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                        LETTER OF COMPLAINT THREE SISTERS Gentlemen, Jose Obregon, Cesar Castro Diaz and Henry Murray The Three Sisters property owners (suppliers of Chiquita) According to information provided by the Coordinator of Banana Workers' Unions of Agroindustrial and Honduras (COSIBAH), the Three Sisters farm is constituted in 2005, after the passage of the Storm Gamma on the north coast of Honduras; At the same land and infrastructure Furrow took Finca Agropecuaria (Ownership of Tela Railroad Co., a subsidiary of Chiquita). The report also shows that on-farm furrow status of the workers' was sustainable in the social, economic and labor, since they lived in a stable relationship between the company and the workers where prevailing respect for the rights: Human and partner -labor. The workers were affiliated ace / ace in the SITRASURCO under this organization channeled all of their claims, complaints and concerns that allowed them to strengthen the working relationship with the company. For its part the company achieve its highest rates of productivity and performance that always placed in the top ranks in competitiveness compared with the rest of estates that are Chiquita in Honduras, so it developed programs working environment, occupational health and others that allowed them to ensure that the farms were certified. Today farm in Three Sisters (former farm path) the picture is quite the opposite, where he once was breathing a work environment that harmonizes the relationship worker employer, this evolved into a center where exploitation violate human rights and labor, according to information Cosibah provided by the workers. Ø The workers were not entitled to holidays, Ø A maternity (when they are fired pregnant) Ø They receive low wages Ø At the payment of overtime, Ø A permanent job, (they are hired temporarily) Ø A health Ø A medical attention when they have an accident, Ø When personal protective equipment, Ø They are forced to work extended hours, Ø Do not pay them on the seventh day, when they go to insurance, Ø receive harassment and threats from supervisors, Ø They are dismissed if they claim their labor rights, Ø forced to sign a sheet where waive organized in unions. Due to these conditions the company has failed to be certified These violations also joined his company is not respecting the ILO Conventions and the Convention CHIQUITA, COLSIBA, IUF. Gentlemen, Jose Obregon, Cesar Castro Diaz and Henry Murray. I appeal to their reasoning to take appropriate steps to ensure that any and all employees are fully guaranteed their rights to organize in unions, a fair deal that guarantees them a decent life, to exercise legitimate activities both in law and in practice. We hope that these violations do not continue at Three Sisters Farm. Honestly.

His message will be sent to the following address:

Jose Obregon (jobregon@gmail.com) , Jorge Moya (jmoya@chiquita.com)