UNION TOUR SEES BITTER FRUITS OF EXPLOITATION

Hazards 77 photofile, Jan-Mar 2002

Little luxuries Liqueurs from Cointreau and Grand Marnier. First world luxuries made in third world conditions for poverty wages. This was the finding of UK union GMB's investigation last year in the Caribbean island of Haiti.

And GMB Northern Region's Rehana Azam and Barry Sewell found other multinationals making a respectable profit from far from respectable working conditions in the factories and plantations of the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Novella, providing coffee for multinationals Nescafe and Lavazza, treats its workers "worse than dogs," GMB's investigators concluded.

Little luxuries Hazards 77 Jan-March 2002 ORDER

Worker appeal
International campaign organisations are supporting Haiti's trade unions in their struggle for improved conditions. You can help. More information from:

• GMB Northern Region report
• War on Want here or here
• Haiti Support Group here
• Cointreau action alert here