Over two dozen Honduran trade unions joined by the AFL-CIO this week filed a labor complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor charging the Honduran government with violating the labor provisions of the Dominican-Republic Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).

The complaint focuses on violations in manufacturing, agricultural, and port operations.

An investigative report released today, International Women’s Day, found that 85% of the largely female workforce in the Honduran melon industry are not paid the legal minimum wage; 20% of women surveyed reported having to take a pregnancy test before being hired; 100% of workers surveyed were on temporary contracts.  

The slow-moving massacre of the largest private sector union in Guatemala took another life on February 5 when Miguel Angel González Ramírez, a member of the Izabal banana workers' union, was shot while he was holding his son.

This Valentine’s Day, take action to support flower workers in Colombia who tend, cut, pack, and ship flowers to consumers in the U.S.  Flower workers, most of whom are women, are right now working 16- to 18-hour days for poverty-level wages to send flowers to the U.S.

On December 8, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sent to the Obama Administration a letter with 18 other U.S.

In a March 2, 2012 letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the AFL-CIO, Autoworkers, Steelworkers, Teamsters and a half dozen other U.S. unions joined together urging Congress to send a firm message to the Obama Administration calling for a suspension of military and police aid to Honduras because of on-going human rights abuses.  

The Tri-National Solidarity Alliance in solidarity with independent unions in Mexico and global union federations, is organizing a week-long International Days of Action in support of worker rights in Mexico, from February 16-25, 2012.   

In a remarkable end-of-year victory, Congress conditioned 20% of U.S.

Sending a strong signal to the Colombian government as well as to the Obama Administration, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and seven key members of Congress have formed a Congressional Monitoring Group on Labor Rights in Colombia “to ensure that progress is made on labor rights in the coming months.”