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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Colombia</title>
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		<title>Colombian Palm Oil Workers Win Protections in New Agreement</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/14/colombian-palm-oil-workers-win-protections-in-new-agreement/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/14/colombian-palm-oil-workers-win-protections-in-new-agreement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Puerto Wilches, Colombia, an agreement has been reached between palm oil plantation workers who have been on strike for two months, employers and the government of Colombia. The agreement will protect the workers from retaliation—there were reports that military and counter-terrorism police were gathering and workers feared a crackdown. Colombia is the most dangerous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTA: Pillage and Barbarism</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/24/fta-pillage-and-barbarism/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/24/fta-pillage-and-barbarism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SINALTRAINAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steelworkers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Documents signed in a fraudulent attempt to violate workers’ and citizens’ rights are only sheets of paper. These do not reflect a bilateral commercial treaty but just one episode more in the history of pillage and barbarism in Colombia, Panama and South Korea. On the other hand, we value the work of all organizations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Week of Walking Backwards</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/14/the-week-of-walking-backwards/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/14/the-week-of-walking-backwards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Jobs Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[currency manipulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade Agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McPherson Square]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a country where joblessness is a painful 9.1 percent. Where one in five children lives in poverty. Where foreclosures rose again last month. Where a whole movement—Occupy Wall Street -- is growing to protest the appeasement of the rich at the cost of the middle class. In that place, Congress chose to walk backwards last week. It didn’t take two steps forward – which it could have by passing the currency manipulation bill and American Jobs Act. No. It just took a giant step backward by embracing three job-killing trade agreements. It all provokes the question: Where are the jobs?]]></description>
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		<title>Call Congress Today and Say ‘NO!’ on Korea, Colombia and Panama Trade Deals</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/04/call-congress-today-and-say-%e2%80%98no%e2%80%99-on-korea-colombia-and-panama-trade-deals/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/04/call-congress-today-and-say-%e2%80%98no%e2%80%99-on-korea-colombia-and-panama-trade-deals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Action Call]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unfair trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, you can take action to stop Congress from approving job-killing trade deals with Korea, Colombia and Panama and tell Republicans and Democrats to put Americans back to work. Join the AFL-CIO’s National Call in Day and dial 1-800-718-1008 and tell your lawmakers to stop these dangerous trade deals. You can also send your message [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Boycott Trade Hearing Over Inclusion of Help for Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/02/republicans-boycott-trade-hearing-over-inclusion-of-help-for-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/02/republicans-boycott-trade-hearing-over-inclusion-of-help-for-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outsourcing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unfair trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9803</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Senate Republicans who nearly worship at the feet of free trade agreements—to heck with their devastating impact on U.S. workers—boycotted an opportunity to move the most recent free trade holy trinity of South Korea, Colombia and Panama deals closer to a vote. The reason? President Obama wants to include in the South Korea free trade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia FTA: Rewarding Promises Instead of Performance</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/12/colombia-fta-rewarding-promises-instead-of-performance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/12/colombia-fta-rewarding-promises-instead-of-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afro-Colombians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Policy Institute]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To get the FTA it wants, the Colombian government, like an addict, is willing to say anything. Wall Street banks and multi-national corporations in the United States are so addicted to free trade that they will believe any baseless promise, no actual performance required.]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia Workers: Keep Fighting Against Free Trade Agreement</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/10/colombia-workers-keep-fighting-against-free-trade-agreement/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/10/colombia-workers-keep-fighting-against-free-trade-agreement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CUT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jaime Diaz Ortiz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Samuel Santos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lina Malagon Diaz]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Solidarity Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tarsicio Munoz]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=6277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By James Parks AFL-CIO Senior Writer Over the past 24 years, more than 2,800 trade union members have been killed in Colombia and the government’s highly publicized efforts to bring the killers to justice are just a public relations spin to try and convince the United States to sign the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Colombian workers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Working Mothers Know You Care This Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/03/let-working-mothers-know-you-care-this-mother%e2%80%99s-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/03/let-working-mothers-know-you-care-this-mother%e2%80%99s-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 21:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flower workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[union blogs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=3190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By James Parks AFL-CIO Senior Writer Mother’s Day, May 9, is one of the biggest days in the year for flower sales. Yet thousands of women who pick most of the flowers, many of them mothers themselves, will spend that day working in egregious conditions for poverty wages and in hazardous conditions. You can help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles Times to Colombia:  Prosecute Corporate Supporters of Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/04/los-angeles-times-to-colombia-prosecute-corporate-supporters-of-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/04/los-angeles-times-to-colombia-prosecute-corporate-supporters-of-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AUC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiquita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiquita Brands International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mario Iguaran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salvatore Mancuso]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=1137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard USW International President In an Oct. 1 editorial, the Los Angeles Times echoes the sentiment that the United Steelworkers union has been expressing for years – corporate supporters of paramilitaries in Colombia who murder trade unionists must be held criminally accountable.  Specifically, the Los Angeles Times is applauding the order of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No evidence found that Colombia suddenly FTA-worthy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/05/11/no-evidence-found-that-colombia-suddenly-fta-worthy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/05/11/no-evidence-found-that-colombia-suddenly-fta-worthy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Fred Redmond USW Vice President Human Affairs Four hours into the New Year, a political activist who was also a well-known trade unionist was celebrating at a party in the town of Montoso when a political opponent stabbed him numerous times in the chest. As Adolfo Tique lay dead, his six children fatherless, [...]]]></description>
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