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The following list is a sidebar of the article below this one. From The Independent:
ADM (Archer Daniels Midland)
US-based corporation operating in 75 countries. Runs 265 processing plants converting corn, wheat and cocoa into food and animal feed and for energy.
Bunge
Founded in the Netherlands in 1818, now with its headquarters in New York state. Employs 35,000 people in 40 countries, processing oilseeds, wheat, corn and sugar cane.
Cargill
Based in the United States, a 145-year-old company employing 142,000 people in 65 countries. Distributes grain and oilseeds.
Glencore International
Anglo-Swiss multinational has about one-tenth of the grain market. Also distributes oilseeds and sugar.
Louis Dreyfus
French company founded in 1851, now operates in more than 50 countries. Transports 70m tons of food a year.
Mainstream boy band takes on Big Grain: As part of the campaign to end hunger, popular British band One Direction says that “big corporations [named by the campaign as Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill, Glencore and Louis Dreyfus] avoid paying millions in taxes to Africa every day,” and that “if we stop this, all of Africa could have enough food today.”
Hundreds of millions of people face starvation because five multinational companies control 90 per cent of the world’s grain trade, leading charities were protesting last night as they launched a campaign to reduce levels of hunger in developing countries.
The coalition Enough Food for Everyone IF called for fresh action to crack down on tax avoidance by global corporations, claiming that the lives of 230 young children could be saved every day if firms paid their proper dues in the nations where they operated.
It says five multinationals – ADM, Bunge, Cargill, Glencore and Louis Dreyfus – control all but ten per cent of the world’s grain supplies.
The campaign’s chair, Max Lawson, Oxfam’s head of policy, said: “It is nothing short of a scandal that rich countries’ failure to crack down on tax havens...
The average wage of Port of Tacoma security officers will reach $83,824 yearly at the end of a new four-year contract approved by the Port of Tacoma commission Thursday.
The security officers, who are represented by the Longshore Union, received an average wage increase of 3.8 percent during their prior, four-year contract. Union members ratified that new contract in December.
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International Transport Workers’ Federation news release:
ITF-affiliated unions around the world are showing support for their colleagues in the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) in what could be a major labour showdown in the Pacific Northwest of the USA.
Multinational grain companies who are currently making record profits have reportedly hired replacement non-union workers to take over work currently being done by ILWU members in case of a lockout in the Ports of Seattle, Tacoma, and Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
“We don’t like employers who pretend to be interested in negotiation but reach for union busting strategies instead. That behaviour has been noticed, and here comes the warning: our friends in the ILWU can be sure of worldwide support against that type of behaviour.” — ITF president and chair of the ITF dockers’ section, Paddy Crumlin.Solidarity with their docker colleagues was nicely shown this week, when ITF US West Coast coordinator Jeff Engels boarded the vessel Ramada Queen at United Grain in Vancouver, and found that the captain and crew were well aware of the ILWU’s labour dispute, and that they expressed...
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