Banana Initiative

The Dole Food Company in Peru has agreed to a settlement with its subcontracted banana workers.

USLEAP released a full report on its conclusions from a fact-finding mission to Guatemala in July. The report details the status of worker rights under the new government of Alvaro Colom.

Dole remains public enemy number one for the Coordination of Latin American Banana Worker Unions (COLSIBA), the European Banana Action Network (EUROBAN), USLEAP and other campaigners seeking to stop t

On April 23, the AFL-CIO and Guatemalan trade unions filed the first CAFTA worker rights complaint since the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement came into effect in 2006.

The September 23 murder of Marco Tulio Ramirez, a leader of the Del Monte banana union SITRABI in Guatemala, sparked international protests joined by USLEAP and local charges of possible Del Monte com