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How To Get Involved

May our practical solidarity be that which identifies us, in unity with the most noble values of the quest for a better life for the working men and women for whom we exist.       
Gilberth Bermudez Umana, General Secretary of Costa Rican trade union, SITRAP

How You And Your Union Can Get Involved:

  • GMB sponsored football stripsRequest input from Banana Link at union events or activities (including Latin American speakers)
  • Join our Banana Action mailing list to receive requests for urgent action
  • Subscribe to and distribute the Union to Union bulletin
  • Submit a motion at a conference (draft motions available from Banana Link)
  • Raise awareness at meetings or in workshops, and amongst colleagues, family and friends, using Banana Link resources
  • Respond to funding appeals. Download our latest appeal to help fund a school in a banana producing region of Ecuador. The project aims to build a school that will provide a complete education for children from the ages of 3 to 12 years old within Las Magaritas and surrounding communities.
  • If you are a young member email Banana Link to join our Young Member Urgent Action Network to recieve updates and information on events, projects, fundraising and other ways to get involved in young member solidarity. Download our new young member leaflet.
  • Please email info@bananalink.org.uk to further information on any of the activities listed above - and many more!!

 

Read the latest issue of our Union to Union bulletin 'First New Collective Agreement in Over 20 Years.'

Read the Fenacle 'Youth Funding Appeal.'

Click here to read the Young Member Leaflet.

 

 
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