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Dole
 In May 2006 Banana Link joined 73 other human rights organisations in sending a letter to the Dole Food company, charging it with failing to respect basic workers rights, including freedom of association, the right to organise and the right to negotiate a contract.

Simultaneously, Banana Link, the IUF and COLSIBA (the Coordination of Latin American Banana Worker's Unions) and three other international organisations released a special report entitled, "Dole, Behind the Smoke Screen" documenting Dole worker rights violations in Latin America.

Banana Link, the GMB and other signers of the letter called on Dole "to make a commitment not only on paper, but also in practice" and said that they would "be evaluating Dole's response against concrete indicators...measured in terms of increased numbers of workers covered by collective bargaining agreements."  The letter follows an earlier letter, sent to Dole on 1 April 2006, by COLSIBA demanding that Dole respect fundamental human rights.

Click here for a copy of the organisational sign-on letter, the signatories and the report.  Also available the press release and appendix.

Email Banana Link to receive hard copies of the "Dole, Behind the Smokescreen".

 

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Valentine's Day Appeal from Religious Leaders
USLeap February 2008

Click here to download a letter from religious leaders in the United States asking that Dole respect the labour rights of workers in the Colombian fresh cut flower industry.

 
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Dole Claims Carbon Neutrality
Reefer Trends, August 2007

US multi-national Dole has reportedly pledged to reduce to zero carbon dioxide emissions from its bananas and pineapples grown in Costa Rica. in collaboration with the Costa Rican ministry of the environment and energy and the Fondo nacional de Financiamiento Forestal, Dole Food’s standard Fruit subsidiary will ensure that its entire supply chain is carbon neutral, from growing the fruit, to packing it, transporting it and distributing it to markets in North America and Europe. Costa Rica plans to become a carbon neutral country by 2021.

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