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Central American trade unions call on governments to reject EU trade agreement |
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20th August 2010, Banana Link
Trade unions in Central America have been clear, since the negotiations first started, that the EU - Central America Association Agreement (AA) should be more than just another free trade agreement. They have analysed the contents of the draft texts agreed by governments in May 2010 and found them seriously flawed, calling on governments and the European Parliament not to ratify the Agreement. Throughout the negotiation process, civil society organisations, including trade unions on both sides of the Atlantic, have expressed disappointment, even anger, that the EU has not taken their views seriously and has ended up with a one-sided and highly trade-focused Agreement.
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Repression of popular protest continues in Honduras |
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 19th August 2010, Banana Link
Hundreds of thousands of Hondurans responded to calls from the three main trade union confederations, the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) and teachers' organisations to protest against the policies of a government which they consider illegitimate. The focus of protests in the capital Tegucigalpa and second city San Pedro Sula is the government's proposal to freeze increases in the minimum wage and to privatise education.
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Eight workers poisoned on Costa Rican pineapple plantation |
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17th August 2010, Banana Link
The trade union SITRAP, through its Department of Occupational Health and the Environment, is putting the national and international spotlight on a case that, in spite of their best efforts, the pineapple company concerned has not been able to keep from the public eye.
The case concerns the poisoning of eight workers – seven women and one man - by a chemical applied in the plantation. They were working to prepare the pineapple seedlings for planting. In all pineapple plantations, the plantlets are soaked in a chemical to avoid the plant being affected by nematodes (soil-borne worms).
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