Stop supermarkets abusing their buyer power!
Supermarkets are the most powerful actors along tropical fruit supply chains. They can make enormous profits by abusing this power and paying unsustainably low prices to their fruit suppliers. This results in many plantation workers living in poverty. Sign our petition now to call for the regulation of buyer power.
Union leader unfairly dismissed
On Friday 9 December 2011 Lester Gustavo Freire Burgos - after thirteen years of employment - was fired and removed from his workplace, the Los Alamos plantation, by security agents. Only a few weeks previously he had become Secretary General of the newly formed union at Los Alamos. Take action to end the persistent violation of union rights by multinational fruit company Noboa.
Women workers exploited
Women precariously employed in the Honduran melon industry are paid such low wages that malnutrition affects one in three people in the region and receive so little protective clothing or proper training that three out of four workers have been poisioned, suffered a machine-related accident or developed serious health problems as a result of working conditions.
Follow us on
This website has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this website are the sole responsibility of Banana Link, Peuples Solidaires, BanaFair and NaZemi and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union.