Raising the Flag for Union Rights in Guatemala Bottle distributors trying to unionize face 2-year strike, 2 assassinations http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3521

According to Edwin Alvarez Guevara, Secretary General of the Peten Distributors Union (SITRAPETEN), Agua Pura Salvavidas employees wanted fair working conditions so they decided to organize a union in 2007. In response, their employer used classic union-busting tactics: the company temporarily closed the factory, declared bankruptcy, then opened new subsidiary companies.