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Take Action to Protect Honduran Workers

In April, Delta Apparel – a US-based company – fired 40 workers with crippling musculoskeletal injuries from their factory in Honduras. There was outrage, an...

Witness for Peace Condemns the Attack of Union Organizers in Choluteca, Honduras

Witness for Peace Condemns the Attack of Union Organizers in Choluteca On April 15th, Moisés Sánchez and his brother, Misael, were brutally attacked by four ...

Human Trafficking: not an isolated phenomenon

by Sue Davis (WFP Mexico Program delegate) “If you promise a girl heaven, you can take her to hell.” (Quote from a human trafficker overheard by human rights...

Declaración de la caravana por la paz y la democrácia en Colombia / Statement from the Caravan for P

Feliz día internacional de l@s trabajadores! Hoy concluye nuestra serie de blog enfocada en el comercio. Queremos agradecer a tod@s su participación y aten...

“Enséñame a organizar”: Enfrentando las políticas neoliberales a nivel nacional e internacional

Por Celeste Larkin, Chicago Religious Leadership Network Llevo tres años viviendo en Chicago y, en este tiempo, la ciudad ha vivido muchos cambios en su econ...

“Teach me to organize:” confronting neoliberal economics at home and abroad

Celeste Larkin, Chicago Religious Leadership Network I’ve lived in Chicago for the past three years and, in that time, we’ve seen many changes to our local ...

Interview with a Nicaraguan Free Trade Zone Worker

By WfP Nicaragua Team “What I would like and what I hope for (my country) is that in every Free Trade Zone there be a union and that workers would not be mis...

The Impact of the TPP, Part One / El Impacto del TPP, Primera Parte

Español abajo Josh Wise, Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition For nearly five years now, government bureaucrats and lobbyists on both sides of the Pacific Ocean h...

The Human Face (and Price) of Trade

The Witness blog series is back! This month, Witness for Peace, in close collaboration with coalition partners in the United States and partners on the groun...

Labor Activists Mendoza and Galvis Under Attack

by Jessye Weinstein WFP Colombia Team Two trade union leaders in Barrancabermeja’s Coca Cola plant —William Mendoza, President of the local chapter of the Fo...

GM Workers Enter 4th Week on Hunger Strike with Growing International Support

By Austin Robles WFP Colombia Dozens of people protested in front of GM’s headquarters in Detroit last week, outraged at the company’s treatment of its Colom...

Labor Action Plan Monitoring Report

This is a Labor Action Plan Monitoring report done by Witness for Peace delegates and International Team this past July. It includes the on-the-ground labor ...

Fired GM Workers Commemorate Protest’s Anniversary with Hunger Strike

By Austin Robles WFP Colombia Minutes before he started to sew his mouth shut, Jorge Parra explained his rationale to me: “Essentially GM gave us a choice: t...

Workers of the Americas at Risk: The Cases of Wisconsin, Colombia, and Guatemala

by Carlos Cruz, Colombia Team The workers of the Americas are facing an all-out attack on their rights and their lives. The recent effort to recall Republica...

Systematic Threats Force Mexican Labor Rights Organization CAT to Close its Office

by Carlin Christy, WfP Mexico Repeated attacks including kidnapping and death threats have forced the members of The Center of Support for Workers (CAT) to c...

Car Bomb Explodes in Bogotá as Trade Accord Begins

By Austin Robles, WFP Colombia When I left the United States to do human rights work in Colombia, I knew the risks of entering the country with the world’s l...

First trade union member killed since FTA implementation announced

The packed room of port workers stood in silent commemoration of Daniel Aguirre, a man who dedicated his life to the struggle of the sugar cane cutters of Va...

Voices from the People’s Summit

By WFP Colombia Team As Presidents from across the Americas were getting set to gather for the Summit of the Americas April 14-15, social movements from acro...

General Motors in Colombia: the Free Trade Agreement, the Abuses, the Corruption and the Resistance

Jorge Parra, the President of the Association of Sick and Fired Workers Of General Motors Colombia (ASOTRECOL in Spanish), started his makeshift tent city wi...

Honduran Economy and the Coup

by the Witness for Peace Staff in Honduras In San Pedro Sula we met with several union leaders to discuss the impact the coup has had in the industrial capit...