"We are surprised" that Costa Rica violates union rights

Veröffentlicht: 20 März 2010
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English by Ivonne Jackelen

"Costa Rica has an image of a democratic country, however what happened with the union Sintrajap greatly surprised us," were the first expressions of the representatives of GMB and Banana Link, UK trade organisations that are in the country for 15 days to get to know the labor situation in banana and pineapple plantations as well as the interference in Sintrajap under the Arias government.



"Such actions of a government (blackmail and installing an illegal board) we knew from the dictatorships of the 70's in South America but we were surprised by what we saw here in Costa Rica in the XXI century" said Bert Schouwenburg, responsible for foreign affairs of GMB.



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