Citra Mina workers defend their picket line!
With strong support from members and the community, Citra Mina workers in General Santos, Philippines have beaten back company pressure to end their factory picket. On April 22, the Mayor’s...
IUF, Greenpeace, unions, human rights organisations join with government to develop “Worker Safe” initiative
...workers of Citra Mina tuna company for their rights has attracted widespread civil society and government attention to General Santos. As most of the Philippines’ catch fish and seafood is...
May Day Philippines: support for Citra Mina workers makes it the biggest ever march in General Santos
Over two thousand people went out on the streets of General Santos of May 1st to support the demands for the human rights for Citra Mina workers. Led by the...
Workers Memorial Day in General Santos, Philippines – Citra Mina workers remember their dead and fight for the living
The Citra Mina Workers Union and their national centre SENTRO commemorated Workers Memorial Day with the families of fishing vessel workers declared lost at sea. Over the past two years,...
Union action at Belgian Seafood Expo raises pressure on Citra Mina
The IUF, International Transport Workers’ Federation and Belgian unions CSC Alimentation et Services, FGTB Horval, and CSC Transcom raised the growing pressure on the Citra Mina Group at the Brussels...
World trade unions hold tuna company Citra Mina to account at Brussels SeaFoodExpo
...23 April, is the world’s largest seafood trade fair, where the Citra Mina Group’s Philfresh Corporation was one of the 1,700 companies exhibiting and seeking contracts with buyers. Citra Mina...
Philippines Congress shines spotlight on tuna giant Citra Mina’s brutal abuses
The first in a series of Congressional hearings into abuses and illegal practices by Philippines tuna producer Citra Mina got under way on March 18 in the Philippines’ House of...
Union action secures release of fishing crew abandoned by tuna giant Citra Mina
After nearly six months in prison, forty-three fishermen abandoned by the Philippines’ tuna company Citra Mina when their vessel was seized by the Indonesian government are returning home. The news...
Congress Representatives call on Philippines government to investigate rights violations at Citra Mina tuna group
...at the Citra Mina group of tuna companies, where workers are fighting for union recognition and the reinstatement of workers sacked last year after forming a union. The IUF and...
Unions turn Tuna Congress spotlight on Citra Mina rights violations
...tuna industry depends on workers as well as fish, workers have rights and Citra Mina is violating these rights. Citra Mina sponsored this year’s Tuna Congress, organized by the fisheries...
Citra Mina’s Human Right Violations Exposed During the Philipinnes Tuna Congress
...its continuing human rights violation. Bearing “Justice for Citra Mina” banner and chanting, “because of Citra Mina, our families are hungry,” the workers conducted a die-in right outside the hall...
Citra Mina workers union celebrates the first year of registration
Citra Mina workers gathered to celebrate the first year of the registration of their union with a loud chant: Workers United Will Never be defeated! Mabuhay ang uring manggagawa !!!...