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...

Labor activist Jonathan Tasini over at the Working Life Blog makes a good point when he says: [N]o one is against trade. Trade has taken place since the beginning of human history. The only question is what RULES we put in place to manage trade. The issue of so-called "free trade" and, by extension,...

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....

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 ...

Tim Newman, Campaigns Assistant, International Labor Rights Forum Everyone knows that smoking cigarettes is bad for your health, but did you know that it also harms children and workers involved in growing tobacco?  A new article by Pilirani Semu-Banda published by our friends at CorpWatch focu...