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The story of the Ecuadorean workers' strikes
July 2001: "Are there any journalists from Ecuador reading this, then I will be happy if you will contact me. For some weeks the workers on the banana-plantation called la Hacienda Italia have been on strike, because the company has thrown their shop steward out. His name is Fidel Alvarado. He is the Secretario General del Comité de Empresa. La Hacienda Italia is owned by Frioport S.A. - a company owned by Tvind. And the boss at la Hacienda Italia and Frioport S.A. is a member of the Teachers Group, Ole Toft Andersen. The workers on la Hacienda Rio Culebra went on strike in solidarity with them. Also la Hacienda Rio Culebra is a Tvind-owned plantation - owned by the Tvind-company Ecpomartes S.A. By the workers at Rio Culebra have now stopped their solidarity-strike. Some of the trade unions have - as far as I have learned - formally complained to the government about the working conditions and anti-trade union attitude on the plantations owned by the Danish citizens. I hope some Ecuadorian journalists can give me more information about the strike and the Tvind-plantations in Guayquil.
Sept 2002: Strike against Tvind in Ecuador has stopped
230 workers on the TG-owned banana plantation Rio Culebra in Ecuador went on strike in the early summer. Now they are back in work because of the TG-managers threat of sacking them all. Some of the shop stewards has not been allowed to return to work. The strike was a protest because the manager did not pay the workers their salaries. And unlawfully the manager had not paid the health insurance for the workers. The Danish trade union, SID (General Workers Union) supports the banana workers union in Ecuador, FENACLE. And in a meeting with SID the TG-boss, Soren Sorensen (manager of all the TG-banana plantations in Belize) promised to better the conditions for the workers on the Rio Culebra-plantation in Ecuador. Since then nothing has happened. According to SID the workers got their salaries in the form of rubber cheques. And the manager, Danish TG-member Bjarne Hjorth, still has not paid the health insurance. SID found out when a worker on the plantation was bited by a snake. His comrades took him to the hospital - but he was thrown out because there was not paid for him by the plantation. The TG has at least two more banana-plantations in Ecuador.
Sept 2002 - workers sacked
Monday morning (Sept 2nd) the 230 workers on the Rio Culebra-banana plantation was met by armed guards when the were coming to work. The TG-manager Bjarne Hjorth sacked all the workers. Many of the workers live on the plantation. So not
only don't they have a job anymore - don't have a place to live either.
Dec 2002 - After a long strike last summer 90 workers has been sacked from the Tvind-owned banana plantation Rio Culebra in Ecuador. The 90 workers and their families is now totally without any income. Tvind has offered them a small compensation - a few hundred dollars. The workers have refused. According to the law the compensations offered by Tvind is all too small. For instance the shop steward Limber Alvarez, who have been working on the plantation for 14 years, should have had 7.500 dollars in compensation - he was only offered 200 dollars. The Tvind-owned plantation have still not
payed the social security for the workers - a total amount of 140.000 dollars. Tvind has just sold half of the 700 hectares belonging to Rio Culebra. According to local sources the are in a proces of selling the rest also. Another Tvind-plantation in Ecuador, Santa Rita, has been sold recently. 70 workers got sacked - without any compensation.
Frede Jakobson
TVIND NOW FACES HUMAN RIGHTS TRIAL
8th March 2003: Mogens Amdi Petersen and the other members of Tvind's management will now be accused at the Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg for violation of human rights.
CEOST, the federation of free trade unions in Ecuador, wants to bring the Tvind management to the Court for Human Rights because of infringements on trade union leaders at one of Tvind banana plantations in Ecuador. Simultaneously, the whole banana sector in Ecuador will be accused for violation of the right to organize (or: to unite).
The trade union members were in Denmark at the opening of Amdi Petersen's trial to attract attention to an amount of $600.000 which Tvind allegedly owes to 100 plantation workers who were fired last year after a strike.
