Solidarity Center Report: Afro-Colombian Labor Council Tackles Discrimination
Friday, March 15, 2013
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Afro-Colombians are far likelier than other Colombian workers to earn less than
the minimum wage and to be employed in jobs where they cannot form unions to
improve their working conditions. And all of this exclusion “has a strong
current of racial discrimination under it,” said Agripina Hurtado
(right), the newly elected president of the Afro-Colombian Labor Council
(Consejo Labor Afrocolombiano). A quarter of Colombia’s population is
Afro-descendant, yet Afro-Colombians comprise more than three-quarters of the
country’s poor. Hurtado spoke this week at the Solidarity Center. Read more at
the Solidarity Center. - photo
Hurtado discusses the goals of the new Afro-Colombian Labor Council; photo by
Tula Connell