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13 Sep 2017

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BananaLink (UK)

Continued discrimination and labour rights abuses at Anexco

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The Costa Rican trade union SINTRAPEM (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores/as del Sector Privado Empresarial) and union co-ordinating body COSIBACR report that, despite positive developments in our online campaign, the Fyffes owned Anexco continues to abuse labour rights and discriminate against trade union members on its plantation…We should begin by saying that Fyffes has not been keeping to its word, and we have included just some examples of this: Workers are transported in wagons in poor condition which are overloaded with more than 100 people…Agrochemicals are used in areas where the workers are working, including where there are containers which they use for water…Workers are forced to work in conditions which do not comply with Costa Rican law…The union leaders are prohibited from visiting the workers in their place of work…Fyffes has welcomed visits from ETI advisors…