Burcu Ayan's blog
Sun, 19 Feb, 2012
Heineken has already closed 46 breweries and maltings across Europe in the last decade, but there are more cuts to come as the brewer seeks to fuel its drive into Africa and Latin America.
The brewer will seek to achieve a further EUR500m (US$660m) in cost savings over the next three years, with the axe set to fall hardest on recession-hit Europe. "Europe will continue to take the lion's share of the programme," Heineken's CFO, Rene Hooft Graafland, told analysts yesterday (15 February).
Thu, 9 Feb, 2012
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Carlsberg has confirmed that it is likely to cut 100 jobs at its packaging operations in Denmark and replace the jobs with more automated system. The brewer plans to use automated picking systems in its Danish warehouses from 2014. As a result, up to 100 jobs are set to be lost from its 1,700 workforce in Denmark.
In Denmark, Carlsberg plans to concentrate most of its packaging operations in its Fredericia facility and will significantly reduce operations at its Taastrup facility which will then become a consolidation centre
Fri, 27 Jan, 2012
Joint commission consisted of city brunch of Agro-Industrial Workers’ Union (AIWU), St-Petersburg Regional Unions’ Federation, State Labour Inspection and district prosecutor’s office claim that prosecution of Heineken workers who went on a one-day warning strike on 15 December 2011 was illegal. While an act was issued to reverse penalties imposed on 4 strikers, other 25 cases are still to be examined.
Fri, 27 Jan, 2012
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January 24, unions of Carlsberg’s “Baltika” breweries in Russia held demonstrations at factories’ gates to say “No” to the ongoing destruction of permanent jobs and the pressure management puts on union activists. Recently Rostov-on-Don city court was examining a case of Eugeni Bykadorov, member of “NovoProf” union, who was unfairly dismissed from “Baltika-Rostov” plant after he refused to withdraw his complaint about unpaid overtime he submitted along with other workers to State Labour Inspection despite managers’ intimidation.
Wed, 25 Jan, 2012
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Grenada, an island in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, can be heaven for tourists but Grenada Breweries Company turned it into a hell for workers as 125 of them were locked out just before the Christmas on December 19, 2011.
Workers of the Grenada Breweries Ltd (a company owned by ANSA McAL) and their IUF affiliated Grenada Technical & Allied Workers' Union are involved in a struggle for the rights of these locked out workers for the past 42 days.
Read on or you can click here to send a protest to the company: http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=647
Mon, 23 Jan, 2012
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For over three years, workers of Heineken brewery in St-Petersburg and their unions affiliated to the IUF's Agro-Industrial Workers Union of Russia and Union of Food, Tobacco, Services and Allied Workers "Solidarnost" have been seeking negotiations to limit the extent of agency labour on the site and manipulation with the work time calculation which leads to almost no overtime being paid.
Fri, 13 Jan, 2012
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Brewery transnational Carlsberg is attacking trade union rights in Lithuania with the support of the country's legal system, which has declared beer production an "essential service".
On June 10 last year members of the IUF-affiliated Lithuanian Trade Union of Food Producers (LPMS) voted in favour of strike action at the Carlsberg brewery in Lithuania in support of their demand for a decent company-level collective agreement.
Click here to send a message; http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=643
Tue, 20 Dec, 2011
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Workers of the Grenada Breweries Ltd (a company owned by ANSA McAL) and their Union, the Grenada Technical & Allied Workers' Union are currently involved in a just struggle for better conditions of employment.
The Union is of the view that the company has for some time now degraded industrial relations. The Company has consciously refused to corporate with the Union in activities geared at promoting the welfare of the members; it has also founded reasons not to give time off to attend union activities and has done so consistently over the last 5 years. The latest example of the company's attitude towards the union is its refusal to allow a Health Clinic for its workers to take place at its location. This year's Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) week focused on cardiovascular diseases and cancers.
Wed, 14 Dec, 2011
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The right to locally manufacture, sell and distribute Asahi Super Dry beer has been awarded to Carlsberg Brewery Malaysia Bhd.
Laying claim to be the number one Japanese beer worldwide, Asahi Super Dry draught – an extension to the existing bottle and can packaging – will be brewed locally at the Carlsberg Malaysia brewery in Shah Alam.
Mon, 12 Dec, 2011
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SABMiller has said that it will extend the responsibilities of Ari Mervis, its current MD for Asia, to include Foster's Group.
Mervis will become MD of SABMiller Asia-Pacific and will also be CEO of Foster's, from 16 December. Based in Melbourne, he will oversee SABMiller's integration of the Foster's business, which it acquired at the end of November.