After having tried to get the alleged Tvind-leader Amdi Petersen to talk in front of the court building in Århus, the Ecuadorians appeared later in front of Tvind's headquarters in Grindsted, backed by 15 to 20 persons from the Danish trade union Sid.
(Source: Danish press)
Tvind 'is leaving Ecuador'
7th March 2003: Tvind is leaving Ecuador. Local workers union representative says that Tvind has sold the Rio Culebra to a local sugar farmer. The Santa Rita plantation was sold October last year and the third Tvind farm, La Italia, is also up for sale.2003, Mar. 7. Source: SID/Fagbladet and Jes Fabricius Møller.
Strike among banana workers leads to Tvind workers sacked and homeless
In Guayquil, a city in Ecaudor, according to Danish press reports (1996), Tvind has a 'luxurious administrative building' where more than 50 staff work on three floors running Tvind's secret Latin American commercial empire.
In 1996, there were said to be eight farms in Ecuador alone, employing 2,000 workers.
Conditions are harsh on the Tvind commercial plantations in Ecuador, and none of the Tvind-educated Teachers Group managers, Soeren Soerensen, Ole Toft Anderson or Bjarne Hjorth does anything to improve them. In 2001 a series of strikes started on the banana plantations, which led to hundreds of wrokers being sacked with scant compensation. Many are now jobless and homeless.
The story of the Ecuadorean workers' strikes 
go
July 2001: "Are there any journalists from Ecuador reading this, then I will be happy if you will contact me. For some weeks the workers on the banana-plantation called la Hacienda Italia have been on strike, because the company has thrown their shop steward out. His name is Fidel Alvarado. He is the Secretario General del Comité de Empresa. La Hacienda Italia is owned by Frioport S.A. - a company owned by Tvind. And the boss at la Hacienda Italia and Frioport S.A. is a member of the Teachers Group, Ole Toft Andersen. The workers on la Hacienda Rio Culebra went on strike in solidarity with them. Also la Hacienda Rio Culebra is a Tvind-owned plantation - owned by the Tvind-company Ecpomartes S.A. By the workers at Rio Culebra have now stopped their solidarity-strike. Some of the trade unions have - as far as I have learned - formally complained to the government about the working conditions and anti-trade union attitude on the plantations owned by the Danish citizens. I hope some Ecuadorian journalists can give me more information about the strike and the Tvind-plantations in Guayquil.
Sept 2002: Strike against Tvind in Ecuador has stopped
230 workers on the TG-owned banana plantation Rio Culebra in Ecuador went on strike in the early summer. Now they are back in work because of the TG-managers threat of sacking them all. Some of the shop stewards has not been allowed to return to work. The strike was a protest because the manager did not pay the workers their salaries. And unlawfully the manager had not paid the health insurance for the workers. The Danish trade union, SID (General Workers Union) supports the banana workers union in Ecuador, FENACLE. And in a meeting with SID the TG-boss, Soren Sorensen (manager of all the TG-banana plantations in Belize) promised to better the conditions for the workers on the Rio Culebra-plantation in Ecuador. Since then nothing has happened. According to SID the workers got their salaries in the form of rubber cheques. And the manager, Danish TG-member Bjarne Hjorth, still has not paid the health insurance. SID found out when a worker on the plantation was bited by a snake. His comrades took him to the hospital - but he was thrown out because there was not paid for him by the plantation. The TG has at least two more banana-plantations in Ecuador.
Sept 2002 - workers sacked
Monday morning (Sept 2nd) the 230 workers on the Rio Culebra-banana plantation was met by armed guards when the were coming to work. The TG-manager Bjarne Hjorth sacked all the workers. Many of the workers live on the plantation. So not
only don't they have a job anymore - don't have a place to live either.
