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Guatemalan Workers Still Wait for Justice

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Global-Action/Guatemalan-Workers-Still-Wait-for-Justice

The AFL-CIO and Guatemalan labor unions first filed a labor complaint under the Central America Free Trade Agreement in 2008. In the nearly five years since the complaint was filed, the situation for workers has not improved. They still struggle to organize their workplaces without retribution, they still fight to receive the pay promised for work performed and they continue to be targeted with violence, including murder, for standing up for the most basic of internationally recognized labor rights. The International Trade Union Confederation reports that 10 unionists were murdered there in 2011—the most recent year for whic...