Solidarity Center News: Three Years After Haiti Earthquake, Workers Still Need Jobs

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Three years after the disastrous earthquake struck Haiti, workers and their families continue to struggle as the cost-of-living keeps rising while wages—for those who have jobs—remain the same. The Solidarity Center has joined with Haitian unions and worker rights organizations in calling for decent employment, living wages, safe working conditions and the right to form unions without retaliation so that Haitian workers can support their families and help their country recover. The Solidarity Center initiated a new program that works toward these goals, with a specific focus on organizing in the textile sector. Read more at the Solidarity Center. - photo: Dominican union truck drivers deliver supplies to Haitian workers in Port-au-Prince; photo by Cathy Feingold