Press Release
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: “Colombia Continues to Deny Basic Labor Rights, Must Continue Labor Action Plan”
… “The 2011 Labor Action Plan (LAP) was agreed to by the U.S. and Colombian governments as a requirement for implementing the free trade agreement between the two … into effect, the LAP remains largely unfulfilled, leaving Colombian workers in danger and unprotected when they attempt to organize and act together to improve their conditions of work. We are calling on the U.S. government to tell Colombian Labor Minister, Luis Garzon that our government will not agree …