The corporations are free of pesky union regulations, and can trade off basic human rights for profits…
Less than 24 hours after President Bush met with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom at the White House on Monday, a worker from a union that filed a trade complaint with Washington against the Guatemalan government was murdered.
Carlos Enrique Cruz Hernández, a banana worker, was assassinated while working at a farm owned by a subsidiary of Del Monte. Cruz Hernández’s Union of Izabal Banana Workers (SITRABI), was one of six Guatemalan unions who, along with the AFL-CIO, filed a complaint allowed through labor provisions of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) on April 23, charging that the Guatemalan government was not upholding its labor laws and was failing to investigate and prosecute crimes against union members–which include rape and murder. The complaint states that violence against trade unionists has increased over the past two years (since CAFTA was ratified) and that the Guatemalan government may be responsible for some of the violence. The violence from this year alone includes 8 murders, 1 attempted murder, 2 drive-by shootings, and the kidnapping and gang rape of a top union official’s daughter who was targeted because of her father’s union work.
(Full article, “Bullets and Bananas: The Violence of Free Trade in Guatemala” by Cyril Mychalejko at Upsidedownworld.org)
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Looks like the work of corupt politicians in Guatemala and not the US. Free Trade is basically what illegal immigrants in the US practice. Why can’t the unions just welcome free trade in Guatemala? Why would anyone want unionized labor to cause the price of thier labor to exceed what is practicle? Makes little sence to me. The Guatemalan government needs to hold a formal investigation into this.