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Article

2 Jul 2012

Author:
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations

Tell Unilever human rights are not a matter of taste! [India]

Two years after signing an agreement with the IUF [Intl. Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations]...Unilever is on the verge of committing itself to 4 more years of violating the basic rights of a group of Indian workers…The agreement signed...in July 2010 committed Unilever to restoring to the workers in its factory in Doom Dooma, Assam (India) their right to freely choose the union they wished to adhere to and which would represent them for collective bargaining purposes…The last two years, however, have seen only evasions, provocations and management lies. Workers…don't believe Unilever is responsible for the arson attack, but…do hold it accountable for continued violations of basic rights which have allowed a volatile situation to fester.