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Labor Activist Leaves Legacy of Strengthening Global Worker Rights
… and a great partner and ally for unions and working families. He pioneered some of the earliest campaign strategies to improve workers’ rights in the apparel, cut flowers and banana industries in Central America, Ecuador and Colombia. He … trade could be fair if it did not include enforceable rights for all workers throughout the supply chain. His advocacy led to concrete improvements in the lives of thousands of workers, including many who worked under terrible sweatshop conditions. … the Americas. From 2006 to 2007 he wrote a report on workers’ rights in Colombia that was released by the AFL-CIO. His work documented the ongoing violence in the country and provided the basis for a strong critique of the proposed Colombia …