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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...
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AFL-CIO Stands with Brazilian Workers and Democracy

Over the last few months, right-wing forces in Brazil have seized the opening created by a failing economy and corruption investigations involving all political parties to suspend a democratically elected...