Dole Targeted by Banana Link and 73 Other Human Rights Organisations

Dole is a multinational food company. According to its own annual reports it is the world’s leader in the production and trading of fresh fruit, vegetables and fresh cut flowers. It sells more than 200 products in 90 countries, and employs 36,000 workers as well as 23,000 seasonal workers. Simultaneously, Banana Link, the IUF and COLSIBA (the Coordination of Latin American Banana Worker’s Unions) and three other international organisations released a special reportentitled, ” Dole, Behind the Smoke Screen”, an investigation into Dole’s banana plantations in Latin America, documenting Dole worker rights violations in Latin America.