Achievements Include:

Increasing the capacity to organise on the ground, improved legal capacity (directly increasing the number of collective bargaining being achieved) and awareness raising amongst thousands of banana workers.

The formation of new unions in Ecuador and Honduras (the first in Latin America to be led by 2 women).

Facilitation of legal action against multinationals whose continued use of banned pesticides have had a devastating impact on worker’s health.

Enabling Latin American unions to actively participate in trade policy discussions with the British government and the European Commission, and to take a leading role in the Second International Banana Conference, which brought together 250 stakeholders toreverse the Race to the Bottom in the industry.

Establishing dialogue between our union partners and the major British supermarkets whose banana price war has accelerated lowering of wages and standards on Latin American plantations.

The GMB London region is spearheading a fund-raising campaign to support the drive to organize on the Costa Rican banana plantations and finance employment of two organisers and their transport.  This has improved organising work and made stronger campaigns, credibility and presence in more plantations.  SITRAP members in the Acon owned plantations which supply Dole are in a battle to increase membership and are succeeding.

FENACLE has run three topical workshops for over 100 young people and has secured a series of commitments from them as well developed it's broader youth network towards creating a legal structure.  The three workshops were held in Playas in Guayas province (September 2005), in El Pasaje in El Oro (January) and in Babahoyo in Los Rios (February).