Dec 2002 - After a long strike last summer 90 workers has been sacked from the Tvind-owned banana plantation Rio Culebra in Ecuador. The 90 workers and their families is now totally without any income. Tvind has offered them a small compensation - a few hundred dollars. The workers have refused. According to the law the compensations offered by Tvind is all too small. For instance the shop steward Limber Alvarez, who have been working on the plantation for 14 years, should have had 7.500 dollars in compensation - he was only offered 200 dollars. The Tvind-owned plantation have still not
payed the social security for the workers - a total amount of 140.000 dollars. Tvind has just sold half of the 700 hectares belonging to Rio Culebra. According to local sources the are in a proces of selling the rest also. Another Tvind-plantation in Ecuador, Santa Rita, has been sold recently. 70 workers got sacked - without any compensation.
Frede Jakobson
TVIND NOW FACES HUMAN RIGHTS TRIAL
8th March 2003: Mogens Amdi Petersen and the other members of Tvind's management will now be accused at the Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg for violation of human rights.
CEOST, the federation of free trade unions in Ecuador, wants to bring the Tvind management to the Court for Human Rights because of infringements on trade union leaders at one of Tvind banana plantations in Ecuador. Simultaneously, the whole banana sector in Ecuador will be accused for violation of the right to organize (or: to unite).
The trade union members were in Denmark at the opening of Amdi Petersen's trial to attract attention to an amount of $600.000 which Tvind allegedly owes to 100 plantation workers who were fired last year after a strike.
After having tried to get the alleged Tvind-leader Amdi Petersen to talk in front of the court building in Århus, the Ecuadorians appeared later in front of Tvind's headquarters in Grindsted, backed by 15 to 20 persons from the Danish trade union Sid.
(Source: Danish press)
Tvind 'is leaving Ecuador'
7th March 2003: Tvind is leaving Ecuador. Local workers union representative says that Tvind has sold the Rio Culebra to a local sugar farmer. The Santa Rita plantation was sold October last year and the third Tvind farm, La Italia, is also up for sale.2003, Mar. 7. Source: SID/Fagbladet and Jes Fabricius Møller.
Strike among banana workers leads to Tvind workers sacked and homeless
In Guayquil, a city in Ecaudor, according to Danish press reports (1996), Tvind has a 'luxurious administrative building' where more than 50 staff work on three floors running Tvind's secret Latin American commercial empire.
In 1996, there were said to be eight farms in Ecuador alone, employing 2,000 workers.
Conditions are harsh on the Tvind commercial plantations in Ecuador, and none of the Tvind-educated Teachers Group managers, Soeren Soerensen, Ole Toft Anderson or Bjarne Hjorth does anything to improve them. In 2001 a series of strikes started on the banana plantations, which led to hundreds of wrokers being sacked with scant compensation. Many are now jobless and homeless.
The story of the Ecuadorean workers' strikes go
230 workers on the TG-owned banana plantation Rio Culebra in Ecuador went on strike in the early summer. Now they are back in work because of the TG-managers threat of sacking them all. Some of the shop stewards has not been allowed to return to work. The strike was a protest because the manager did not pay the workers their salaries. And unlawfully the manager had not paid the health insurance for the workers. The Danish trade union, SID (General Workers Union) supports the banana workers union in Ecuador, FENACLE. And in a meeting with SID the TG-boss, Soren Sorensen (manager of all the TG-banana plantations in Belize) promised to better the conditions for the workers on the Rio Culebra-plantation in Ecuador. Since then nothing has happened. According to SID the workers got their salaries in the form of rubber cheques. And the manager, Danish TG-member Bjarne Hjorth, still has not paid the health insurance. SID found out when a worker on the plantation was bited by a snake. His comrades took him to the hospital - but he was thrown out because there was not paid for him by the plantation. The TG has at least two more banana-plantations in Ecuador.
Sept 2002 - workers sacked
Monday morning (Sept 2nd) the 230 workers on the Rio Culebra-banana plantation was met by armed guards when the were coming to work. The TG-manager Bjarne Hjorth sacked all the workers. Many of the workers live on the plantation. So not
only don't they have a job anymore - don't have a place to live either.
