Executive Council Statement
Building Clean Energy Jobs in the Global Solar Supply Chain
… For years, the Chinese government has carried out a systematic and widespread campaign to detain and persecute millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic and Muslim people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region … demonstrate the government’s mass detention, torture, forced labor and cultural persecution of Turkic Muslims amount to crimes against humanity. The AFL-CIO remains particularly concerned by the government’s systemic use of forced labor, which is known to pervade the global solar energy industry. The sector’s dependence on China for primary materials and manufacturing makes …