Honduras: Fyffes escalates against melon workers with retaliatory firings triggering government investigation
Blatantly disregarding national laws and international labor standards safeguarding workers' right to organize, Japanese-owned billion-dollar multinational fruit company Fyffes has terminated all permanent worker-members of the independent farmworker union and IUF affiliate, El Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Agroindustria y Similares (STAS). The action appears to be a direct response to workers’ union involvement and is a clear escalation by the company in a long pattern of union-busting and violations of international labor standards which made Fyffes an emblematic case in a complaint...
Source: iuf.org
