Delassus

ILO violation 87 : The UMT’s agricultural workers’ federation reported in March that 150 workers had been dismissed by “La Clémentine” farm, producing flowers for export, because of their union membership. Workers at the farm had been involved in a long running battle with the company that runs the farm, the Delassus group, since the union was created in 2004. The General Secretary of the agricultural workers’ federation Fédération Nationale du Secteur Agricole (FNSA-UMT) further reported that whenever workers’ protested at their appalling conditions, the local authorities intervened not to enforce the workers’ rights but to suppress the right to strike. There had already been violent interventions by the police in 2004 and 2005 resulting in workers’ being injured, and trade unionists arrested and sentenced.: Morocco