AFL-CIO
Monday, August 1, 2016 - 15:06
Due to the involvement of Honduran security forces in the murder of Berta Cáceres, as well as a number of other documented human rights violations, the AFL-CIO is now calling for all U.S. aid to Honduran security forces to be suspended.
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 00:00
The AFL-CIO will continue to vigorously oppose the proposed free trade agreement with Colombia so long as the "horrifying levels of labor and human rights violations in the country" continue.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 00:00
To date, 682,900 U.S. jobs have been lost or displaced since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect in 1994, a new Economic Policy Institute (EPI) study finds.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 00:00
When 14 Colombian trade union members were in the United States for a training program, they were unable to forget just how dangerous it is to support unions in their home country
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 00:00
Eight long years after Colombian trade union leaders Valmore Locarno Rodriguez and Victor Hugo Orcasita Amaya were assassinated, those directly responsible for these heinous crimes are being punished
Sunday, March 8, 2009 - 00:00
Lina Paola Malagon, an attorney at the Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ), received by fax a detailed death threat signed by the Black Eagles, a paramilitary group
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 00:00
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill stood strong in insisting there will be no deal until the government of Colombia adequately addresses the violence against trade unionists, brings the perpetrators to justice and brings its labor laws into compliance with interna