New Website Provides Most Comprehensive Worker Rights Info to Spanish-Speaking Workers http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/enespanol 

 A comprehensive new Spanish-language website, AFL-CIO en Español, offers online information about issues affecting Latino working people, unions and the AFL-CIO.

“With AFL-CIO en Español, we are making vital information about workplace rights more accessible to Spanish speakers,” said AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson. “As our nation's workplaces become more diverse it is important that we find new ways of communicating with workers on issues most important to them.”

AFL-CIO en Español is a powerful new tool for Spanish-speaking men and women. It is designed to educate Spanish speakers on workers’ rights and strengthen grassroots action, while providing a new resource to members of the media. Website topics include:

· Rights on the job;
· Health and safety laws;
· Wage and hour laws;
· Immigration reform and immigrant workplace rights;
· Worker organizing;
· AFL-CIO political mobilization efforts;
· Economy/Jobs and
· Information on the recent partnership signed by the AFL-CIO and NDLON - the largest network of worker centers in the country serving low-wage, overwhelmingly immigrant workers.

AFL-CIO en Español adds a dynamic new element to the AFL-CIO’s online presence, which already includes a popular website, blog and a network of over half a million online activists. The AFL-CIO blog and website draw about 400,000 monthly visitors.

AFL-CIO en Español can be accessed at http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/enespanol

Contact: Esmeralda Aguilar (202) 637-5018