Liana Foxvog, National Organizer, SweatFree Communities As the financial and employment crisis deepens, it is crucial that we respond by addressing the causal roots of the mess. Multinational corporations have undermined local economies with the help of lax government regulations and trade agreement...

By Shanika Yapa, ILRF intern "We should all be able to walk into a shop and feel that the clothes we buy have been produced without damaging the environment or using poor labor practices, and that we will be able to reuse and recycle them when we no longer want them. I'm delighted that so many fashi...

By Lupita Aguila, Program Coordinator, USLEAP While many Americans celebrated St. Valentine’s Day with their loved ones, flower workers who were working on average up to 12 hours a day leading up to the holiday met this past Wednesday evening at their union office in Facatativa, Colombia, a 90-min...

Tim Newman, Campaigns Assistant, International Labor Rights Forum We have written several blog posts here about Russell's violations of the right to union organizing in Honduras.  Because of its abuses in Honduras, Russell ended up on ILRF's list of corporations that violate freedom of association....

By Brian Campbell, International Labor Rights Forum Atty. Remigio Saladero, chief legal counsel for the KMU in the Philippines, will be released today by  order of the Philippines Regional Trial Court in Calapan City. Atty. Saladero’s family and friends are on their way to Mindoro now to get him....

By Liz Leicht, ILRF intern Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America details the story of Barbara Ehrenreich (Author), trying to support herself in a white collar job. She finds positions in different cities around the country waitressing, cleaning, in retail etc. One job she holds is at WalM...

By Briana Connors, ILRF intern To many people, the term “sweatshop� refers to hidden factories in far away third world countries where workers have few rights and are underpaid. What many people don’t realize is that those types of factories also exist right here in the US, often closer to hom...

By Martha Guarnieri, ILRF intern What is self-interest? As a student in the United States, is it only my responsibility to be concerned with myself? The short answer to this is obviously “no�. However, without thinking, my self-interest expands to my family, my friends, my community, my state, m...

Bama Athreya, Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum Do Members of Congress have the right to hold private, closed-door briefings at the behest of industry lobbyists, and to exclude legitimate human rights groups from even sitting in the audience to hear what is said?  Are we naiv...

Tim Newman, Campaigns Assistant, International Labor Rights Forum Today (June 12th) is World Day Against Child Labor!  This annual event was started by the International Labor Organization in 2002 to highlight the plight of the millions of children around the world who are exposed to the worst ...