AFL-CIO took a strong stand against the U.S.-Colombia Trade Agreement that is being aggressively pursued by the Obama administration. The trade agreement has been on hold because of the high level of assassinations. Specifically, 2,850 trade unionists have been assassinated in Colombia in the last 25 years, including 52 murdered in 2009. The AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka called out the President on the trade agreement, stating ““we have no doubt that if 51 CEOs had been murdered in Colombia last year, this deal would be on a very slow track indeed.”
Read Trumka’s full statement on the ILWU web site at this link