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 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.
On 14th January, armed gunmen entered the Palo Alto plantation, Ciénaga
district, Magdelena. They had a list of names in their hands and
demanded to know the whereabouts of two specific workers. They then
shouted, "Get out of here because we have come to kill you – no hiding"
and opened fire, wounding one worker. 185 workers were then forced at
gunpoint to leave their workplace. Their union, SINTRAINAGRO,
condemned the violence and called for solidarity action - and their
global union federation, the IUF, has now launched a major online campaign. Please take a moment to show your support.
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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