Haiti

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Latest on union struggle at Coca Cola plant in Haiti.