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Unilever Pushes Casual Tea Workers Deeper into Poverty for Demanding Rights

Unilever Pakistan management has escalated its vicious attack on casual workers at its Lipton/Brooke Bond tea factory in Khanewal, Pakistan, punishing workers who are demanding direct, permanent employment by denying them work and driving them deeper into poverty.

Tell Unilever to stop retaliating and start negotiating an end to disposable jobs and institutionalized poverty!

http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=413

To Mr. Paul Polman, CEO Unilever

Your website claims to recognize "issues" in the disposable jobs regime in the Khanewal Lipton factory which limits direct employment to a mere 22 employees - and claims to be addressing them. It goes on to claim that you are willing to "seek mediation" at the OECD. In fact it is the IUF which approached the OECD. Unilever's response has been to collectively punish workers seeking their rights. While new casual workers are being employed at the same disposable jobs, Unilever management has been systematically denying work to members of the Action Committee, driving them deeper into poverty and debt.

Employment discrimination must stop now! Make the Khanewal casual workers permanent through direct negotiations with the National Federation of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Workers of Pakistan!

Yours sincerely,