This video says about itself:
Banana Industry- Exploitation of Workers in Latin America
8 March 2014
A video describing this modern slavery in the banana industry in places such as Ecuador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Saturday 10th December 2016
Banana firm boss attacked by GMB
HONDURAS: British trade union GMB slammed banana giant Fyffes boss David McCann after he said the firm was set to trouser £73 million while sacking 3,000 workers — mostly poor women.
Executive chairman Mr McCann will enjoy the windfall as part of a deal that will see the London-listed company sold to Japanese giant the Sumitomo Corporation.
GMB international officer Bert Schouwenburg said some 3,000 Honduran workers and their families “face starvation” after the firm sacked them for joining a union.
time to start throwing them at supermarket managers until they stop trading with them
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Wednesday 25th January 2017
posted by Morning Star in World
FRUIT giant Fyffes is systematically violating workers’ rights in Central America, international food workers’ union federation IUF charged yesterday.
The transnational is the biggest importer of bananas to Europe and among the largest global suppliers of pineapples and winter season melons.
But workers in Fyffes’ subsidiaries — Anexco in Costa Rica and Suragroh in Honduras — have reported serious and systematic violations of basic labour rights, including freedom of association, the IUF said yesterday.
Reported abuses include threats, harassment and sacking of union members, blocking collective bargaining processes, failure to pay minimum wages and social insurance, exposing workers to hazardous agrochemicals and sacking pregnant workers.
The IUF said it had tried for months to engage Fyffes on the behaviour of its companies — without success.
The union joined an international solidarity mission to Honduras on Monday to meet sacked workers.
It joined calls for Fyffes to guarantee workers’ rights as it moves ahead with its takeover by Japan’s Sumitomo.
Fyffes has previously been fined by Honduran authorities for wage violations, but now claims to be obeying the law.
But the mission will hear evidence the firm is exploiting the country’s “repressive environment” following the 2009 US-backed coup against president Manuel Zelaya.
The IUF said Fyffes had exploited loopholes in Honduran law to deregister the union on the grounds that its elected officers are temporary workers — in an industry characterised by insecure labour.
“Fyffes’ legal challenge to the union’s status violates the basic right of workers to elect their own trade union leaders,” the IUF said.
http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-3af5-Honduras-Fruit-giant-Fyffes-violating-workers-rights,-claims-IUF#.WIkoBvKbIdU
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