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Industrial Pesquera Junin S.A. JUNSA

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Industrial Pesquera Junin S.A. JUNSA

Site

address
Km. 10.5 Manta-Rocafuerte
city
Jaramijó
region
Manabí
country
Ecuador

Crimes & Concerns

  1. Labor & Human Rights
  2. Civil Unrest

Industrial Pesquera Junin S.A. JUNSA is directly associated with labor & human rights issues such as wage-related violation and civil unrest involving protests or strikes.

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Civil Unrest
On September 6, 2019, workers at Junsa held a protest outside the plant. “Here we are, the workers of the industrial plant Pesquera Junsa, raising our voice in protest for their unpaid salaries,” said a Facebook post by one of the protesters, Power Flores. “It has been more than three years without contributions to the Iess and five months without receiving our salary from Mr. Tómala, who are only deceiving us that they are going to catch up but it is a pure lie what corresponds to this year, they have been giving us 200, 150, 100, they even gave us only 50 dollars, that is why we please ask the competent authorities to take action on the matter.” In a Facebook post on September 7, 2019, one user criticized Fausto Tomala, an evangelical pastor who owned the plant. “He became a millionaire by destroying the peninsular seas,” said the post. “Today he mistreats his workers.” On September 9, 2019, a lawyer representing the unpaid workers appeared on Radio Record 106.5 to discuss the case in a video posted on Facebook.
On January 12, 2021, Radio Record 106.5 shared a video on Facebook of another protest of Junsa. The case affected more than two hundred fifty fishers who lost two years of social security benefits, according to a Facebook post by José Armando Mejía Galarza on January 12, 2021.
Labor & Human Rights
On September 26, 2019, a local radio station shared a video of another protest in front of the plant. “Empresa Industrial Pesquera Junín has been violating our rights for years,” wrote another Facebook user who shared the radio station’s post. In May 2020, Junsa declared bankruptcy, laying off workers and leaving suppliers in debt, according to a Facebook post by Josefa Saeteros. “This is the case of the company Industrial Pesquera Junin that since 2015 has withheld my social security contributions and failed to pay them,” wrote one Twitter user on June 5, 2020. “This was reported to the provincial directorate of Santa Elena but they still do not respond to this case.” In a July 29, 2020 Facebook post, a user named Power Flores wrote: “Thanks to God, the Virgin and the lawyer Johanna Tumbaco, for the second time we won the appeal hearing for the liquidation of the company Junsa.” On January 12, 2021, Radio Record 106.5 shared a video on Facebook of another protest of Junsa. The Junsa case affected more than 250 fishers who lost two years of social security benefits, according to a Facebook post by José Armando Mejía Galarza on January 12, 2021.

Reporting

On September 6, 2019, workers at Junsa held a protest outside the plant. “Here we are, the workers of the industrial plant Pesquera Junsa, raising our voice in protest for their unpaid salaries,” said a Facebook post by one of the protesters, Power Flores. “It has been more than three years without contributions to the Iess and five months without receiving our salary from Mr. Tómala, who are only deceiving us that they are going to catch up but it is a pure lie what corresponds to this year, they have been giving us 200, 150, 100, they even gave us only 50 dollars, that is why we please ask the competent authorities to take action on the matter.”1 In a Facebook post on September 7, 2019, one user criticized Fausto Tomala, an evangelical pastor who owned the plant. “He became a millionaire by destroying the peninsular seas,” said the post. “Today he mistreats his workers.”2 On September 9, 2019, a lawyer representing the unpaid workers appeared on Radio Record 106.5 to discuss the case in a video posted on Facebook.3

On September 26, 2019, a local radio station shared a video of another protest in front of the plant.4 “Empresa Industrial Pesquera Junín has been violating our rights for years,” wrote another Facebook user who shared the radio station’s post.5 In May 2020, Junsa declared bankruptcy, laying off workers and leaving suppliers in debt, according to a Facebook post by Josefa Saeteros.6 “This is the case of the company Industrial Pesquera Junin that since 2015 has withheld my social security contributions and failed to pay them,” wrote one Twitter user on June 5, 2020. “This was reported to the provincial directorate of Santa Elena but they still do not respond to this case.”7 In a July 29, 2020 Facebook post, a user named Power Flores wrote: “Thanks to God, the Virgin and the lawyer Johanna Tumbaco, for the second time we won the appeal hearing for the liquidation of the company Junsa.”8 On January 12, 2021, Radio Record 106.5 shared a video on Facebook of another protest of Junsa.9 The Junsa case affected more than 250 fishers who lost two years of social security benefits, according to a Facebook post by José Armando Mejía Galarza on January 12, 2021.10

Industrial Pesquera Junin S.A. Junsa did not respond to a request for comment.11

Stink Radius

Industrial Pesquera Junin S.A. JUNSA
DistancePeopleChildren*
5 miles: 34,8379,954
3 miles: 6,4841,799
1 mile: 584168
0.5 miles: 14643
* individuals under the age of 15

At least 100 people lived within a half mile of this plant, over 40 of them under the age of 15, while more than 34,800 lived within a five-mile radius, of which over 9,900 were under the age of 15, according to 2025 data from World Pop, a research institute based at the University of Southampton. This matters because it gives a sense of how many neighbors experience the quality of life concerns and health impacts of the foul stench of rotting fish and other toxic chemicals released into the air.