Blue Diamond Workers United

Many Spanish union activists and allies joined visitors from the ILWU to welcome Blue Diamond Growers CEO Doug Youngdahl to Madrid May 12. The activists included (back row, left to right) Rosa Sanz, Port of Barcelona; Emilio Manzano Lorenzo, Josep Puig, Jordi Perea and Rafa Eqea from La Coordinadora; Javier Doz and Isabel Runcle from the Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras. (Front row, left to right) Cesario Aguirre, BDG Organizing Committee; Agustin Ramirez, ILWU International Organizer; and Sebastian Besora, Unió de Pagesos de Catalunya.