Honduras: In preparation to negotiations, dirty games by Cabcorp

IUF-affiliate STIBYS is in the process of preparing collective bargaining with the Pepsi bottler in Honduras, La Reyna (part of Guatemalan Cabcorp). Workers demands focus as a priority at ensuring that permanent work can not be outsourced and that each new hire is for an indefinite time and with a regular work contract.

However the company in anticipation of the bargaining process has started to use a preventive strategy in order to weaken the union by intimidating organised workers, violating the current CBA.

Porfirio Ponce, STIBYS vice president, said " "It's a strategy the company has always used before entering the collective bargaining process. We are not afraid, but we are concerned because it is violating the law."

Read the full interview with him on the Rel-UITA website (in Spanish).