The U.S.-Colombia Labor Action Plan: Real Progress or Empty Promises?

The Washington Office on Latin America cordially invites you to a brown bag lunch on…
 
The U.S.-Colombia Labor Action Plan:
Real Progress or Empty Promises?
 
featuring:

Senator Alexander Lopez Maya
Second Vice President of the Colombian Senate

Tarsicio Mora Godoy
President of the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Colombia (CUT)

Jorge Ivan Velez Calvo
President of SINTRAEMCALI

Thursday, January 26, 2012
12:30 p.m.  – 2:00 p.m.
Washington Office on Latin America
1666 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC

Simultaneous interpretation from Spanish to English will be available.

In order to confirm your attendance, please contact Anthony Dest at adest@wola.org

In April 2011, Presidents Barack Obama and Juan Manuel Santos signed the U.S.-Colombia Labor Action Plan (LAP) in order to address serious labor rights concerns in Colombia. The promises made in the LAP facilitated the October 12 approval of the U.S.-Colombia FTA in the U.S. Congress.

This panel of esteemed Colombian labor rights leaders will analyze the implementation of the LAP and the current state of labor rights in Colombia. They will also discuss the hunger strike involving SINTRAEMCALI workers in Cali, in addition to obstacles to labor organizing faced by workers in the port, oil palm, oil, and sugar sectors.