In the Guatemalan banana industry the short answer is working about 12 hours a week less for over double the pay, and for women workers about one fifth the likelihood of being exposed to sexual harassment at work. Banana Link… Read More ›
Trade Unions
Guatemala – trade unions in the firing line
Noé Ramirez Portela, General Secretary of the Izabal Banana Workers’ Union of Guatemala (SITRABI) visited the UK from 26 to 28 November 2015, during which he met UK trade unionists, government and opposition officials and journalists. He also spoke at… Read More ›
Guatemala: banana workers, union news
Two pieces of news have been shared by Banana Link, regarding union workers and the banana sector in Guatemala. Union to Union solidarity at work The second year of Banana Link’s TUC Aid funded project to support the organising and… Read More ›
End the violence and impunity in Guatemala – Banana Link appeal
Regular readers will be aware of the precarious existence of community leaders in Guatemala. This also applies to trade union leaders. Our friends in Banana Link have recently posted an appeal on their website to end the violence and impunity… Read More ›
Amnesty International Urgent Action on Trades Unionist
Amnesty International have just issued the following urgent action on behalf of Mateo Lopez, a trades unions from the Health Trade Union. He has been very active in denouncing corruption in the health service and has also been involved in… Read More ›
Unionist threatened – urgent action
Amnesty International have just issued an urgent action on behalf of Delfina vicente Yac, a trades unionist at a garment factory in Guatemala City. She is being pressured to leave her job or quit the union, in terms which are… Read More ›
Another leader of FRENA has been murdered
Yet another director of the organisation FRENA (the Front for Resistance in Defence of Natural Resources and the Rights of the People) was murdered in San Marcos this week. According to a communiqué by the group URNG-MAIZ, Octavio Roblero was… Read More ›
SITRAPETEN eviction on NISGUA website
An urgent action has been posted on US organisation, NISGUA’s, website concerning the violent eviction of trade unionists from the central square in Guatemala City last month. For our post on the eviction (which includes links for further information) click… Read More ›
Violent eviction of trade unionists of SITRAPETEN from Parque Central
On the 10th – which happens to be International Human Rights Day – and 11th December members of the trade union SITRAPETÉN were violently evicted by the National Civil Police (PNC) from the makeshift huts in which they had for… Read More ›
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