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COLSIBA / Del Monte / SEIU Local / Congressional Monitoring Group / Costco / Adidas / Whole Foods / Nike / Wal-Mart / Phillips-Van Heusen / General Motors / Americas AFL-CIO Solidarity Center / Substandard Laws / Dole / UAW Noel Beasley / Key U.S. / VF Corporation / Johnson Controls / Camposol / /
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Europe / Asia / North America / /
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Nicaragua / Ecuador / Guatemala / Peru / Honduras / Colombia / Japan / Panama / Canada / Australia / Mexico / New Zealand / Chile / Brunei / Indonesia / Malaysia / El Salvador / United States / Vietnam / Singapore / South Korea / /
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Person Communication and Meetings / Business Partnership / Labor Issues / / /
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labor law deficiencies / timilar law / law deficiencies / labor law / supply chain / labor-intensive products / large agribusiness firms / /
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Atlantic coast / /
Organization
Cornell School of Industrial / Labor / U.S. government / Global Strategies International Brotherhood of Teamsters Secretary-Treasurer Douglas S. Meyer Deputy Director International / Rainforest Rainforest Alliance / Coordination / Americas Project / ACTWU / UNITE / Peruvian government / Obama Administration / Teamsters Labor Council for Latin American Advancement Landau Family Foundation New Society Fund Rothschild Foundation SEIU United Auto Workers United Steelworkers UNITE HERE May Day Labor Delegation / Rainforest Alliance / International Union League for Brand Responsibility / AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center / Honduran Plantation Alliance / Mexican government / Tri-National Solidarity Alliance / Colombian government / Labor Ministry / Bush Administration / International Ladies Garment Workers Union / Tripartite Women’s Committee of the Coordination of Latin American Banana Workers Unions / The U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project / CISPES / University of California Santa Cruz Judy Gearhart Executive Director International Labor Rights Forum Mark Levinson Chief Economist SEIU Molly McCoy Regional Program / Guatemalan government / U.S. embassy in Bogota / American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations / UN’s International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala / Prosecutor’s Office for Labor Rights / International Union of Foodworkers / SEIU Affiliate John Ruthrauff International Advocacy Director Interaction Hector Sanchez Executive Director Labor Council for Latin American Advancement / Agricultural Workers Union in Peru / Workers’ Support Centre / 21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund Center for Democratic Education International Brotherhood / /
Person
Dario Hoyos / Apoyo al Trabajador / Monte / Rocio Saenz / USLEAP USLEAP / José Enrique Morales Montaño / Anna Koob / Richard Trumka / Joe Pitts / Juan Carlos Perez Muñoz / Jose Lorenzo Obregon / Joel Gonzalez Perez / Lopez-Henriquez Labor Attorney / Tara Mathur / Alvaro Noboa / Yessika Hoyos / Marco Tulio Rameriz / Noe Ramirez / Marco Tulio Gonzalez / James McGovern / Jan Van Tol / Blanca Velasquez / Tim Beaty / Juan Carlos Perez / Chiquita Banana / Mia Fill / Brent Garren / Marco Tulio Ramirez / Rebecca Van Horn / Ollanta Humala / Juan Carlos Perez Munoz / John Kerry / Douglas S. Meyer / / /
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Flower worker / human rights lawyer / President / Director *Some organizations National Organizer United Students Against Sweatshops Stephen Coats Executive / Vice Chair / secretary / Secretary of State / leading worker / CAT Executive Director / Edgar Romney Secretary-Treasurer / producer for Chiquita / critical actor / Despite Stronger FTA Worker / Representative / union leader / board member / enforceable worker / Chair Board of Directors* / document detailing extensive worker / fundamental worker / strengthening worker / presidential candidate / leader / Director / Worker / General Secretary / Historian and Author / key leader / /
Quarterly newsletter of the U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project Spring 2013: Issue #1 Fighting for worker justice in the global economy