The labor policy that the Spanish company CALVO, a producer and distributor of canned fish, is carrying out in El Salvador is not only at odds with the law and all ethical principles, it also violates the most basic human rights. After having threatened to leave the country if El Salvador did not ratify four of the ILO’s fundamental conventions –which would enable it to export tariff-free to the European Union- and having achieved its goal, CALVO is now denying its workers the right to form a union under these conventions.

 

As if its record weren’t bad enough to provoke the strongest contempt against the company’s conduct, it has added yet another serious element to its string of abuses: CALVO is now forcing its workers to take a polygraph (lie detector) test, where, among other questions, they must answer if they “are a member of the union” and what they “think of the unionists that are active in the company.”

 

We are asking you to contribute to the campaign we are launching to defend the rights of the workers of CALVO El Salvador and to protest against the appalling behavior of this Spanish transnational corporation.