{"id":2621,"date":"2008-04-25T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2008-04-25T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T17:00:38","slug":"guatemalan-and-us-labor-call-out-worker-abuse-under-cafta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/04\/25\/guatemalan-and-us-labor-call-out-worker-abuse-under-cafta\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemalan and U.S. Labor Call Out Worker Abuse Under CAFTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest042508\/2008_04_25_lee.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest042508\/2008_04_25_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/alfa_soy\/pedrozamorra.jpg\" alt=\"Pedro Zamora - Guatemalan trade unionist killed\" \/><em>GUEST: Thea Lee, Policy Director at AFL-CIO<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an unprecedented move, six Guatemalan labor unions alongside the AFL-CIO filed a complaint this week citing violations of workers\u2019 rights under the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The Guatemalan government is being accused of failing to uphold agreed-upon labor provisions. Since the Central American nation signed on to CAFTA in 2006, eight trade unionists have been killed as others and their families intimidated with the threat of murder and rape. Guatemala\u2019s Ministry of Labor has failed to conduct thorough investigations &#8211; no arrests have been made in two union murders cited in the complaint. CAFTA was passed with labor and environmental provisions that critics contend are meaningless without enforcement. Now with the complaint filed by the unions, the Bush Administration will be asked to initiate dispute settlement proceedings as it seeks to pass a trade agreement with Colombia as well as expand NAFTA. If Guatemala is found to have failed in upholding its labor laws under the trade agreement, the government could face a 15 million dollar fine. <\/p>\n<p>To read more about the complaint, click on: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.aflcio.org\/2008\/04\/24\/afl-cio-guatemalan-unions-file-complaint-for-violations-of-labor-rights\/\">http:\/\/blog.aflcio.org\/2008\/04\/24\/afl-cio-guatemalan-unions-file-complaint-for-violations-of-labor-rights\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about AFL-CIO, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aflcio.org\">www.aflcio.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Thea Lee, Policy Director at AFL-CIO In an unprecedented move, six Guatemalan labor unions alongside the AFL-CIO filed a complaint this week citing violations of workers\u2019 rights under the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The Guatemalan government is being accused of failing to uphold agreed-upon labor provisions. Since the Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}