Banana Link’s current campaigns are outlined in this section. For more information about how to get involved please email Banana Link

Urgent Action: 

Colombia: Workers under fire
January 2010

Workers in Colombia are once again victims of armed violence for trying to exercise their right to join and be represented by a trade union.  Read more...

LATEST NEWS - 7th April 2010: Agreement brings successful end to strike at Palo Alto plantation, Colombia

An agreement has been reached between Palo Alto Gnecco Espinosa Investments and SINTRAINAGRO, the agricultural workers’ union in Colombia, bringing an end to a 67-day strike at a plantation in Ciénaga district, Magdalena.  The Ministry of Social Protection will act as guarantor of the agreement.  Prior to the deal the company had been operating a hard-line policy of refusing to recognise workers’ rights to free association.  The strike had been initiated in response to the illegal and violent dismissal of 185 out of 200 workers back in January when workers decided to join the trade union.

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To join our Urgent Action Network

Please email Banana Link and receive urgent action requests from our partners and campaign postal updates. Nearly 3000 people responded to our last Urgent Action about labour rights in Costa Rica and the company concerned has finally been brought to the table after months of obstinate refusal and legal threats against the union (and Banana Link). The company agreed to reinstate a sacked trade union activist with full back pay, to give the union unimpeded access to plantations where it has members, to "instruct its staff and supervisers not to undertake actions which could be regarded as an infringement of the trade union's freedom to operate in the company's plantations."

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