Colombia’s prison guards protest bad working conditions, overcrowded jails
Colombia’s prison guards resume protests in an ongoing attempt to force the government to curb overcrowding and improve working conditions, local media reported Tuesday.
Colombia’s prison guards resume protests in an ongoing attempt to force the government to curb overcrowding and improve working conditions, local media reported Tuesday.
Youth unemployment and child labor will be the top priorities when labor ministers from 34 North and South American countries meet in Medellin, Colombia on Monday.
The nearly three-year-old US-Colombia Labor Action Plan (LAP) has not only failed to alleviate serious labor problems in the country, but has allowed the situation to “worsen,” United States Representatives George…
A human rights commission in the House of the Representatives will hear testimony this Thursday from the United States government, NGOs, think tanks, and members of civil society on the…
A British human rights group, Justice for Colombia, has begun a campaign to have one of the country’s most high-profile trade unionists released from prison.
Education workers on Wednesday said that they will be forced to go ahead with their planned national strike beginning September 10, which would effectively close schools across Colombia, if the…
On Wednesday, Colombia’s largest labor union declared Thursday a national day of protest in support of striking farmers and miners. The union demands President Juan Manuel Santos talk to the…
Workers of Bogota’s National University, Colombia’s largest university, went on strike Tuesday, forcing the university to suspend classes for its 30,000 students.
Colombia’s teachers threaten to join an ongoing national strike and shut down the country’s public education system unless the government keeps made promises regarding labor conditions.