A subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis formed by members of the new United States Congress has launched an investigation into widespread Covid-19 cases and deaths in several of that country’s meatpacking plants.
Black storms stir the air
World | HEALTH | HR The pandemic and the spells of capitalism Black storms stir the air To such an …
The Pineapple Republic
When those elected by the people to lead and manage government institutions renounce their most basic duties and responsibilities, such as protecting human life, and do so to safeguard and promote the economic interests of a sycophantic1 elite and of multinational corporations, they rightfully earn the epithet “serial social killers.”
The teacher Rommel Baldemar has been deprived of his liberty arbitrarily for 480 days
Honduras | HR | PRESS RELEASE The teacher Rommel Baldemar has been deprived of his liberty arbitrarily for 480 days …
A decision that ruins thousands of workers
The banana industry is one of the leading activities in Latin America because of the level of labor it requires.
Chiquita: Verde e amarela
In the distinctly agro-industrial region of northern Costa Rica, devoted primarily to pineapple and banana crops, more than 200 Chiquita Brands workers were illegally dismissed so that the transnational corporation could evict them and demolish their houses. We spoke about this with Didier Leitón Valverde, general secretary of the Union of Agricultural Plantation Workers (SITRAP).
Solidarity with Odilia!
The League joins IUF Latin America to stand in solidarity with Odilia Caal Có, General Secretary of her factory union SITRAWinners-FESTRAS in Guatemala.
FESTRAS union leader brutally beaten
Odilia Caal Có, local leader in a branch of the IUF-affiliated Federación Sindical de Trabajadores de la Alimentación y Afines Servicios y Similares (FESTRAS) was brutally beaten earlier this month in an attack which left her with multiple injuries including a broken rib. The attack took place in an export processing zone (maquiladora) on the premises of Winners Textil.
We are all Odilia Caal Có
Odilia Caal Có, general secretary of the Winner Workers’ Union (Sitrawinner), was held against her will in the offices of the company, where she was beaten and threatened until she signed a statement withdrawing from the union. The Korean-owned Winners Textil maquiladora company makes clothes for several companies that are very well-known around the globe. In that microcosm, labor persecution is characterized by brutally violent practices and vicious harassment.
Faces in the smoke
Impunity, greed, economic, social, and political terrorism perpetrated by criminal elites, foolishness, hypocrisy, and ignorance—these are the real fuels igniting the Amazon fires. The forest is being consumed in those fires, along with thousands of human beings whose lives are deemed to be worth less than the spark that sets off the fires.