In the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the company recognizes the IUF as the internationally representative body of unionized workers within Arla Foods. It builds on the earlier agreement with Arla on zero tolerance of sexual harassment.

• The company employs globally around 20,000 people and has a portfolio of 24 brands, including top sellers like Dano, Lurpak Puck and Yoggi.
• The MoU, which guarantees a worksite visit every year as part of one of the regular biannual meetings, will also ensure that the IUF can raise focus on sustainable employment, occupational safety and health, forced labour, sexual harassment and gender equality and tackling the climate crisis.
• It commits Arla “to promote and protect human rights in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, its obligations under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct and the European Union Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence.”
• It lays down the process for the engagement including “to continue the meetings between senior Arla Foods labour relations management and representatives of the IUF and its affiliates to maintain a constructive ongoing dialogue on relevant labour topics including issues related to human rights within Arla Foods operations, its business relationships and throughout the company supply chain.”

Click HERE to read the text of the MoU.

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• To mark IDAHOBIT, the Council of Global Unions LGBTI Committee has issued a statement reiterating that “LGBTI-phobia has never been, is not, and never will be a trade union value”
• While recognising that the rights backlash, the statement also reminds us “to celebrate the power of our trade unions to resist anti-LGBTI attacks, support LGBTI workers and transform the movement”
• Why May 17? IDAHOBIT is the anniversary of May 17, 1990, when the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from the Classification of Diseases. The first IDAHOBIT was celebrated in 2005, known then as IDAHO. It has since grown in strength and scope and is now celebrated in around 155 countries
• The International Lesbian and Gay Association (the IUF is an associate member) is marking IDAHOBIT under the slogan The power of communities: loud, bold, and unapologetically ours. Its statement declares “In a world increasingly threatened by the rise of authoritarianism, fascist ideologies, and extremist forces seeking to erase our existence, we reaffirm that we are here, and our presence is not negotiable”

Read the full CGU LGBTI IDAHOBIT statement here (available in English, French and Spanish).

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