75,000 people demand fair wages, health protection and trade union rights for plantation workers in Lidl supply chains

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75,000 people demand fair wages, health protection and trade union rights for plantation workers in Lidl supply chains More

75,000 people demand fair wages, health protection and trade union rights for plantation workers in Lidl supply chains

Paul Lievens

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 […]

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Abuses including dismissals in agro-export company TALSA More

Abuses including dismissals in agro-export company TALSA

Paul Lievens

Amalia Antúnez In Montevideo, Perú UNIONS AGRICULTURE With Juan Herrera “The harassment is never ending” Peruvian anti-union blueberries   The agro-industrial company TALSA is located in the north of Peru in the La Libertad region and specialises in blueberry and asparagus production, among other products. On the 8 March, it arbitrarily dismissed all of the SITETSA […]

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International Women’s Day: Reflections from Colombia More

International Women’s Day: Reflections from Colombia

Paul Lievens

Colombia TRADE UNIONS FOR WOMEN International Women’s Day with Adela Torres   “Let’s make the 8th of March a day of demands”. Respect, justice and equity.   Last Sunday, March 6th, the National Union of Workers in Agricultural Industries (Sintrainagro) held a mass meeting of women in the municipality of Apartadó, as part of the celebration of […]

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Noé Ramirez Portela, General Secretary of the Izabal Banana Workers’ Union, Guatemala to speak at Latin America 2015 Conference More

Noé Ramirez Portela, General Secretary of the Izabal Banana Workers’ Union, Guatemala to speak at Latin America 2015 Conference

Paul Lievens

Noé Ramirez Portela, General Secretary of the Izabal Banana Workers’ Union of Guatemala (SITRABI) is visiting the UK in November and will be speaking at the Latin America 2015 Conference in London on 28 November. Noé’s visit is being co-ordinated by Banana Link SITRABI is the oldest private sector union in Guatemala and represents over […]

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