Editorial

FARM THE TREE SISTERS IS CERTIFIED
WITH HIGH RATES OF LABOR VIOLATIONS
 

The farm three sisters began its operations in 2005, at the same place funciono farm Agriculture Furrow, its thriving plantation was desvastada with the passage of the storm Gamma (2005), also took this natural phenomenon among the turbulent waters union through which workers achieve their dreams and hopes.

Since that fateful date bananas produced in this farm has a flavor that sets it apart from others in the region because it is fertilized by low wages, pressures and extended working hours to which they are subjected workers .

On this farm are not met all the requirements and conditions that have Certifiers in its rules, or is the "ideal model company" would like to be certified with the highest ratings for violating labor rights.

Here as throughout this first production company and profit, social welfare is the last of the long list of "priorities", health is described as a cost and everything to do with the worker / a.

The environment is an issue that is visible when there is a special visit by the auditors for planting and once audited, disappears from the calendar of events and next to the green frog took up enforcement practices agrochemicals without adequate protective equipment, disregard the schedule in order to enter the farm or simply spraying poison in the crews of men working without any control.

This farm supplier Chiquita in Honduras, aims to give the impression that their products are processed by workers unionized and with all the standards required by the market, to carry the same label and certification of the farms themselves from this that if they are unionized , As hundreds of farms in America americas.

The alliance between Chiquita. and The Three Sisters makes them co-responsible for all violations against labor workers and backed by companies Certifiers, as part of a double standard, certify alike, an estate with unionized and collective bargaining, other Producers without unions, collective bargaining and with multiple allegations of labor violations.

We understand that Certifiers are responsible for ensuring that the product reaches the final consumer, having guarantees that is produced by workers who receive fair treatment and that their labour rights are respected, that self-unionization is permitted, that labor stability is guaranteed and that the environment is essentially demanding job in protecting human health.

The mere fact that a company like the Three Sisters with this chain of socio-labor violations, claiming that a signature certifying the certification as cumplidora of its rules; much as this one would be incurring the worst of deception to the final consumer, to human rights bodies and international agencies labour rights advocates, who have always fly the flag of struggle for labor rights and against the worst forms of exploitation.

Arguably, many companies seduced by the fashion of the certification, they decide to implement without being culturally prepared to live together in a fair and dignified work environment. Many of them have not solved minor matters such as the quality of bathing their employees, the wineries of the chemical safety of workers, a system for preventing any danger signs or improving the protective equipment, etc.. Some companies fall under the certification process and maintain an amount of obsolete equipment, inadequate space, customs control and direction of irregular, low wages, denial to a better health system, days 12 hours a day and others that we are tired of denounce.

A consultant or auditor certification of signatures, you can see that many companies are certified as The Three Sisters, the only thing achieved was a "certificate", which becomes an endorsement to continue violating labor rights, regardless of the fate of hundreds of workers , With eyes that look of misery, whose effort has also been paid to the certification, so that this denied a better way of life, within the framework of respect for labour laws.