Sweatshops & Labour Archives - Haiti Support Group

Stitched Up: the Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion Launch!
Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion Launch! The Haiti Support Group is proud to support the book launch for…
February 12, 2014
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Labour Solidarity Meeting on Haiti
Caribbean Labour Solidarity Meeting on Haiti Following the success of the Haitian people winning their freedom from French enslavement in…
January 27, 2014
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Caracol: None of Your Business – Haiti Briefing 75
New Release: Haiti Briefing 75 - Caracol: None of Your Business The latest issue of the Haiti Briefing, the Haiti…
December 30, 2013
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Wage Hike in Haiti Doesn’t Address Factory Abuses
IPS Article Reports: Wage Hike in Haiti Doesn’t Address Factory Abuses Inter Press Service, December 3 2013 By J. REGAN…
December 5, 2013
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Haitian Sweatshops: Made in the U.S.A.
March 21, 2013 Fran Quigley, In These Times original article here When the shift changes in the late afternoon, thousands…
March 21, 2013
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Caracol Industrial Park: Worth the risk?
March 7, 2013 Kale Je/Haiti Grassroots Watch original article here Caracol and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 7 March 2013 – Last October,…
March 7, 2013
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Beaten Haitian Worker Continues Fight for $7-Per-Day Wage
March 5, 2013 Dan Schneider, In These Times original article hereWhen Haiti's minimum wage rose to 300 Gourds ($7 US)…
March 6, 2013
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Phoenix Project… born again?
January 21, 2013 Kale Je/Grassroots watch original article here Port-au-Prince, HAITI, 22 January 2013 – For more than two years,…
February 4, 2013
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Subsidizing Starvation
January 11, 2013 Maura R O'Connor, Foreign Policy How American tax dollars are keeping Arkansas rice growers fat on the…
January 15, 2013
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Gold Rush in Haiti
By Jacob Kushner, Guernica August 15, 2012 original article here Riches beckon from beneath Haiti's hills, and mining companies are…
September 12, 2012
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Earthquake Relief where Haiti wasn’t Broken
By Deborah Sontag, The New York Times, July 5, 2012 CARACOL, Haiti — On the first anniversary of the Jan.…
July 7, 2012
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Haitian Workers Campaign against Slave Labour Conditions
Batay Ouvriye, Haiti, May 2012 The May Day activities took place as planned. In Cap Haïtien, around 500 workers, from…
May 19, 2012
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Ending Intimidation of Textile Workers: Campaign
Photo: Demo against the dismissal of SOTA workers - © Joris Willems/HSG Haiti Support Group, London, 6 October 2011 - …
October 10, 2011
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Campaign to end intimidation of textile workers union SOTA
Campaign to end intimidation of textile workers' union The Haitian workers rights organisation Batay Ouvriye (BO), whose campaigns we have…
October 10, 2011
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Protest the physical abuse of Haitian workers in Port-au-Prince sweatshops!
Protest the physical abuse of Haitian workers in Port-au-Prince sweatshops! Sample protest letter to send to Willbes & Co. Ltd.…
May 28, 2010
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Saving the Clothing Industry
Magazen Kostim/Flikr 21 February 2010 Jordanie Pinquie Rebeca leans forward and guides a piece of suit-jacket wool and its silky…
February 21, 2010
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One Haitian dollar… One Man’s Total Worldly Wealth
26 January 2010 It was a searing image on a day when world leaders gathered in Montreal to discuss the…
January 26, 2010
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Campaign: Garment Assembly Workers in Port-au-Prince
Mark Howard/25 Ed The Haiti Support Group backs the struggle of the 20,000-odd workers who assemble garments for export who…
December 31, 2008
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Haitian Workers’ Organiser makes European Connections
A representative of a Haitian workers' organisationhas completed a two week trip to Europe to make contact with garment workers'…
July 10, 2007
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Protest Against Abuse of Workers’ Rights
Protest Against Abuse of Workers’ Rights Mr. Raymond JAAR CEO Brasserie de La Couronne S.A. Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Haïti…
May 30, 2006
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Campaign in support of other new unions and workers’ organisations
See the LabourStart Haiti news section Abuse of workers’ rights at La Couronne Brewery–Coca-Cola Haiti – May 2006 American Center…
May 30, 2006
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Collective Bargaining Contract Signed in Ouanaminthe
Links to other websites ITUC interview with Batay Ouvriye's Yannick Etienne, June 2007 The US Solidarity Centre's Haiti programme in…
December 15, 2005
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Where is the respect for workers’ rights?
1 May 2004 A snapshot of working conditions at the Laguna Azul Haiti company (originally: Yon kout je sou kondisyon…
May 1, 2004
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Minimum Wage in Haiti Not Enough to Survive
Lee Cohen/Flikr 15 October 2003 Port-au-Prince Amy Bracken, Haitian Times Staff Paulaine Saint-Fleur, a 24-year-old living in the impoverished neighborhood…
October 15, 2003
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Haiti’s Labour Movement in Renaissance
Haiti’s Labour Movement in Renaissance. International Union Rights – quarterly magazine of The International Centre for Trade Union Rights –…
June 30, 2003
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