Working with partners
GMB delegation with workers on Ecotourismo plantation, Costa Rica, 2008Banana Link works with a range of partners in countries that both consume and export tropical fruits.
Europe
British trade unions, through our Union to Union programme which builds solidarity along tropical fruit supply chains, including notably the GMB, Britain's third biggest union, who support the organising and training of SITRAP members in Costa Rica as part of a cooperation agreement signed with SITRAP. Visit our solidarity section for more information.
Our consortium partners in the EC funded Make Fruit Fair campaign are:
- Peuples Solidaires (France)
- BanaFair (Germany) and
- Nazemi (the Czech Republic).
United States
We work closely with US LEAP - Labour Education in the Americas Project.
Tropical fruit exporting countries
The trade unions organising plantation workers - many of whom we have worked with for more than a decade. Visit our solidarity section for further information about our union partners in Latin America and West Africa.
The Windward Island Banana Farmers Association - WINFA.
Globally
Many of our union partners are members of the International Union of Foodworkers, the global federation of unions representing workers in agriculture and plantations.