Faced with the possibility of losing the highly lucrative labour supply
contracts that have underpinned the disposable jobs regime at Unilever
Pakistan’s Lipton tea factory for two decades, contractors are colluding
with factory management to instigate violent attacks on the workers
campaigning for the right to direct, permanent jobs.

Unilever management, in collusion with the contractors, is desperately
fighting to maintain a lucrative system based on discrimination and poverty
by provoking and discrediting the Action Committee to pre-empt change
through negotiation

The IUF holds Unilever directly accountable for violence at the Lipton tea
factory in Khanewal.

For more information, and to send a message to Unilever demanding an
immediate halt to these attacks, go to

http://www.iuf.org/den6168

Ron Oswald
General Secretary, IUF
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering,
Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF)