Over 100 members of Congress have pledged support for a new approach to U.S. trade policy and new rules for the global economy. A growing list of cosponsors of the TRADE Act, introduced on June 24, 2009 by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rep.

Shortly after two major contract victories on Dole flower plantations in Colombia in July, Dole Fresh Flowers announced plans to sell its global flower operations.

Despite a heavy last minute push by the Bush Administration, the Colombian government, and editorial boards across the country, in addition to hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on lobbyists,

Last year, Colombia once more led the world in the number of trade unionists murdered, according to a survey released November 20, 2008 by the Brussels-based International Trade Union Confederati