Workers Slam Dole, the Fruit Company, for Anti-Union Moves By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com April 6, 2010

Workers Slam Dole, the Fruit Company, for Anti-Union Moves


By MARYA SALAMAT
Bulatlat.com April 6, 2010

Workers from Dole Philippines’ union Amado Kadena have been staging weekly coordinated picket protest actions at the Dole Philippines’ main office in Makati City, and at the site of Dole’s “biggest integrated pineapple plantation, cannery and packaging complex in the world,” in Cotabato City in southern Mindanao to demand that the company “stop interfering in union matters and to stop violating its collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with its workers.”

With net revenues of $6.8 billion in 2009, Dole is the world’s largest producer and distributor of high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables, and is the leading producer of organic bananas. Dole markets a growing line of packaged and frozen fruits and is a self-proclaimed industry leader in nutrition education and research. The food company has been doing business in the Philippines for more than 40 years now. Its plantations cover 20,000 hectares of land, mainly in Mindanao..... MORE


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