Not exact matches
Worker Exploitation: Many
banana plantation workers
work long hours in difficult conditions - handling pesticides and herbicides without sufficient protection - for low wages and poor job security.
The hotel is set amongst 50 acres of a
working plantation where
bananas, oranges, peppercorn and coffee are grown.
Through the
wrought - iron gates at the end of a bougainvillea - lined drive you will find Plumbago - as pretty as the flower that shares it's name, set on an avocado and
banana farm, it sits above the
plantation watching over out to the Kruger National Park in the distance.
Through the
wrought - iron gates at the end of a bougainvillea - lined drive you will find Plumbago - as pretty as the flower that shares it's name, set on an avocado and
banana farm, it sits above the
plantation watchi...
Villa Penari at Canggu Terrace is a comfortably designed, contemporary - styled two - bedroomed villa bordered on two sides by
working rice fields, coconut trees and
banana plantations and infused with the rustic charm of the Balinese countryside.
Elements of the
work include wall text around war, imperialism, and democracy, historical footage of US militarization contrasted with the ruins of contemporary bases, forms of labor and production in the industries of mining, fishing, and
banana plantation interspersed with interviews with workers, and a lush, dreamlike, and perpetually dissolving set of landscapes set against some of Dizon's own reflections on life, death, land, return and passage.
«This is the first time any case for a
banana worker has come before a U.S. court,» Duane Miller, one of the attorneys representing more than 30 Nicaraguan plaintiffs who
worked on
plantations from 1964 to 1990, tells BusinessWeek.According to one upcoming lawsuit that was filed in 2004, Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit Co., now part of Dole, were not only negligent, but that they fraudulently concealed information about DBCP's effects.
In Innisfail he
worked on a
banana plantation for $ 25 / hr, twice as much as he was making at his entry level design job back home.