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 The Solidarity Center and its partners are assisting Haitian workers and their families who have lost homes, jobs, and loved ones in the wake of the January 12 earthquake. Please donate now to the Solidarity Center’s Earthquake Relief for Haitian Workers campaign. Read the most recent update from the Solidarity Center's Cathy Feingold, on the ground in Haiti. |
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As a commitment to help union members in Haiti, the AFL-CIO's Union Plus program has offered to match individual donations to our Earthquake Relief for Haitian Workers Fund dollar-for-dollar, made for any amount, either by credit card or by check. Donors need not be Union Plus members. The offer will stand until we reach $100,000 in donations.
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 Members of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) are vowing to fight as long as it takes to defeat the government’s heavy-handed, anti-union moves to break its independent union. "Our action is an action for all workers, SME Interior Secretary Humberto Montes de Oca told U.S. unionists in Washington, DC. "We are resolved to go on until we get respect for our workers." |
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 More than 2,500 trade unionists, political and human rights activists, and government representatives gathered in a Cairo suburb to celebrate the first anniversary of the 37,000-member Real Estate Tax Authority union (RETA), Egypt’s first independent union. RETA’s brief history has been fraught with struggle, but members were upbeat, chanting, "The Real Estate Tax Authority union is the symbol of our rights and freedoms. An independent union is the path to freedom for all." |
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 Twenty years ago, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. Today, on International Migrants Day, the Solidarity Center joins the global labor movement’s campaign challenging countries to end abuse of migrants around the world by ratifying this convention. |
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 Through its regional and thematic programs in more than 60 countries, the Solidarity Center and its partners strive every day to hasten the success of union heroes and their allies in other worker rights organizations throughout the developing world as they struggle to build independent and effective unions. Our 2009 Annual Report highlights the many innovative ways in which our partners are responding to the global economic crisis. |
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 The Solidarity Center joins with the global labor movement in commemorating International Human Rights Day. We pay tribute to all human rights defenders, including the many brave trade unionists struggling to defend worker rights—human rights in the workplace. Learn more about the Solidarity Center’s worker and human rights programs. |
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 Today is World AIDS Day, and global union members are reinforcing their commitment to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, which has infected 33 million people worldwide and more than 1 million in the United States. Around the world, the pandemic has devastated workers and their families, shattered communities, and reversed the rise in work and living standards. Learn more about the Solidarity Center's HIV/AIDS programs. |
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 The Solidarity Center joins the global trade union movement in mourning the death of Neil Kearney, general secretary of the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation (ITGLWF). Through challenging times in the global textile, garment, and leather industry, he remained steadfast in his belief that these changes were no excuse for exploiting workers and denying their rights to join a union. |
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 Solidarity Center partners SITRAJERZEESH and the Honduran General Confederation of Workers signed a landmark agreement with Russell Athletic/Fruit of the Loom, Inc., the largest private employer in Honduras. The signing ended a year-long campaign protesting the controversial closure of the company’s Jerzees de Honduras apparel factory. |
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 Despite indications that the economy is on the rebound, the International Labor Organization in its latest study on global wages says that income for workers worldwide is likely to decrease further in 2009. In an update to its Global Wage Report, the ILO said the increase in average wages in a sampling of 53 developed and developing countries fell from 4.3 percent in 2007 to 1.4 percent in 2008 and is likely to fall even further. |
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 Since July 12, thousands of members of the United Steelworkers (USW) who work in mines and smelters in Ontario, Canada for the Brazilian multinational company Vale have been on strike. Meanwhile, Vale workers throughout Brazil are struggling to hold on to jobs, achieve minimum standards for safe working conditions, and guarantee basic worker rights.
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