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Article

3 Mar 2010

Author:
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations [IUF]

[PDF] Precarious Work: Undermining Human Rights

The purpose here is to highlight…the increasingly widespread use of indirect, precarious employment relations to weaken trade union organization and bargaining power… It is in this context that precarious work emerges as a fundamental human rights issue demanding a strong response rooted in a comprehensive human rights framework…Nestlé…catalogs a series of ILO Conventions which it claims to respect, while classifying them in terms of their ability to exclude various categories of workers from a collective bargaining relationship…Corporations can…completely evade employer responsibility by 100% outsourcing…The IUF…requests the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights to fully integrate the relationship between precarious work and the effective realization of human rights into his investigations and recommendations as a matter of priority. [also refers to ABI (part of SABMiller), Coca Cola, Unilever]