Murders of Latin American labor leaders anger unions and lawmakers
Murders of Latin American labor leaders anger unions and lawmakers
November 26, 2019 2:39 PM CST BY PAI
CWA President Chris Shelton, at microphone, joined by Congressman Chuy García at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol to call for stronger labor standards in Trump's revised NAFTA bill. | CWA
WASHINGTON (PAI)—It’s still not safe to be a labor leader in Latin America, and that has Communications Workers President Chris Shelton, the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center, and four pro-worker U.S. House Democrats hopping mad.
As a result, all of them are demanding impartial investigations and changes in U.S. policy in response to the killings.
The most recent of the murders, and the most relevant, occurred in Mexico in the last several weeks, according to Shelton, Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, D-Ill., and their allies.
Three labor leaders at Mexico’s Media Luna gold mine were murdered by anti-union vigilantes and a fourth, Oscar Hernández Romero, “disappeared,” they told a Nov. 20 Capitol Hill press conference/ protest.
Those murders and the disappearance occurred even as GOP President Donald Trump continues to push for quick congressional passage of legislation to implement the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), his so-called “free trade” replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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