Court victory for Haiti union
A Haitian court has ordered the Grupo M Free Trade Zone located on the Haitian-Dominican border to pay 1.5 million gourdes (approximately US$40,000) in damages for violations of workers’ rights. The ruling is good news for the workers and for Batay Ouvriye, the union attempting to unionise the FTZ. In the UK the Haiti Support Group and No Sweat have both been actively helping the Batay Ouvriye initiative. The FTZ workers are employed by Grupo M, a large Dominican firm, to stitch clothes for the Sara Lee Corporation and for Levi’s. A series of protests have aimed to highlight Levi’s role, and...