“We won’t tolerated more violence” Sintraingro organized a demonstration day rejecting all types of violence against women. The General Secretary of the National Union of Workers in Agricultural Industries (SINTRAINAGRO), Adela Torres, spoke to La Rel about the action they hold on the municipality of Apartadó, as part of the International Day for the Elimination […]
Read More →Banana Link, as part of the Make Fruit Fair! campaign recently took a group of journalists from different European countries to visit Fairtrade certified banana and pineapple plantations in Ghana to showcase good practice. We reproduce below an article by one of those journalists, Joanna Blythman, published in The Grocer magazine. Seated at her monitor, […]
Read More →Pesticides, unfair salaries, exploitation: plantation workers in Ecuador and Costa Rica are grafting in order to produce fresh bananas and pineapples for our supermarket shelves. In our pan-European Lidl campaign, more than 75,000 people demand fair wages, health protection and trade union rights for plantation workers – resulting in first achievements: Two Lidl suppliers are […]
Read More →Labourers in deprived region complain of poor conditions and say multinational has blocked efforts to form a trade union, allegations denied by Fyffes Article reproduced from The Guardian Photo: Melon plantation workers with their union flag in Choluteca. Photograph: Jonathan Watts for the Guardian Thousands of miles from the supermarkets in the west that they […]
Read More →Friday 7 October Labour Ministry and Ghana Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) Rather than visiting plantations, today we had meetings in Accra: Chief Labour Officer On World Decent Work Day, our meeting with Chief Labour Officer, Eugene Korletey, gave us an opportunity to hear from the Government of Ghana how they seek to ensure workers have […]
Read More →Banana Link, as members of the Europe-wide Make Fruit Fair! Campaign, have published a report evaluating Rainforest Alliance (RA) certification in the light of recent moves by discount supermarkets like Aldi and Lidl to source tropical fruit from RA certified suppliers. The report – Rainforest Alliance and the Discount Supermarkets: Low Prices and Easy Standards? – […]
Read More →Costa Rica’s high court has once again denied the right of local governments to declare a moratorium on pineapple production within their jurisdictions, this time in the northern border municipality of Los Chiles. Decrying contaminated water and exploitation of migrant labor, a coalition of environmental groups and politicians recently came together to successfully lobby the […]
Read More →On 15th August, a framework agreement on trade union rights and sectoral dialogue was signed by seven banana producers’ associations and the main trade union in the sector, SITAG. This comes after several years of conflict between some of the associations and the union, and is the result of a long process mediated by COLSIBA, […]
Read More →In July, the local authority of the Los Chiles district in Northern Costa Rica, voted a five-year moratorium on new pineapple farms. During the five-year period the council will conduct studies on the impact of monoculture pineapple production on the district’s water resources, as well as on local biological diversity and on social development. The […]
Read More →“Now I am bold. I can talk to anybody. I can express myself anywhere just because I know my rights. I know because I’ve been trained so I know more. I will quote you from the Labour Code and from the Collective Agreement. Now I am bold.” Anna, Cameroon Between 2013 and 2016, Banana […]
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