Flower Power

Colombian plantation workers are fighting an uphill battle to unionize and secure better working conditions.

By David Moberg

If you buy flowers for Mother's Day this year, think for a moment about Amanda Camacho. Camacho, a diminutive single mother with long black hair, works on a carnation plantation on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia, the country that provides the United States with 60 percent [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    It’s not only toxic flowers but bananas as well. The US companies Dole and Chiqita exploit their workers in South and Middle America. The usage of pesticides on plantation is so intense that workers not only get sick but also get children with birth defects. The labor conditions are really a horror. Protests of workers are futile. They are fired immediately.
    Just read more about it here

    Germany Posted by Jimmy Jimbo on May 27, 2009 at 12:42 AM
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