Banana Worker Justice

After more than twenty days on strike, members of UNTRAFLORES continue to occupy one of the Benilda plantations because the company has not paid all of their August salary or what it owes in healthcare for the workers, leaving many without health services.  The company, owned by one of Colombia’s wealthiest families, is also pressuring its 500 contracted workers to accept partial sever

On the May 6th, 2009, workers from the newly formed union SINTRAFLORES, who are employed by two flower companies, Camino Real and Degaflores, went on strike because their employers had not paid their salaries or benefits.

Colombian flower workers affiliated to the independent union organization UNTRAFLORES won their fourth collective bargaining agreement

As part of the Economic Justice for Flower Workers Campaign, USLEAP kicks off its worker tour "A Mother's Day Story."

Shortly after two major contract victories on Dole flower plantations in Colombia in July, Dole Fresh Flowers announced plans to sell its global flower operations.

Workers at two Dole plantations are celebrating today after signing contracts on the Splendor and La Fragancia plantations last week.

When a small union formed at the Bochica Farms plantation in La Ceja, Antioquia in January of 2007, workers immediately began to receive death threats.

Getting permission to use the restroom at the La Fragancia flower plantation in Colombia “is like winning the lottery,” according to Dora Acero, the Secretary of Education for the union at the

New obstacles have sprung up for workers at Dole ’s Fragancia flower plantation, where workers have been fighting for a contract for two years.