El sindicalista: organo oficial del Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Tela Railroad Company

Sindicato de Trabajores de la Tela Railroad Company, known as SITRATERCO, is a labor union representing banana workers in Honduras.

The Tela Railroad Company owned and operated a railroad on the north coast of Honduras. The company was a subsidiary of United Fruit, an American corporation that traded in fruits, primarily bananas. United Fruit controlled massive acreages in Central America and numerous transportation networks. It also exercised immense influence on the politics and governance of the countries in which it operated. In Honduras, United Fruit and its president Samuel Zemurray were instrumental in the fomenting a coup d'état against President Dávila in 1910, leading to the election of General Manuel Bonilla. General Bonilla then granted exclusive railroad land concessions to Samuel Zamuerry, who granted them to the Tela Railroad Company. United Fruit was rebranded as Chiquita Banana in 1984 and still operates in Honduras.

Sindicato de Trabajadores represent the workers on this railroad and was formed in response to the General Strike of 1954 in Tela, Honduras. In Spring 1954, 25,000 workers at the Tela Railroad Company, 11,000 at rival company Standard Fruit, and several thousand other Honduran workers staged a walk out, halting most business and causing a national crisis. The workers at United Fruit stayed on strike for 10 weeks, but during that time the initial leaders of the strike were arrested by the Honduran government. The US Embassy worked with the Honduran government and helped arrange a resolution to the strike. The final compromise was that United Fruit would pay minor wage increases, the original members of the strike committee were not involved in the negotiations, and the AFL-CIO would support the nascent union, SITRATERCO.