Issues around malpractices by a labour sub-contractor in Peru have been finally resolved, whilst in Ecuador, Dole-Ubesa have negotiated the company's first collective agreements in the country in both pineapple and banana plantations in 2010-11.
It remains to be seen whether the progress in some countries can be translated into real changes on the ground in a country such as Guatemala, where the suppression of any attempt at union organisation in the Pacific South is still severe.