2000-2002 campaign

Campaign for union rights, pay increases and improved conditions for Grand Marnier and Cointreau orange workers

Remaining two Batay Ouvriye prisoners released at last - 4 December 2002

International Confederation of Free Trade Unions condemns anti-union repression - 26 November 2002

Emergency appeal by Batay Ouvriye - 4 September 2002 workers

Seven of the nine people illegally detained without charge since the Batay Ouvriye union rally on 27 May have been released - Haiti Support Group press release - 22 August 2002

London unions press Aristide on illegally detained workers - 19 August 2002

Open letter to Haiti's European Union ambassador demanding action over the continued detention of Batay Ouvriye union members -19 July 2002

Rights & Democracy - a Canadian organisation with an international mandate - writes to President Aristide calling for the release of the Guacimal detainees - 19 July 2002

Haiti Support Group press release: International outcry over continued detention of Batay Ouvriye union members in Haiti - 3 July 2002

Press release: Haiti Support Group demands immediate and unconditional release of imprisoned union members - 20 June 2002

Call for release of detained workers and journalists - 4 June 2002

Open letter to President Aristide: organised workers and peasants attacked, journalists detained without charge - 31 May 2002

Labor Tensions Rising in Haitian Orange Industry (OneWorld News) - 29 April 2002

Press release: Guacimal workers face violent repression as Batay Ouvriye warns of a possible massacre - 26 April 2002

Haiti Support Group press release: Rémy Cointreau tries to wash its hands of responsibility for Guacimal's denial of union rights - 25 February 2002

Letters exchanged between Batay Ouvriye and Rémy Cointreau - December 2001 and January 2002

Action Alert! One more effort to get Rémy Cointreau to respect union rights - February 2002

Bitter Fruit - New Internationalist article - December 2001

Press release - Cointreau's lies exposed - 4 December 2001

Update on the Cointreau workers' campaign - 28 November

Open letter to the Social Affairs Minister concerning union-busting at Desglereaux

Press release - The Haiti Support Group condemns union-busting by the United Nations WFP - 26 October

Cointreau: a particularly bitter orange liqueur Trade Union World - the ICFTU journal, 4 September 2001

Press release: Haiti Support Group calls on Rémy Cointreau to intervene + model letter - September 2001

Open letter to Rémy Cointreau by workers' unions at St. Raphaël and Madeline - July 2001

Curbing the abuses of global capitalism - workers' rights in The Observer, 8 July

Update on the situation concerning the unions at Guacimal-Cointreau and Desglereaux - June 2001

Cointreau workers' union occupy St Raphaël plantation - May 2001

Update on the Cointreau orange workers' dispute at Madeline - May 2001

Update on the Cointreau orange workers' strike at St. Raphaël - April 2001

Struggle for union rights - Haiti's orange workers in Multinational Monitor - January 2001

Success for the Marnier-Lapostolle orange workers - August 2000




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