This project seeks to increase the capacity of workers in Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador to take more effective advantage of the globalization movement in the North, including the use of corporate campaigns and trade-worker rights linkages.
With the support of the General Service Foundation, for example, USLEAP helped organize trade and worker rights workshops in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras in collaboration with the AFL-CIO, the Development GAP, and the Institute for Trade and Agriculture Policy. The workshops, for representatives of local human rights, women's, trade union, and religious organizations, provided updated information about trade issues as they affect workers (e.g. the impact of NAFTA on Mexican workers), and developed a follow-up process to engage civil society more fully in helping shape trade polices that affect their countries.
The MacArthur Foundation also supported a two-year initiative for USLEAP to work with banana worker trade unions to enable their effective participation in developing and implementing a strategy for a socially-responsible restructuring of the banana industry.
USLEAP provides on-going consultation with workers and organizations in the region regarding strategies and tactics in the U.S. that can support their own efforts to improve wages, working conditions, and respect for basic rights.
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