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labour | workers’ rights
TICFA at long last
| 19-June-2013
With the Cabinet’s nod to give it a go ahead, the proposed Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement (TICFA) between Bangladesh and the USA is almost through, awaiting to be signed at a convenient time by the two governments.
In whose interest is EU-India FTA being negotiated?
| 16-May-2013
NGOS, academics, patient groups, humanitarian organisations, trade unions, farmers groups and mass movements, representing hundreds of organisations and networks across the country, asked Mr. Anand Sharma, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, to explain to the nation which sectors and who exactly are benefiting from the FTA that is currently being negotiated with the European Union.
Bahrain hits back at claims over FTA
| 14-May-2013
Bahrain has hit back at accusations it could have breached its Free Trade Agreement with the US as regards workers’ rights.
Colombia: “TLC con Estados Unidos ha perjudicado a los trabajadores”: Alexander López
| 29-April-2013
Durante la Audiencia Pública que se realiza en la Ciudad de Cartagena, en donde se analiza la política de expansión de la locomotora minera y los derechos laborales de los trabajadores de este sector, el senador aseguró que el TLC con Estados Unidos a perjudicado a los trabajadores colombianos.
“TLC con EE.UU. y Colombia debe proteger a trabajadores”: Ana Sánchez
| 26-April-2013
“Hemos venido a analizar si el gobierno del presidente Juan Manuel Santos ha cumplido con el plan de acción laboral, en el que se comprometió luego de aprobado el Tratado de libre comercio con este país”, dijo Ana Gimena Sánchez, representante de la organización Wola, del Congreso de los Estados Unidos.
Programs to train foreign nurses still falling short
| 30-March-2013
With its rapidly aging population, Japan will need to increasingly rely on help provided by foreign health care workers.
Unions seek stronger labour laws in US-EU free trade talks
| 26-February-2013
Just days after it was announced that the USA and the European Union were to open discussions on a free trade agreement worth trillions of dollars, trade unions on both sides of the Atlantic said that employment rights had to be a key issue on the agenda. 
The signing tomorrow of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Colombia and South Korea raised in Bogotá the rejection of the unions, which see it as an attack on the industry and the productive and agriculture sector.
Sindicalistas colombianos protestan en EE. UU.
| 13-February-2013
Aseguran que no se cumplieron condiciones que se pactaron para aprobar el TLC con ese país.
Think-tank says trade deal between Canada, Europe could kill Manitoba jobs
| 7-February-2013
A left-leaning think-tank has issued another warning that a free trade deal between Canada and Europe could kill jobs rather than create them. 
La acelerada agenda gubernamental en materia de comercio exterior amenaza cada día con mayor severidad la producción industrial de Colombia. 
The former GM workers chose the grounds next to the US Embassy to stage their hunger strike because of the labor action plan agreed to between Colombia and the US last year under the countries’ free trade agreement — which both governments, and General Motors, have igored. 
Two months after a free trade agreement between the US and Colombia went into effect, workers continue to face attacks.
CUPE Nova Scotia issues warning to Dexter, first ministers about proposed Canada-EU trade deal
| 21-July-2012
The president of CUPE Nova Scotia has a warning for the premiers and others attending the first Ministers meeting in Halifax later this month. 
A secret deal that saw Brussels blamed for ‘forcing’ Britain to take in 12,000 Indian workers – despite high unemployment – was supported by a lobbying push from British financial services companies.
“Los acuerdos de libre comercio son, de alguna manera, un nuevo colonialismo”
| 3-July-2012
Entrevista Lourdes Castro, responsable oficina del Grupo SUR y representante de Alop, Aprodev,Cifca y Oidhaco. 
El 15 de mayo entrará en vigor el TLC con Estados Unidos, en medio de una densa nube de palabrería inane, recomendaciones vagas y apreciaciones de índole general, sin sustento alguno en los efectos de lo estipulado en él.
Declaración de la CUT sobre el "Plan de Acción de Colombia y EE.UU. para derechos laborales"
| 5-May-2012
"reafirmamos nuestro rechazo a los TLC y nuestra negativa a contribuir para que el gobierno de Colombia pueda cumplir o aparentar cumplir con los humillantes condicionamientos que le imponen las potencias económicas." 
Durante los últimos 20 años, los gobernantes de turno y sus mangualas se han dedicado a destruir los medios que Colombia tiene para acumular riqueza, para salir adelante.
Labor action and inaction in Colombia free trade deal
| 25-April-2012
As the media swarmed over the scandal surrounding the Secret Service’s alleged carousing with prostitutes in Colombia, another questionable financial transaction slipped quietly through the backdoor of hemispheric diplomacy. |
Court ruling fails to stop business lobbies’ privileged access in EU-India trade talks
| 13-June-2013
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