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The development of Kraft as a global company demonstrates the need for trade union coordination within Kraft at the global and regional levels, comparable to the efforts within Nestlé and Unilever. A company that is coordinated globally has a major advantage over its unions if it is allowed to deal with them exclusively at local and national levels.
About half of Kraft's 31,000 hourly employees in the United States are organized into unions. These include the IUF-affiliated BCTGM, UFCW, RWDSU and PACE, as well as the non-affiliated Teamsters. 70% of Kraft's 40,000 hourly employees outside the US are represented by unions or works councils. Thus over 40,000 Kraft employees are organised by unions, mainly affiliates of the IUF, providing a large potential basis for trade union coordination. There is a European Works Council for Kraft, whose employee chairperson is Bente Loevass of the NNN and trade union coordinator Micha Heilmann of the NGG.
There is also union organisation at Kraft in the Asia/Pacific region (Australia) and in Latin America (Argentina, Peru, Ecuador).
See separate article dated 29-11-01 on developments at Kraft in Latin America.