential.

Already many workers, along with their unions, are fighting Danone's scrappage plan to defend their jobs, factories and production. The management ofcsi and Uita, fully integrated with the strategies of transnationals and especially Danone, are ready to endorse this heist. The co-optation of Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the Csi,to Danone’s Global Supervisory Board, is glaring evidence of the collusion that the group's workers have nothing to expect.

Our International Union rejects these liberal policies and continues to demand, like many trade union, peasant, indigenous and rural organizations around the world, that food and agriculture be extracted from capitalist logics.

Our International Union calls on all affiliated and friendly organisations to resist Danone, to multiply the trade union struggles in every factory, in each country where this transnational is present, based on the demands specific to each of the realities.

The private interest must no longer impose its law in the face of the public interest. Let's defend our jobs, our industries, our agriculture.

 

Recieve, Dear comrades, our fraternal greetings