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CAFTA

Labor Protections and CAFTA, USLEAP Fact Sheet, released Nov 2010

DR-CAFTA and Worker's Rights: Moving from Paper to Practice, released in May 2009 by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)

2008 CAFTA Complaint (filed by Guatemalan unions and AFL-CIO)

AFL-CIO and Central American Union CAFTA statement (2005)

AFL-CIO Statement on CAFTA-Related Job Loss (2005)

Human Rights Watch analysis of CAFTA (March 2004)

Stop CAFTA Coalition

Washington Office on Latin America statement on CAFTA

Citizen Trade Campaign Statement on CAFTA (2005)

 

Colombia Free Trade Agreement

USLEAP Impunity Report on Colombia (released 2010)

USLEAP Impunity Report on Colombia (released 2009)

USLEAP Impunity Report on Colombia (released 2008)

USLEAP Impunity Fact Sheet (April 2011)

USLEAP Colombia FTA Talking Points (April 2011)

USLEAP Álvaro Uribe Talking Points (December 2010) 

USLEAP Blog: Charts, Marketing 101, and the Colombian FTA (June 2010)

Escuela Nacional Sindical: Critical Report of Colombia Labor Action Plan (October 2011)

Human Rights Watch letter to Colombian Attorney General (September 2011)

AFL-CIO Workers' Rights Report on Colombia (January 2008)

AFL-CIO and Colombian Trade Union statement on FTA

USLEAP written testimony against Colombia FTA (March 2004)
(read the oral testimony here)

US Trade Union Letter to Congress 2007

Afro-Colombian and Afro-Peruvian Letter on Colombia and Peru FTAs

Indigenous Letter on FTA

US Environmental Organization Letter on FTA

WOLA and Public Citizen Statement on FTA and Increased Violence and Drug Trafficking

 

US Congressional Letters on Colombia:

Post-FTA Vote

Senate Letter (December 2011)

House Monitoring Group Letter (November 2011)

Pre-FTA Agreement

Dear Colleague on Colombia 2005

Senate Letter 2005

 

Ecuador

AFL-CIO and Ecuadorian Trade Union statement on FTA (June 2004)

Human Rights Watch report, Tainted Harvest (April 2002)

U.S. Congressional letters on Ecuador and worker rights (2003,
2004, 2005)

Worker rights petitions (2003, 2004, 2005)

 

Peru Free Trade Agreement

AFL-CIO Letter to Congress (2007)

Change to Win Letter to Congress (2007)

 

Trade Agreements, Fast Track, Advocacy

Alliance for Responsible Trade

Citizen Trade Campaign

Global Trade Watch (Public Citizen)

TRADE Act (2009)

 

May 2007 Trade Deal

Labor Chapter Agreement

Human Rights Watch Analysis of Labor Deal

 

NAFTA (Mexico)

"Workers' Freedom of Association Under Attack in Mexico," Solidarity Center Policy Brief, August 2008

Citizen Trade Campaign

Global Trade Watch (Public Citizen)

Mexico Labor Law Reform (Human Rights Watch Statement,
Dec. 2004)

Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Mexico (Solidarity Center, 2003)
NAO 2005 Complaint

United Electrical Workers Mexico News

 

Guatemala

The Struggle for Worker Rights in Guatemala, released June 2009 by the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center

Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights released on June 2009 by the International Trade Union Confederation's (ITUC)

DR-CAFTA and Worker's Rights: Moving from Paper to Practice, released in May 2009 by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)

2008 CAFTA Complaint (filed by Guatemalan unions and AFL-CIO)

2005 USLEAP/WOLA Worker Rights Petition

2003 Worker Rights Petition

US Congressional Letters on Guatemala:

Congressional Letter Addressing Worker Rights Violations and Trade Union Violence (regarding 2008 CAFTA complaint) 2009

 

Trade Programs

Trade Conditions and Labor Rights: U.S. Initiatives, Dominican and Central America Responses, by Henry J. Frundt (1998: University Press of Florida, Gainesville) 

 

Trade: Alternative Models and Approaches

Development Gap

Hemispheric Social Alliance

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

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