Coordinator of Banana Unions of Honduras and Agroindustrial COSIBAH is projected in the south in coordination with co-workers' union of the Company Azucarera Choluteca S. A SITRAEACHSA, Comrade Olban Danilo Palma union president is the person who coordinates the program ANTORCHA Radio Association was born on April 4, 2007 was broadcast on Radio Paz, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday from 6:30 to 7: 00 pm, Thursdays from 7:00 to 7:30 on 95.5 FM frequency this program is educational, informative and complaint, which has helped to inform the working class to know their rights, and human can the social partners to claim and defend the Ministry of Labor and employers.

We have an office located in Choluteca in the neighborhood 2 blocks from downtown Copimax to accommodate workers with labor problems, provide information which should go to your problem is treated in some cases accompany the employee at the Ministry of work.

Meetings are made with farmer organizations, trade unions and NGOs. Where we have established partnership in order to work conjunyo awareness and motivation for workers to organize.

Several activities have been developed together with COSIBAH sector organizations in the struggle over the wage differential for the maquila sector was agreed by the government in 2006, where workers earn and Twenty (Lps.20.00) less than what earn in the north, we made up by the elimination of child labor as part of the national commissioner of the ILO-IPEC project, with all the labor and peasant organizations in our country.

The Union of Choluteca Sugar Company SA (SITRAEACHSA) on Tuesday June 10 this year he delivered the formal petition for review of salary for executives of the Company through an inspector of the Ministry of Labor.

This revision is based on Clause 15 of the current collective agreement, which states that the company negotiates adjustments to the salaries of its workers for the real increases the cost of living.

According to Danilo Palma Olban Chairman of the Union must consent by the Company to grant their workers through this review to increase their wages because they are aware of the great increase that had suffered in the commodities basket, the electricity, medicines, school supplies and clothing. It congratulated the executives of the Company for this act Azucarera Choluteca demonstrating sensitivity and appreciation to their employees that their efforts contribute to the aggrandizement of the company, and encourage other employers to emulate this example and to the extent that their employees are the results of their companies will be better.

The Institute Oscar Andrés Rodríguez s of the city of Choluteca was founded in 2007 as president of the parent company of Mr Javier Brooks Institute has had no support or the department of Education or the Ministry of Education nationally, and have resorted to this marathon with the goal of raising one million lempiras in order to begin the building with library and laboratory classes students teachers and parents settled in the Valley House to motivate people passing through that place in your car and walk to work with this cause, just as another group of students roamed the streets and avenues of different districts and colonies with the same objective. Mr Brooks also ask Members of the collaboration of the department and the aldermen of the City Hall to employers in the area to contribute to this goal that will take young men and women professionals near future will be those who struggle with their effort to make our home a great nation.

Mr Brooks also thanked all the media covering this event and especially to the Coordinator of Banana Unions of Agroindustrial and Honduras (Cosibah) for their support and solidarity.

  IN THE FIGHT FOR THE ERADICATION OF CHILD LABOR

On June 12 as the day is dedicated in the fight for the eradication of child labor that date is not overlooked by the Coordinator of Banana Unions of Agroindustrial and Honduras (COSIBAH) so that at that date together with the Union of Workers the Company Azucarera Choluteca (SITRAEACHSA) set up a blanket in the house in the valley town of Choluteca, with the aim of sensitizing the general public about this issue, since in this area of the country where farmers use more hand of children.

with the aim of sensitizing the general public about this issue, since in this area of the country where farmers use more labor infantil.Así these same two organizations (COSIBAH, SITRAEACHSA) in your Association will have a Torch forum to discuss this issue and will link with its sibling unionism in ELAIRE that airs on Radio Progreso to sensitize the people of both North and South on an issue that is of such importance at the global level.

These activities are developing as part of the national commissioner of the ILO-IPEC project where all the labor and peasant organizations of our country and making a united fight to go national decline of child labor in our nation.