Trade: What We Have Done

What We Have Done, with Support

• helped keep the Colombia Free Trade Agreement from coming to a vote, in part by providing continuing documentation on violence and impunity
• helped win labor law reform, new labor courts, and increases in the minimum wage in Guatemala
• helped win first convictions for violence against trade unionists in Guatemala
• won legal recognition of trade unions in clothing factories in Central America
• helped win a delay in implementing "race to the bottom" rules for the banana trade
• helped put reform labor law in Ecuador on the political agenda for both the U.S. and Ecuadorian governments
• submitted worker rights petitions on Guatemala and Ecuador and backed complaints filed on Mexico
• testified before the U.S. Trade Representative
• organized fact-finding delegations to Guatemala, Ecuador, and Colombia

and more.