Trade Resources

CAFTA

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)
International Labor Rights Fund testimony on CAFTA (April 2005)
Stop CAFTA Coalition
Washington Office on Latin America statement on CAFTA
Citizen Trade Campaign Statement on CAFTA (2005)

Colombia Free Trade Agreement

USLEAP Analysis of Impunity for Union Murders
USLEAP April 08 Talking Points Critiquing Progress on Violence and Impunity
AFL-CIO Web Page on Colombia FTA
AFL-CIO Workers' Rights Report on Colombia (January 2008)
AFL-CIO and Colombian Trade Union statement on FTA
Colombian government report on violence (April 2007)
Colombian government report on impunity(April 2007)
USLEAP written testimony against Colombia FTA (March 2004)
(read the oral testimony here)
US Trade Union Letter to Congress 2007

US Congressional Letters on Colombia:

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)

Fast-track, Trade Agreements

Alliance for Responsible Trade
Citizen Trade Campaign
Global Trade Watch (Public Citizen)

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

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

2005 USLEAP/WOLA Worker Rights Petition

2003 Worker Rights Petition

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