Dec 2002 - After a long strike last summer 90 workers has been sacked from the Tvind-owned banana plantation Rio Culebra in Ecuador. The 90 workers and their families is now totally without any income. Tvind has offered them a small compensation - a few hundred dollars. The workers have refused. According to the law the compensations offered by Tvind is all too small. For instance the shop steward Limber Alvarez, who have been working on the plantation for 14 years, should have had 7.500 dollars in compensation - he was only offered 200 dollars. The Tvind-owned plantation have still not
payed the social security for the workers - a total amount of 140.000 dollars. Tvind has just sold half of the 700 hectares belonging to Rio Culebra. According to local sources the are in a proces of selling the rest also. Another Tvind-plantation in Ecuador, Santa Rita, has been sold recently. 70 workers got sacked - without any compensation.
Frede Jakobson
TVIND NOW FACES HUMAN RIGHTS TRIAL
8th March 2003: Mogens Amdi Petersen and the other members of Tvind's management will now be accused at the Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg for violation of human rights.
CEOST, the federation of free trade unions in Ecuador, wants to bring the Tvind management to the Court for Human Rights because of infringements on trade union leaders at one of Tvind banana plantations in Ecuador. Simultaneously, the whole banana sector in Ecuador will be accused for violation of the right to organize (or: to unite).
The trade union members were in Denmark at the opening of Amdi Petersen's trial to attract attention to an amount of $600.000 which Tvind allegedly owes to 100 plantation workers who were fired last year after a strike.
After having tried to get the alleged Tvind-leader Amdi Petersen to talk in front of the court building in Århus, the Ecuadorians appeared later in front of Tvind's headquarters in Grindsted, backed by 15 to 20 persons from the Danish trade union Sid.
(Source: Danish press)
Tvind 'is leaving Ecuador'
7th March 2003: Tvind is leaving Ecuador. Local workers union representative says that Tvind has sold the Rio Culebra to a local sugar farmer. The Santa Rita plantation was sold October last year and the third Tvind farm, La Italia, is also up for sale.2003, Mar. 7. Source: SID/Fagbladet and Jes Fabricius Møller.
Strike among banana workers leads to Tvind workers sacked and homeless
In Guayquil, a city in Ecaudor, according to Danish press reports (1996), Tvind has a 'luxurious administrative building' where more than 50 staff work on three floors running Tvind's secret Latin American commercial empire.
In 1996, there were said to be eight farms in Ecuador alone, employing 2,000 workers.
Conditions are harsh on the Tvind commercial plantations in Ecuador, and none of the Tvind-educated Teachers Group managers, Soeren Soerensen, Ole Toft Anderson or Bjarne Hjorth does anything to improve them. In 2001 a series of strikes started on the banana plantations, which led to hundreds of wrokers being sacked with scant compensation. Many are now jobless and homeless.
The story of the Ecuadorean workers' strikes go
Sept 2002 - workers sacked
Monday morning (Sept 2nd) the 230 workers on the Rio Culebra-banana plantation was met by armed guards when the were coming to work. The TG-manager Bjarne Hjorth sacked all the workers. Many of the workers live on the plantation. So not
only don't they have a job anymore - don't have a place to live either.
Dec 2002 - After a long strike last summer 90 workers has been sacked from the Tvind-owned banana plantation Rio Culebra in Ecuador. The 90 workers and their families is now totally without any income. Tvind has offered them a small compensation - a few hundred dollars. The workers have refused. According to the law the compensations offered by Tvind is all too small. For instance the shop steward Limber Alvarez, who have been working on the plantation for 14 years, should have had 7.500 dollars in compensation - he was only offered 200 dollars. The Tvind-owned plantation have still not
payed the social security for the workers - a total amount of 140.000 dollars. Tvind has just sold half of the 700 hectares belonging to Rio Culebra. According to local sources the are in a proces of selling the rest also. Another Tvind-plantation in Ecuador, Santa Rita, has been sold recently. 70 workers got sacked - without any compensation.
Frede Jakobson
TVIND NOW FACES HUMAN RIGHTS TRIAL
8th March 2003: Mogens Amdi Petersen and the other members of Tvind's management will now be accused at the Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg for violation of human rights.
