In May 2019, we published a counter-report on the sustainable development of Socfin’s plantations, working for the Bolloré group (Unsustainable Development Report, original French version here). A year later, the situation on the plantation did not change much and we decided to publish a summary of the report in English, in order to reach non-French-speaking […]

Below is an update on how the network’s trade unionists are fighting to support workers and citizens and prepare for the next. News from Belgium, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, USA, France, Mali, Morocco, Quebec, Senegal, Switzerland and Tunisia. Together, everywhere for transnational trade unionism! Belgium The containment was put in place from 18 March 2020, schools […]

Tribune originally published in Humanity. On 26 and 27 May 2020, the general meetings of the Socfin and Bolloré groups take place. Socfin, which is 39.7%[1] owned by the Bolloré Group, controls 400,000 hectares of oil palm and rubber concessions in ten countries in Africa and Asia. While in Luxembourg and Paris, shareholders meet behind […]