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Support Flower Workers This Mother’s Day

Today’s the deadline to show your solidarity with working mothers who cut and process the flowers we send on Mother’s Day.

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AFL-CIO Remains Opposed to Colombia Trade Deal

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued the following statement today on the Obama administration’s intention to send a U.S.-Colombia Trade Agreement to Congress for a vote.

We are deeply disappointed that the Obama administration has signaled that it will move forward to submit the proposed U.S.-Colombia Trade Agreement to Congress for a vote in the near future.  In our view, the situation in Colombia remains unacceptably violent for trade unionists, as well as for human rights defenders and other vulnerable populations. In addition, Colombian workers face enormous and indefensible legal and practical hurdles in exercising their rights to organize unions and bargain collectively.

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