CEOST, the federation of free trade unions in Ecuador, wants to bring the Tvind management to the Court for Human Rights because of infringements on trade union leaders at one of Tvind banana plantations in Ecuador. Simultaneously, the whole banana sector in Ecuador will be accused for violation of the right to organize (or: to unite).
The trade union members were in Denmark at the opening of Amdi Petersen's trial to attract attention to an amount of $600.000 which Tvind allegedly owes to 100 plantation workers who were fired last year after a strike.
After having tried to get the alleged Tvind-leader Amdi Petersen to talk in front of the court building in Århus, the Ecuadorians appeared later in front of Tvind's headquarters in Grindsted, backed by 15 to 20 persons from the Danish trade union Sid.
(Source: Danish press)
Tvind 'is leaving Ecuador'
7th March 2003: Tvind is leaving Ecuador. Local workers union representative says that Tvind has sold the Rio Culebra to a local sugar farmer. The Santa Rita plantation was sold October last year and the third Tvind farm, La Italia, is also up for sale.2003, Mar. 7. Source: SID/Fagbladet and Jes Fabricius Møller.
Strike among banana workers leads to Tvind workers sacked and homeless
In Guayquil, a city in Ecaudor, according to Danish press reports (1996), Tvind has a 'luxurious administrative building' where more than 50 staff work on three floors running Tvind's secret Latin American commercial empire.
In 1996, there were said to be eight farms in Ecuador alone, employing 2,000 workers.
Conditions are harsh on the Tvind commercial plantations in Ecuador, and none of the Tvind-educated Teachers Group managers, Soeren Soerensen, Ole Toft Anderson or Bjarne Hjorth does anything to improve them. In 2001 a series of strikes started on the banana plantations, which led to hundreds of wrokers being sacked with scant compensation. Many are now jobless and homeless.
The story of the Ecuadorean workers' strikes go
Monday morning (Sept 2nd) the 230 workers on the Rio Culebra-banana plantation was met by armed guards when the were coming to work. The TG-manager Bjarne Hjorth sacked all the workers. Many of the workers live on the plantation. So not
only don't they have a job anymore - don't have a place to live either.
Dec 2002 - After a long strike last summer 90 workers has been sacked from the Tvind-owned banana plantation Rio Culebra in Ecuador. The 90 workers and their families is now totally without any income. Tvind has offered them a small compensation - a few hundred dollars. The workers have refused. According to the law the compensations offered by Tvind is all too small. For instance the shop steward Limber Alvarez, who have been working on the plantation for 14 years, should have had 7.500 dollars in compensation - he was only offered 200 dollars. The Tvind-owned plantation have still not
payed the social security for the workers - a total amount of 140.000 dollars. Tvind has just sold half of the 700 hectares belonging to Rio Culebra. According to local sources the are in a proces of selling the rest also. Another Tvind-plantation in Ecuador, Santa Rita, has been sold recently. 70 workers got sacked - without any compensation.
Frede Jakobson
TVIND NOW FACES HUMAN RIGHTS TRIAL
8th March 2003: Mogens Amdi Petersen and the other members of Tvind's management will now be accused at the Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg for violation of human rights.
CEOST, the federation of free trade unions in Ecuador, wants to bring the Tvind management to the Court for Human Rights because of infringements on trade union leaders at one of Tvind banana plantations in Ecuador. Simultaneously, the whole banana sector in Ecuador will be accused for violation of the right to organize (or: to unite).
The trade union members were in Denmark at the opening of Amdi Petersen's trial to attract attention to an amount of $600.000 which Tvind allegedly owes to 100 plantation workers who were fired last year after a strike.
After having tried to get the alleged Tvind-leader Amdi Petersen to talk in front of the court building in Århus, the Ecuadorians appeared later in front of Tvind's headquarters in Grindsted, backed by 15 to 20 persons from the Danish trade union Sid.
