“The compromise agreement stipulates that parties should not take retaliatory actions against parties, but Sumifru did this to us.”
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Thousands of banana growers decry wage cuts under new piece-rate system
“We are already earning little and working more than 12-hour shifts. Now under the piece rate system, we earn even less.”
Japanese Pastors Learn Shocking Things About Davao Bananas
Outraged by the “inhuman” treatment of workers in a Compostela Valley banana plantation, a Japanese pastor promises himself to stop eating bananas. BY GERMELINA A. LACORTE Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 1, February 3-9, 2008 Outraged by the “inhuman” treatment of workers in a Compostela Valley banana plantation, a Japanese pastor promises…