Solidarity Center News: Three Years After Haiti Earthquake, Workers Still Need Jobs
Friday, January 18, 2013
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Three years after the disastrous earthquake struck Haiti, workers and their
families continue to struggle as the cost-of-living keeps
rising while wages—for those who have jobs—remain the same. The
Solidarity Center has joined with Haitian unions and worker rights organizations
in calling for decent employment, living wages, safe working conditions and the
right to form unions without retaliation so that Haitian workers can support
their families and help their country recover. The Solidarity Center initiated a
new program that works toward these goals, with a specific focus on organizing
in the textile sector. Read more at the Solidarity Center. - photo:
Dominican union truck drivers deliver supplies to Haitian workers in
Port-au-Prince; photo by Cathy Feingold