(Source: Danish press)
Tvind 'is leaving Ecuador'
7th March 2003: Tvind is leaving Ecuador. Local workers union representative says that Tvind has sold the Rio Culebra to a local sugar farmer. The Santa Rita plantation was sold October last year and the third Tvind farm, La Italia, is also up for sale.2003, Mar. 7. Source: SID/Fagbladet and Jes Fabricius Møller.
Strike among banana workers leads to Tvind workers sacked and homeless
In Guayquil, a city in Ecaudor, according to Danish press reports (1996), Tvind has a 'luxurious administrative building' where more than 50 staff work on three floors running Tvind's secret Latin American commercial empire.
In 1996, there were said to be eight farms in Ecuador alone, employing 2,000 workers.
Conditions are harsh on the Tvind commercial plantations in Ecuador, and none of the Tvind-educated Teachers Group managers, Soeren Soerensen, Ole Toft Anderson or Bjarne Hjorth does anything to improve them. In 2001 a series of strikes started on the banana plantations, which led to hundreds of wrokers being sacked with scant compensation. Many are now jobless and homeless.
The story of the Ecuadorean workers' strikes go
Dec 2002 - After a long strike last summer 90 workers has been sacked from the Tvind-owned banana plantation Rio Culebra in Ecuador. The 90 workers and their families is now totally without any income. Tvind has offered them a small compensation - a few hundred dollars. The workers have refused. According to the law the compensations offered by Tvind is all too small. For instance the shop steward Limber Alvarez, who have been working on the plantation for 14 years, should have had 7.500 dollars in compensation - he was only offered 200 dollars. The Tvind-owned plantation have still not
payed the social security for the workers - a total amount of 140.000 dollars. Tvind has just sold half of the 700 hectares belonging to Rio Culebra. According to local sources the are in a proces of selling the rest also. Another Tvind-plantation in Ecuador, Santa Rita, has been sold recently. 70 workers got sacked - without any compensation.
Frede Jakobson
TVIND NOW FACES HUMAN RIGHTS TRIAL
8th March 2003: Mogens Amdi Petersen and the other members of Tvind's management will now be accused at the Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg for violation of human rights.
CEOST, the federation of free trade unions in Ecuador, wants to bring the Tvind management to the Court for Human Rights because of infringements on trade union leaders at one of Tvind banana plantations in Ecuador. Simultaneously, the whole banana sector in Ecuador will be accused for violation of the right to organize (or: to unite).
The trade union members were in Denmark at the opening of Amdi Petersen's trial to attract attention to an amount of $600.000 which Tvind allegedly owes to 100 plantation workers who were fired last year after a strike.
After having tried to get the alleged Tvind-leader Amdi Petersen to talk in front of the court building in Århus, the Ecuadorians appeared later in front of Tvind's headquarters in Grindsted, backed by 15 to 20 persons from the Danish trade union Sid.
(Source: Danish press)
Tvind 'is leaving Ecuador'
7th March 2003: Tvind is leaving Ecuador. Local workers union representative says that Tvind has sold the Rio Culebra to a local sugar farmer. The Santa Rita plantation was sold October last year and the third Tvind farm, La Italia, is also up for sale.2003, Mar. 7. Source: SID/Fagbladet and Jes Fabricius Møller.
Strike among banana workers leads to Tvind workers sacked and homeless
In Guayquil, a city in Ecaudor, according to Danish press reports (1996), Tvind has a 'luxurious administrative building' where more than 50 staff work on three floors running Tvind's secret Latin American commercial empire.
In 1996, there were said to be eight farms in Ecuador alone, employing 2,000 workers.
Conditions are harsh on the Tvind commercial plantations in Ecuador, and none of the Tvind-educated Teachers Group managers, Soeren Soerensen, Ole Toft Anderson or Bjarne Hjorth does anything to improve them. In 2001 a series of strikes started on the banana plantations, which led to hundreds of wrokers being sacked with scant compensation. Many are now jobless and homeless.
The story of the Ecuadorean workers' strikes go
Frede Jakobson
TVIND NOW FACES HUMAN RIGHTS TRIAL
8th March 2003: Mogens Amdi Petersen and the other members of Tvind's management will now be accused at the Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg for violation of human rights.
