Haiti

Haiti: Civil society organisations call for an increase in the minimum wage and improvements in labour conditions

Jean Paul Faubert started sacking workers in December 2007, and then he closed down the factory, just like that, on 26 March 2008. Around 800 male and female workers were left unemployed. He simply attached a notice on the gate notifying them to go and collect their pay at the Labour department of the Ministry of Social Affairs. To this day, those workers have not been able to get what they are legally owed, in spite of several television and radio reports concerning this case.

Haitian Workers Fighting Rising Prices

THE MOBILIZATION MUST CONTINUE

Widespread MOBILIZATION against the high cost of life has taken place in the cities of Cayes, Petit Goave, Jeremie, Port-au-Prince, everywhere… The people are fed up! We’re hungry, and poverty is finishing us off little by little.

Reports Batay Ouvriye

Report from Batay Ouvriye, Haiti

INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES, DECEMBER 2007
POLITICAL BULLETIN, Vol. 2, No. 3

Photo from inside the Grupo M factory in Ouanaminthe

Photo from inside the Grupo M factory in Ouanaminthe

Workers producing Levi's jeans, Free Trade Zone, Haiti

Photo from inside the Grupo M factory in Ouanaminthe

Photo from inside the Grupo M factory in Ouanaminthe

Workers producing Levi's jeans, Haiti.

Photo from inside the Grupo M factory in Ouanaminthe

Photo from inside the Grupo M factory in Ouanaminthe

Workers producing Levi jeans, free Trade Zone, Haiti

Batay Ouvriye and Brazilian Trade Unionists Attacked in Haiti

Statement from Batay Ouvriye, on the violent attack on them and trade union comrades from Brazil, in Haiti on a solidarity tour...

Haitian migrant labourers in the Dominican Republic face poor conditions

A new film on the conditions faced by Haitian migrant labourers on sugar plantations in the neighbouring Dominician Republic has sparked controversy. Haitians live in poor conditions on plantations and even those born in the Republic are denied citizenship. Film-makers have faced legal threats and intimidation from sugar barons trying to avoid the word getting out about the desperate conditions of workers.

Haiti:

Anti-union dismissals at the brewery in Cap-Haïtien*
- 17 March 2007

Solidarity with workers at Coca-Cola subsidiary

Latest on union struggle at Coca Cola plant in Haiti.

Batay Ouvryie

Batay Ouvryie

Batay Ouvryie (Workers' Struggle) union activists, Haiti. Batay Ouvryie's Yannick Ettiene visited the UK in 2004 for a solidarity tour organised by No Sweat and the Haiti Support Group.

Haiti Support Group

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'The Haiti Support Group (HSG) is an association of individuals who support the Haitian people in their struggle for justice, human rights, and participatory democracy. It is a solidarity group based in the United Kingdom. The HSG was launched in June 1992 in the aftermath of the military coup d'état that overthrew the democratic government...'

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