Workers from around the world will gather to discuss emerging issues in the meatpacking and food processing industries
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) will host meat industry workers from around the world at the Global Meat Conference at the Doubletree Hotel in Omaha on November 1-2.
The conference will be the first U.S.-based gathering of this global meat and food union network. Participants will discuss emerging issues in the meat industry and the impact on workers in the 15 different countries represented by the unions in the IUF.
UFCW International President Joseph Hansen, who is a member of President Obama's Jobs and Competitiveness Council, and UFCW International Vice President and Director of the Food Processing, Packing and Manufacturing Division Mark Lauritsen will be available to speak to the pressabout issues affecting workers in the meat packing and retail industries in Nebraska and across the country on Tuesday, November 1. For more information or to arrange an interview, contact Julie Anderson or Alejandro Navarro.
Event: IUF Global Meat Conference
Date: November 1-2, 2011
Participants: UFCW International President Joseph Hansen; IUF General Secretary Ron Oswald; UFCW International Vice President and Director of the Food Processing, Packing and Manufacturing Division Mark Lauritsen; UFCW Director of Strategic Resources Department Arne Anderson; and Author, Journalist and Director of the Markets, Enterprise and Resiliency Initiative Barry C. Lynn.
Location: Doubletree Hotel, 1616 Dodge Street, Omaha, Neb. 68102.
About the UFCW
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) represents more than 1.3 million workers, primarily in the retail and meatpacking, food processing and poultry industries. The UFCW protects the rights of workers and strengthens America's middle class by fighting for health care reform, immigration reform, living wages, retirement security, safe working conditions and the right to unionize so that working men and women and their families can realize the American Dream. For more information about the UFCW's effort to protect workers' rights and strengthen America's middle class, visit www.ufcw.org.
About the IUF
The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) is an international federation of trade unions representing workers employed in agriculture and plantations; the preparation and manufacture of food and beverages; hotels, restaurants and catering services; and all stages of tobacco processing. The IUF is currently composed of 336 trade unions in 120 countries representing a combined representational membership of over 12 million workers (including a financial membership of 2.7 million). It is based in Geneva, Switzerland.For more information, visit http://cms.iuf.org/.
Contacts:
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)
Julie
Anderson, 202-223-3111, ext. 1255
janderson@ufcw.org
or
Alejandro
Navarro,202-223-3111, ext. 1591
anavarro@ufcw.org
