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Ecuador Updated March 2003

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

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