Flower Worker Rights

Report Released Exposing Poor Working Conditions on Flower Plantations

February 2007: Worker rights groups today released Valentine's Day Report: Worker Justice and Basic Rights on Flower Plantations in Colombia and Ecuador, finding that flower workers in the region earn poverty-level wages, labor long hours, and suffer significant health problems due to over-exposure to harmful pesticides.

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.

"People of faith in the US are increasingly convinced that our companies should be expected to uphold moral standards with workers in operations abroad," according to