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The United Methodist Church has divested from Corrections Corporation of America and the Geo Group!
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Enlace, in partnership with community groups and unions across the US, is calling on all public and private institutions to divest their holdings in Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, America’s largest private prison corporations which have profited from billions in taxpayer money. Watch the Campaign Video.
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The Enlace Institute’s Peer Trainer Program, is showing a 41% increase in enrolled participants in its second two-year training series.
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Worker Strike in Longing Plant
http://peninsulardigital.com/municipios/chinos-explotadores-en-santa-rosalia/
*article is only available in spanish
Seafood Worker Fight: New Article and Photos
Read the article by Virginia Sole-Smith which was published in The Progressive titled Mexico’s Squid Sweatshop and the photos taken by photojournalist Elizabeth Moreno.
Seafood Workers participate in annual meeting of the Secretary of Fisheries
On May 21st SINTTIM, the independent union that is fighting for illegally fired workers and to reform the squid industry, participated for the first time in a meeting to negotiate the price of squid with the Secretary of Fisheries and industry employers. This meeting takes place every year to review salaries of fishermen and seafood processing workers; they also study the current market price for squid and decide to increase or lower the price paid per pound. Participating in this meeting gave the workers a great opportunity to start reforming the squid industry so that they can secure just wages for all workers in this sector.
Seafood Workers published in The Progressive
Download the full article by Virginia Sole-Smith which was published in The Progressive’s May 2010 issue titled Mexico’s Squid Sweatshop.
Watch the Justice for Seafood Workers Video!
Hear the stories of the Seafood Workers and their Fight for Justice
Seafood Workers in Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Summary of 2009
The Seafood Workers Justice Campaign has been a collaboration between SINTTIM (the independent maquiladoras workers union in Baja California Sur), CISSLABORAL (a research, education, and legal support center for workers in La Paz), and Enlace.
CECILIA VERDUGO: ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE SEAFOOD WORKER JUSTICE FIGHT PASSES AWAY
In October 2009 we lost a great leader, Cecilia Verdugo passed away from natural causes in Santa Rosalia. She was just 47 years old and leaves behind her husband and 3 children. Cecilia was a key person in the fight for seafood workers alongside Rosa and other leaders that were illegally terminated from the squid processing plant by HANJIN.
Hurricane destroys seafood workers houses
In September 2009 Hurricane Jimena hit Baja California Sur and destroyed many homes, including that of our compañera Rosa Ceseña Ramírez, secretary general of SINTTIM and unjustly fired Hanjin México worker. Many of you know Rosa, so we are asking for your cooperation to help Rosa and her family in this difficult time. Rosa did not ask us to send this request. We the Enlace staff offered to do it.
July International Synchronized Action
In late January 2009 we launched a boycott of Hanjin and Taemin products, sending letters to Korean markets asking them to stop doing business with Hanjin and Taemin until the labor conflict between Hanjin and Seafood Workers in Santa Rosalia, BCS, Mexico, is justly resolved. We have reached an agreement with Galleria, HK, California, and City Market in Koreatown; these markets will stop doing business with Hanjin.
ILO Complaint
CISSLABORAL and SINTTIM have submitted a complaint with the International Labor Organization (ILO). The complaint is only available in spanish at the following website: http://lacasadeltrabajador.blogspot.com/2009/05/cisslaboral-y-sinttim-presentan-queja.html