CEOST, the federation of free trade unions in Ecuador, wants to bring the Tvind management to the Court for Human Rights because of infringements on trade union leaders at one of Tvind banana plantations in Ecuador. Simultaneously, the whole banana sector in Ecuador will be accused for violation of the right to organize (or: to unite).
The trade union members were in Denmark at the opening of Amdi Petersen's trial to attract attention to an amount of $600.000 which Tvind allegedly owes to 100 plantation workers who were fired last year after a strike.
After having tried to get the alleged Tvind-leader Amdi Petersen to talk in front of the court building in Århus, the Ecuadorians appeared later in front of Tvind's headquarters in Grindsted, backed by 15 to 20 persons from the Danish trade union Sid.
(Source: Danish press)
Tvind 'is leaving Ecuador'
7th March 2003: Tvind is leaving Ecuador. Local workers union representative says that Tvind has sold the Rio Culebra to a local sugar farmer. The Santa Rita plantation was sold October last year and the third Tvind farm, La Italia, is also up for sale.2003, Mar. 7. Source: SID/Fagbladet and Jes Fabricius Møller.
Strike among banana workers leads to Tvind workers sacked and homeless
In Guayquil, a city in Ecaudor, according to Danish press reports (1996), Tvind has a 'luxurious administrative building' where more than 50 staff work on three floors running Tvind's secret Latin American commercial empire.
In 1996, there were said to be eight farms in Ecuador alone, employing 2,000 workers.
Conditions are harsh on the Tvind commercial plantations in Ecuador, and none of the Tvind-educated Teachers Group managers, Soeren Soerensen, Ole Toft Anderson or Bjarne Hjorth does anything to improve them. In 2001 a series of strikes started on the banana plantations, which led to hundreds of wrokers being sacked with scant compensation. Many are now jobless and homeless.
The story of the Ecuadorean workers' strikes go
TVIND NOW FACES HUMAN RIGHTS TRIAL
8th March 2003: Mogens Amdi Petersen and the other members of Tvind's management will now be accused at the Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg for violation of human rights.
CEOST, the federation of free trade unions in Ecuador, wants to bring the Tvind management to the Court for Human Rights because of infringements on trade union leaders at one of Tvind banana plantations in Ecuador. Simultaneously, the whole banana sector in Ecuador will be accused for violation of the right to organize (or: to unite).
The trade union members were in Denmark at the opening of Amdi Petersen's trial to attract attention to an amount of $600.000 which Tvind allegedly owes to 100 plantation workers who were fired last year after a strike.
After having tried to get the alleged Tvind-leader Amdi Petersen to talk in front of the court building in Århus, the Ecuadorians appeared later in front of Tvind's headquarters in Grindsted, backed by 15 to 20 persons from the Danish trade union Sid.
(Source: Danish press)
Tvind 'is leaving Ecuador'
7th March 2003: Tvind is leaving Ecuador. Local workers union representative says that Tvind has sold the Rio Culebra to a local sugar farmer. The Santa Rita plantation was sold October last year and the third Tvind farm, La Italia, is also up for sale.2003, Mar. 7. Source: SID/Fagbladet and Jes Fabricius Møller.
Strike among banana workers leads to Tvind workers sacked and homeless
In Guayquil, a city in Ecaudor, according to Danish press reports (1996), Tvind has a 'luxurious administrative building' where more than 50 staff work on three floors running Tvind's secret Latin American commercial empire.
In 1996, there were said to be eight farms in Ecuador alone, employing 2,000 workers.
Conditions are harsh on the Tvind commercial plantations in Ecuador, and none of the Tvind-educated Teachers Group managers, Soeren Soerensen, Ole Toft Anderson or Bjarne Hjorth does anything to improve them. In 2001 a series of strikes started on the banana plantations, which led to hundreds of wrokers being sacked with scant compensation. Many are now jobless and homeless.
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