Dixsia is mother to a couple of children, a 10 year old boy and a 3 year old girl. Her father was Guanacastean (Costa Rica’s North Pacific lands) and her mother came from the South part of the country. More precisely, she was from Corredores, Puntarenas Province, where COOPETRABASUR is located.
Banana activities are not unknown to her, because her father worled at the Chiquita banana company. When she left the South region of Costa Rica, she turned into founding partner of the Cooperativa de Trabajadores Bananeros del Sur in 1980.
Dixsia’s efforts at this time are focused on finishing her high school studies, the same ones she had to hold off on at age 15 when her father died to be able to take on the reality of helping out at her home financially.
Aside from helping out in the coordination of the medical office, Dixsia is also the union’s treasure for the Employees Association.
She believes that a day’s work at the union is like being amongst family. She spends most of her workday at the office and, over time, she has learned to follow through with her duties with a sense of belonging in regards to COOPETRABASUR, which allows her to work in everyone’s best interest.
Dixsia thinks of the union as her second family, an organization to which she has given 12 years’ work in different areas such as the field, the packaging plant and now administrative duties. To her, COOPETRABASUR means security, and a guarantee of stability for her entire family. |
