On July 16, Kyungshin-Lear, a car parts manufacturing company with a factory in Honduras, fired three of nine newly elected union leaders. Within the following days, we have learned from our colleagues at the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center that the remaining six of the nine newly elected union leaders also were fired. Since January 2012, Kyungshin-Lear has fired 26 union leaders, with the company's most recent illegal firing of all nine union leaders in April 2013, and then in July, firing the nine union leaders who had been recently elected to replace the fired leaders from April.

On Monday, July 29, France’s trade minister Nicole Bricq called for increased transparency in U.S.-European Union trade negotiations, also known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), through a statement to the French newspaper Liberation.