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 […]
Read More →Ecuador’s Ministry of Agriculture has established a marketing arm for small farmer produced bananas which now exports 70 000 boxes of fruit per week. Growers are paid the official minimum price and receive payments much more quickly than with most conventional exporters. The government’s Banana Trade Unit is also purchasing bananas from small farmers in […]
Read More →The Ananas Export Company (ANEXCO) of Costa Rica produces pineapples for parent company Fyffes. According to trade union SINTRAPEM (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores/as del Sector Privado Empresarial) its members (pictured bottom right) suffer anti-union harassment, persecution, unfair labour practices and discrimination. This despite an agreement brokered by the Ministry of Labour between SINTRAPEM, the […]
Read More →In 8 years the Ecuadorian government has reached a goal that no other government in the world has even attempted.
Read More →After years of relatively slow growth, German French and Dutch markets for Fairtrade-labelled bananas have grown fast in the last year or two, contributing to an almost 10% increase in worldwide sales in 2014.
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