April 11, 2012 --
President Obama is planning to give a thumbs up on the Colombian government’s efforts to address worker rights violations, violence and impunity and announce this week that the U.S. will implement the Free Trade Agreement passed by the U.S.
March 8, 2012 --
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.
February 17, 2012 --
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.
February 10, 2012 --
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.
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