Colombian Workers to Join U.S. Workers in Opposing the Colombia FTA

WASHINGTON, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Colombian union leaders and workers will join Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Rep. Michael Michaud, D-Maine, Communication Workers of America president Larry Cohen, and UNITE HERE general president Bruce Raynor for a news conference on Wednesday, May 14, at 11:00 a.m. ET, to highlight their opposition to the pending Colombia Free Trade Agreement.Colombia remains the most dangerous country in the world for union members. More than 2,500 workers have been murdered by Colombian death squads for trying to form unions since the 1980s, and there have been more than 400 murders since President Uribe took office five years ago. Yet the Colombian government has done nothing to effectively stop death squads from murdering workers for trying to form unions.

COLOMBIAN WORKERS STAND UNITED WITH U.S. WORKERS IN

OPPOSITION TO THE COLOMBIA FTA

DATE: Wednesday, May 14, 2008

TIME: 11:00 a.m. ET

LOCATION: Upper Senate Park (next to Russell Office Building)

Washington, D.C.

(In case of rain, 430 Cannon House Office Building)

PARTICIPANTS: Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio

Rep. Michael Michaud, D-Maine

Bruce Raynor, Gen. Pres., UNITE HERE

Larry Cohen, Pres., Comm. Workers of America

Luis Alfonso Velasquez Rico, Natl. Exec. Comm. member, Unitary Workers Center

Alba Lucia Campaz Cuero, Pres., Hospital Workers Union

Jorge Enrique Gamboa Caballero, Pres., Natl. Petroleum Workers Union

Segundo Ernesto Mora Mateus, Gen. Secretary, Bank Workers Union

Percy Oyola Paloma, Pres., Natl. Union of Telecommunications Workers

Evan Torro Lopez, Exec. Comm. member, Natl. Assoc. of Bank Workers

John Jairo Caicedo Villegas, Pres., Colombia Workers Union

About Change to Win

Change to Win is a partnership of seven unions and six million members founded in 2005 to organize workers of the new American economy. Change to Win is committed to restoring the American Dream so that all workers have a paycheck that can support a family, affordable health care, a secure and dignified retirement, and the opportunity for the next generation to be better off. The seven affiliated unions are: Service Employees International Union, UNITE HERE, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Laborers' International Union ofNorth America, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and United Farm Workers of America.

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