Friday, October 2, 2009

Kraft!

There is a pretty heated debate going on right now in buenos aires protesting the Kraft company

i stumbled upon a huge protest accidentally on monday evening and since been very interested in what is going on. You should read the article but here is how i see it:
July: high levels of swine flu invading argentina, very contagious disease. Kraft employees do not have enough hygienic supplies (soap, paper towels, etc.), employees ask for more supples. Kraft says no. Employees protest, they do a sit-in i think and effectively shut down the factory. About 150 employees get fired.
August: factory still closed cause of protesting but Kraft will not re-hire the employees they have fired
September: Monday was supposed to be the day that kraft reopens their factory, HUGE protest that I accidently ran into. At this point the protesters are no longer just former employees, now they are political groups also, socialists, the workers party, etc...
Yesterday they were supposed to decide about whether or not they were going to re-hire the former employees but i cannot find any news on it today

read about it here:

pretty interesting stuff

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