Blog: November 2009

Central American Labor Groups Share Challenges

Representatives at the meeting included: David Eduardo Soto Oliva, a union leader from the National Federation of Unions of Guatemalan State Workers (Federación Nacional de Sindicatos de Trabajadores del Estado de Guatemala[FENESTEG]); Danilo Flores, coordinator of the Union Platform on Labor Justice in El Salvador within the Foundation to Study the Application of the Law (Fundacion de Estudios para la Aplicación de Derecho); Yadira Minero, coordinator for the Women Workers’ Program of Center on Womens’ Rights in Honduras (Centro de Derechos de las Mujeres); Miguel Ángel Ruíz Estrada, General Secretary of the multi‐sector Labor Union Confederation – “Jose Benito Escobar” in Nicaragua (Confederación Sindical de Trabajadores “Jose Benito Escobar” [CST‐JBE]); Alicia Vargas Obando, Secretar

Another Drummond Worker Dies on the Job

Eva Seidelman, ILRF Program Assistant                         DSC_0013

The La Loma coal mine owned by the Alabama based company, Drummond, is a major danger zone for workers. On October 30, 2009, yet another worker died on the job due to a work accident, the third death at a Drummmond owned-mine since March 2009. 16 workers producing for Drummond have died within the short period Drummond has maintained operations in Colombia.

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