Welcome
The corporation Nestlé has made itself comfortable
in the countries neoliberal situation of the 90s.
It employs workers from temporary employment agencies
and uses flexible working contracts which result
in deregulation of the contract of labour.
The company takes no responsibility for the workers.
A vast part of the production is done by temporary workers.
An organisation of labour was installed,
which enslaves the workers. 12
The working hours were maximised.
And union agreements were broken.
E.g. the workers can not use the minimla pause.
Productivity rises and at the same time the wages sink.
The minimum wage was adjusted to the prices of staple foods
So the physicla survival of the workers is ensured.
But not more.
The situation is even more drastic for temporary workers.
The have an average monthly wage of $ 263.
They work without any social protection.
In the start of the 90s there were no temps in the plants.
Today nearly 900 temps work for Nestlé.
The numbers rise each year.
On management level $ 7.500 are payed monthly.
The best payed worker gets $ 645.
But that is nothing.
Members of the board in Colombia get up to $ 35.000 a year,
that is 133 times more than the temp workers.
A singele member of the board earns $ 420.000 a year.
The working time was extremly high in 1314:
The workers work more than 10 hours a day
withour recieving the agreed benefits
or being payed for the overtime hours.
They have no right to organise themselfs.