• Solidarity Center report: The Degradation of Work: The True Cost of Shrimp (PDF).
• AFL-CIO fact sheet on violence in Guatemala (PDF).
• AFL-CIO complaint against workers' rights violations in Guatemala (PDF).
• U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
• Stop Bush from forcing another bad trade agreement (PDF).
• AFL-CIO report: Workers' Rights, Violence and Impunity in Colombia (PDF).

   China

The U.S. trade deficit with China alone is the largest in U.S. history with one country—$201 billion. At the same time, China’s workers are denied basic workers’ rights. The AFL-CIO has petitioned the Bush administration on workers’ rights in China. 

   Trade Agreements

The Bush administration negotiates bilateral trade agreements with countries that either lack or fail to enforce workers’ rights laws. Find out more about such agreements in the Middle East and Central America.

   Trade Deficit

The rising U.S. trade deficit has cost more than 3 million actual and potential U.S. jobs since 1994. Learn more about the trade deficit and what you can do to help.

• In Colombia, dozens of unionists are killed and attacked every year, while the Colombian government systematically undermines union members’ rights. Tell your representative to oppose a trade deal with Colombia until its government makes real progress in protecting the lives and rights of union members.

• From 1993 to 2004, the United States lost more than 1 million jobs due to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Find this info and more in the AFL-CIO Facts & Stats database.

• Learn more about and get a list of International Labor Organizations.
• AFL-CIO Solidarity Center.

• Read the AFL-CIO Executive Council’s statements on Outsourcing America and Taking Action to Challenge Communist China’s Unfair Trade Practices, and find other related resolutions and council statements in the AFL-CIO Convention archive.

• Testimony of Robert C. Baugh, executive director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council and chair of AFL-CIO Energy Task Force, before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (PDF).
• Read testimony from AFL-CIO Policy Director Thea Lee on the "Fight Against Global Poverty and Inequality: The World Bank's Approach to Core Labor Standards and Employment Creation."
• Read testimony from Peter Bakvis, director of the Washington, D.C., office of the ITUC/Global Unions, on the fight against global poverty and inequality
• Find more information on the global economy in the AFL-CIO archives.