“Worker voice” is the current buzzword among corporate social responsibility professionals seeking to end labor exploitation in the seafood industry, yet the original meaning of worker voice – in which workers form associations to collectively bargain for better conditions on an equal footing with employers – is nowhere to be found.

Marys Suyapa Gómez, a Honduran melon worker, was fired last fall after she became pregnant. Her story of labor rights abuses is one of many documented by an international delegation in June 2016.