Quelle horreur! Labor strife threatens world's Nutella supply

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

PARIS — No more Nutella?! French workers are threatening as much, bringing the world’s biggest Nutella factory to a near-standstill in a showdown over salary negotiations.

Tensions have been mounting at the site in Villers-Ecalles in Normandy, where activists from the Workers’ Force union have been barring trucks from entering or leaving the factory for a week.

The plant produces a staggering 600,000 jars of the chocolate and hazelnut spread every day — a quarter of the world’s output of a product cherished by children and adults alike.

After a six-day standoff, Nutella owner Ferrero on Monday started threatening fines for workers involved in the blockade, according to a company statement. Unions and the company say the blockade has nearly halted production, though it was unclear if — or when — that might create shortages in the global market.

https://www.heraldnet.com/business/quelle-horreur-labor-strife-threatens-worlds-nutella-supply/?utm_source=DAILY+HERALD&utm_campaign=7842d57ef6-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d81d073bb4-7842d57ef6-228635337

[hlthe2b]

1. I already feel guilty about the palm oil...

and its impact on orangutans in Indonesian deforested habitat.

So... I guess I will continue to eschew it, (though I have a real craving for it)

[MFGsunny]

2. Sacre bleu! say it ain't so ..... n/t

[blaze]

3. Chocolate production is pretty nasty...

like child labor nasty.

Link to tweet

"There are no hard figures on the number of children working, but researchers have estimated that at least 16,000 are involved in forced labor by people other than their parents in West Africa’s cocoa-growing regions."

"The Post asked the best-known chocolate companies — Mars, Mondelez, Nestle, Hershey and Godiva — if they had any products they could guarantee are free of child labor.

None could point to a product and make such a guarantee. "