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"International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco, and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF)/Danone: Joint Declaration on Trade Union Rights, 1994" [2005] ELECD 267; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 44

Section Title: International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco, and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF)/Danone: Joint Declaration on Trade Union Rights, 1994

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

44. International Union of Food, Agricultural,
Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and
Allied Workers' Associations (IUF)/Danone:
Joint Declaration on Trade Union Rights,
1994

Commentary: Since 1985, Danone's central management and IUF-affiliated unions
have discussed industrial relations at the international level. In 1989, two agreements
were concluded concerning enhanced information disclosure for economic and social
matters and on employment equality for men and women. An agreement on skills
training was also signed during 1992. In 1997, the Danone group (formerly BSN) and
the IUF signed a joint understanding in the event of changes of business activity affect-
ing employment or working conditions. The Joint Declaration on Trade Union Rights
below (available through www.iuf.org) is an illustration of a framework agreement
concluded between a corporation and a trade union and applicable throughout the
corporate structure irrespective of the territorial location of operations. Such
arrangements may not be attributable to governments: Arriba Ltd v Petroleos Mexicanos
[1992] USCA5 1289; 962 F.2d 528 (1992). See also, IUF (1995), Code of Conduct for the Tea Sector, Petit-
Lancy, Switzerland.



BSN and the IUF
(i) recalling the fundamental right of each employee to be represented and defended by
the trade union organization of her/his choice;
(ii) affirming that the counterweight represented by the trade union organizations
contributes to the respect of the needs and aspirations of the workforce by company
executives;
(iii) mutually recognizing the legitimacy of each party and their right to participate in the
social as well as economic spheres, each ...