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Huge Union Turnout Expected at Miami FTAA Mtgs
CWA members will be among thousands of union activists joining a coalition of international, community and environmental allies who will call for fair rules for the global economy during the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) talks Nov. 19-21 in Miami.
The groups will hold marches, rallies, a workers' forum and cultural events in support of workers' rights and good jobs around the globe.
AFL-CIO officers will call on trade ministers gathered in Miami to ensure workers' rights and needs globally are taken into account when negotiating FTAA, a plan to extend NAFTA to all of the countries of the Western Hemisphere except Cuba.
On Nov. 18, AFL-CIO Executive Vice-President Linda Chavez-Thompson will preside at the Hemispheric Labor and Parliamentarian Forum at the Gusman Center for Performing Arts in Miami. Labor leaders from throughout the Americas will attend.
On Nov. 19, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney will give the keynote address at the AFL-CIO Workers' Forum, the first such public dialogue among workers from around the Americas about their concerns surrounding the FTAA. Chavez-Thompson will moderate the forum panel. Workers will discuss how NAFTA's promise to create jobs in the United States, Canada and Mexico has failed, instead causing record job loss, lower wages and weaker environmental and labor protections.
For a full calendar of events and more information about how union members across the country can get involved, see these websites: www.aflcio.org/stopftaa and www.marchtomiami.org.
The groups will hold marches, rallies, a workers' forum and cultural events in support of workers' rights and good jobs around the globe.
AFL-CIO officers will call on trade ministers gathered in Miami to ensure workers' rights and needs globally are taken into account when negotiating FTAA, a plan to extend NAFTA to all of the countries of the Western Hemisphere except Cuba.
On Nov. 18, AFL-CIO Executive Vice-President Linda Chavez-Thompson will preside at the Hemispheric Labor and Parliamentarian Forum at the Gusman Center for Performing Arts in Miami. Labor leaders from throughout the Americas will attend.
On Nov. 19, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney will give the keynote address at the AFL-CIO Workers' Forum, the first such public dialogue among workers from around the Americas about their concerns surrounding the FTAA. Chavez-Thompson will moderate the forum panel. Workers will discuss how NAFTA's promise to create jobs in the United States, Canada and Mexico has failed, instead causing record job loss, lower wages and weaker environmental and labor protections.
For a full calendar of events and more information about how union members across the country can get involved, see these websites: www.aflcio.org/stopftaa and www.marchtomiami.org.