News Links tagged {Colombia} "Labor Rights"
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights |
| Title: | Colombia: el pais mas peligroso para ser sindicalista |
| Author/Source: | Arturo Wallace BBC Mundo |
| Brief: | Despues de todo, el numero de sindicalistas asesinados en Colombia desde 2002 a la fecha ya suma 791 muertos. |
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Death Threats Remain Rampant Under Obama's Colombia FTA |
| Author/Source: | Lori Wallach The Huffington Post |
| Brief: | Shame on the Obama administration: Two years after it announced its "Labor Action Plan" to grease passage of a Bush-negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA), death threats against Colombian unionists persist |
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Economy And Security, Labor Rights |
| Title: | Levantada huelga en Cerrejon |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La huelga deja mas de 172 mil 800 millones de pesos en perdidas |
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights |
| Title: | Labor Violence in Colombia |
| Author/Source: | David Macaray The Huffington Post |
| Brief: | Because Colombia has convinced the U.S. that the trio of Government-Military-Business represents the only hope of defeating the cartels, we ignore the systematic violence being directed against unions |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights |
| Title: | Labor Violence in Colombia |
| Author/Source: | David Macaray The Huffington Post |
| Brief: | Because Colombia has convinced the U.S. that the trio of Government-Military-Business represents the only hope of defeating the cartels, we ignore the systematic violence being directed against unions |
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights |
| Title: | Agricultura, mineria y servicio domestico, los que mas explotan ninez |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Como ilegal e inconveniente califico el ministro de Trabajo, Rafael Pardo, la existencia de 1,7 millones de ninos y adolescentes que trabajan de forma informal y riesgosa en el pais |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights |
| Title: | Aumenta el trabajo infantil en Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Mientras en el 2011 habia una tasa del 13%, actualmente el 15,4% de los ninos colombianos estan laborando |
Monday, February 25, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | La Guajira |
| Title: | Attackers blow up trucks at Colombia's biggest coal exporter |
| Author/Source: | Jack Kimball Reuters |
| Brief: | Cerrejon - a joint venture between Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata - said it had suffered "a terrorist attack" at its Mina Sur mining area in the northern province of Guajira |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | La Guajira |
| Title: | Trucks Attacked With Explosives Amid Colombia Mine Strike |
| Author/Source: | Jonathan Levin Bloomberg |
| Brief: | Workers at Cerrejon, the world's largest export-focused, open-pit coal mine, walked off the job Feb. 7 in part to demand a pay raise |
Friday, February 8, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Cauca |
| Title: | Bala en vez de negociacion |
| Author/Source: | Alvaro Delgado Arco Iris (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Los corteros de la cana de azucar volvieron al escenario. El 29 de enero pasado ocurrio el ultimo episodio de una serie de ultrajes contra los trabajadores del Ingenio La Cabana (Puerto Tejada, Cauca) |
Thursday, February 7, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Justice System, Labor Rights, Labor Unions |
| Title: | Ejemplar condena por crimen de dos sindicalistas del Cesar |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El juez sentencio a 480 meses de prision (38 anos) a Jaime Blanco Maya, contratista de la multinacional, por los delitos de homicidio agravado y concierto para delinquir. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Labor Rights |
| Colombia Category: | Economy And Security, Justice System, Labor Rights, Labor Unions |
| Title: | Murder conviction in Drummond union leader slaying |
| Author/Source: | Libardo Cardona Associated Press The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | A former contractor for the U.S.-based coal company Drummond Co. has been convicted of murder and sentenced to nearly 38 years in prison as the mastermind of the 2001 killing of two union leaders. |
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights |
| Title: | Mayor central sindical Colombia denuncia amenazas de muerte por paramilitares |
| Author/Source: | EFE El Nacional (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Colombia (CUT), la principal asociacion sindical del pais, denuncio hoy amenazas de muerte por un supuesto grupo armado que los declaro "objetivos militares" |
Thursday, December 6, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Labor Rights |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights |
| Title: | Canada's Pacific Rubiales 'abuses Colombian workers' rights' |
| Author/Source: | Zach Edling Colombia Reports |
| Brief: | Rodolfo Vecino told Colombia Reports that the Canadian-based oil company Pacific Rubiales created a union "called UTEL...which was assembled...to hinder the negotiation process that had been going on with USO." |
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Labor Rights |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights |
| Title: | GM's Hunger Games |
| Author/Source: | Adam Schaffer, Gimena Sanchez-Garzoli The American Prospect |
| Brief: | The hunger strike is just the latest in a long history of labor tensions in Colombia. |
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights |
| Title: | Colombia coal rail workers vote to end strike, union cries foul |
| Author/Source: | Jack Kimball Reuters |
| Brief: | The union-which has more than 200 members-said only union leaders could stop the strike and called on the company to make concrete proposals to end the walkout. |
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Free Trade, Labor Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, Labor Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Assault on Colombian Trade Unions Continues Unabated |
| Author/Source: | Carey L. Biron Inter Press Service |
| Brief: | According to a new report by the AFL-CIO, of those 37 points, at least nine have yet to be adopted, while the implementation of several others "can be regarded as partial or insufficient". |
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Colombia, Labor Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Members of Congressional Monitoring Group on Labor Rights in Colombia Send Letter to President Obama |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | George Miller, the senior Democratic member of the Education and the Workforce Committee, joined other members of the Congressional Monitoring Group on Labor Rights in Colombia in sending a letter to President Obama last week expressing concern. |
Friday, May 25, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Labor Rights, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Valle del Cauca |
| Title: | Gunman misses Colombia union leader, kills brother |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press |
| Brief: | Two other leaders of the union, known as SINTRAEMCALI, received death threats last month signed by The Black Eagles, a far-right militia, inviting them to their own funerals. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Labor Rights, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Valle del Cauca |
| Title: | Van cinco hechos violentos contra sindicalistas en el Valle |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Sin importar el origen de esos crimenes, preocupa que en una region como el Valle donde abundan las organizaciones sindicales y los conflictos laborales con sus empleadores, los activistas se conviertan en el blanco. |