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From: IUF Urgent Action <i...@iuf.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 2:49 PM
Subject: Workers fighting for their rights at Indonesia's Great Giant
Pineapple need your support
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Four years after instant factory closure, workers are still fighting for
their rights at Indonesia's Great Giant Pineapple
In May 2016, the agrofood conglomerate Gunung Sewu Group announced the
immediate closure of its tapioca-based starch factory in Lampung,
Indonesia, with no prior notice and without any negotiations with the
union, SBMUJA. Four years on, Gunung Sewu still refuses to negotiate with
the union to remedy these violations of fundamental rights: the withdrawal
of union recognition and the workers' right to freedom of association which
accompanied the overnight closure.
Umas Jaya Agrotama is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Gunung Sewu Group's
Great Giant Pineapple. Great Giant Pineapple is one of the world's largest
pineapple producers, whose canned products are exported worldwide. Despite
its international reputation and its claim to be working for "individual
and collective empowerment" ("That's why we still have employees who have
been with us for 20 and 30 years"), Gunung Sewu Group ruined the lives of
hundreds of families in a rural community in Lampung when it ordered the
immediate closure of the factory. The casual workers on precarious
contracts exploited for years were abruptly terminated and tossed on the
scrapheap.
With the support of the IUF, SBMUJA continues to fight for their rights. CLICK
HERE
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to send a message to top management of the parent company insisting that it
remedy these violations of fundamental rights by entering into good faith
negotiations with the union.
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