Colombia’s coffee producers are asking the government to allocate $530 million of subsidy payments for 2014 as part of the country’s Income Protection scheme for Coffee (PIC). During a special committee meeting on...
At least 600 sugarcane harvesters in southwestern Colombia on Thursday reportedly went on strike to protest union persecution and mass layoffs. The lawyer for the Colombia Workers Confederation (CUT), Fabio Arias, told Colombia...
A labor dispute between the Cerrejon coal company and its striking workers will continue after both sides fail to reach an agreement regarding wage negotiations. The Cerrejon mine located in the northern Colombian department of...
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos on Friday assigned the Minister of Labor to form a commission in order to address a union strike at Colombia’s most productive mine. BACKGROUND: Colombia’s most productive coal mine...
Approximately 4,000 employees of Colombia’s Pacific Rubiales oil company went on strike Monday after labor and wage negotiations failed. “Negotiations between Pacific Rubiales Energy and the USO (Sindical Obreras...
Three senior officers were arrested for alleged attacks against unionists in the west Colombian city of Cali. According to Colombian media, the investigative division of the Prosecutor General’s Office (CTI) arrested one...
Fifteen union leaders have been murdered since the Labor Action Plan between the United States and Colombia went into effect in April 2011, said the largest U.S-based trade union federation in a letter to President Barack Obama....
431 NGOs from Colombia and the U.S. signed a petition against the pending Free Trade Agreement (FTA), reported Caracol Radio Thursday. The coalition of NGOs argued that the FTA would have a negative impact on small...
Colombian Comptroller General Sandra Morelli said that the Saludcoop leadership’s decision to unionize will not affect investigations moving forward against the recently intervened health insurance company (EPS), local...
Colombia’s air transportation authority said it is ready to take a load off the truckers who are going on strike at midnight Wednesday, RCN Radio reported. Director of Civil Aeronautics Santiago Castro Gomez said that the...
Coal workers at Cerrejon, Colombia’s largest exporter, have voted to strike after the union faild to reach a new compensation deal, news agency Reuters reported Thursday. Cerrejon produces 85,000 tons of coal per day and a...
