Solidarity Center News: Unions in Haiti, Kenya Make Workers Center Stage in National Debate

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Foreign investors are opening up shop in Haiti—but at what cost to working people? Haitian unions are taking the lead in educating and mobilizing workers and the community about their right to participate at the workplace and in the broader social debates that shape their lives, according to panelists at a recent event in Washington, DC. In Kenya, where voters are headed to the polls next week to elect a new president, the union movement there sponsored a first-ever forum for candidates to describe how their platforms would help workers. Read more at the Solidarity Center. - photo: workers outside SONAPI Industrial Park, Port-au-Prince, rallying for decent pay on 10/8/2012; photo by Susan Washington