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The U.S. Needs to Do More to Protect Basic Labor Rights in Honduras

On Oct. 15, 2018 the United States Department of Labor issued a “progress” report on the Honduran government’s implementation of an action plan (MAP) negotiated between the parties in 2015. The MAP was developed in response to a complaint filed by the AFL-CIO, Honduran unions and Honduran nongovernmental organizations under the Central American Free Trade Agreement’s (CAFTA) labor chapter in 2012, which included cases concerning child labor, illegally low pay and denial of the right to organize and to bargain. The U.S. government had found that nearly every claim in the petition was supported by the evidence and that the Honduran government had in fact routinely failed to enforce its laws.
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Global Action for Local Power

In St. Louis, representatives from over forty countries gathered with U.S. unions and their allies to discuss strategies to build global power for workers from local workplaces to worldwide supply chains.
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A Global Supply Chain Still Built on Worker Misery: The Garment Industry in Bangladesh

Nearly five years after the torture and assassination of Bangladeshi labor leader Aminul Islam, the country's garment-sector employers and the government continue to persecute workers who try to exercise basic...
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Five Reasons Colombia Is Violating Its Trade Agreement with the U.S.

On July 15, the U.S. government accepted a complaint saying that Colombia is failing working families in violation of its commitments in the U.S.–Colombia Trade Agreement.
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Workers at Global Labor Meeting Protest the Removal of Brazil's Democratically Elected President

Workers from many countries this week made clear they reject the process in Brazil to remove democratically elected president Dilma Rousseff. Workers from around the world unite every June at...
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Black Trade Unionists Call on Obama to Condemn Coup and Support Brazil’s Democratically Elected Government

On May 29, the 45th annual convention of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists voted unanimously to support democracy and denounce what activists around the world are calling a legislative...