U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange
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About
We are an association of individuals who act on the belief that the best way to learn about working people around the world is through meeting with them face to face.
Many methods are used to build international solidarity between working people—pamphlets documenting activities are published, international conferences are organized, tours of the United States are organized for union organizers from other countries when the U.S. government allows entry visas, and we travel to other countries to meet face to face with our counterparts—working women and men involved in building a better life for ourselves and our children.
We encourage you to get involved in building the better world that is not only possible—but necessary. Only through the active effort of poor and working people can we win a world without war where health care, education, housing, utilities, and jobs are a right for all not a privilege for the few.[1]
Conferences
2006
The third Cuba Venezuela Mexico North America Labor Conference was held from December 8 - 10, 2006 at Hotel Palacio Azteca in Tijuana, Mexico.[2]
Speakers at the conference included:[2]
- Raymundo Navarro Fernández, Dir. of Foreign Relations of the CTC, Cuba
- Manuel Montero Bistilliero, Dir. of the Americas, Dept. of Foreign Relation of the CTC, Cuba
- Maria Rodriguez Pedroso, Member, National Secretariat Healthcare Workers Union, CTC Cuba
- Edgar Paez, International Rep, Union SINALTRAINAL, Colombia
- Ruben Solis, Facilitador FSF Comité Organizador y Asamblea
- Javier Rodriguez, Leader, March 25th Coalition, Los Angeles, CA
- Gloria Verdieu, San Diego IAC, African American activist, immigrant rights struggle
- Elena Herrada, Director of Centro Obrero, Detroit, MI
- Rhadames Rivera, V. P., of Local 1199 SEIU, New York
- Judge Claudia Morcom (retired), Michigan Campaign to Free the Cuban Five
- Larry Holmes, Million Worker March, Troops Out Now Coalition
2007
The fourth International Labor Conference was held in Tijuana, Mexico. Attending the conference were:[3]
- Irma Sehwerert, mother of René González (one of the "Cuban Five")
- Elvira Arellano who in 2005 defied deportation orders by taking sanctuary in a Chicago church
- Carmen Godinez, Cuban union leader
2008
The fifth Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/North America Labor Conference was held from Dec. 5 - 7 at the Palacio Azteca hotel in Tijuana, Mexico.[4]
Invited panelists included:[4]
- Cuba: Ernesto Freire Cazanas, Head Officer, Foreign Relations of C.T.C.; Carmen Godinez, CTC of Cuba
- Venezuela: Representantes de Venezuela
- Ecuador: Confederacion de Trabajadores del Ecuador
- Bolivia: Representante de C.O.B.
- Nicaragua: Representante de Nicaragua
- Columbia: Edgar Paez, SINALTRAINAL
- Haiti: Representative
- Philippines: Elmer LaBog, Chairperson, Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU)
- Mexico/Estados Unidos: Elvira Arellano, La Familia Latina Unida
- Mexico: Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME)
- Estados Unidos: Cristina Vasquez, UNITE-HERE
Sponsoring the conference were:[4]
- U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange
- Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME)
- World Organization for the Right of the People to Healthcare
- SEIU 1199 NY
- International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five
- National Network on Cuba (NNOC)
- Venezuela Solidarity Network (VSN)
- International Action Center (IAC)
- Cuba Solidarity New York (CSNY)
- Southwest Workers Union, San Antonio, Texas
- C.O.M.P.A., Converjencia de los Movimientos de los Pueblos de Las Americas.
2009
The sixth Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/NorthAmerica Labor Conference was held from Dec. 4 - 6, 2009 at the Palacio Azteca hotel in Tijuana, Mexico.[5]
Panelists invited to speak at the conference included:[5]
- Cuba: Ernesto Freire Cazanas, Head Officer, Foreign Relations of C.T.C.; Carmen Godinez, CTC of Cuba; Anibal Melo, WFTU America Region
- Venezuela: Representantes de Venezuela
- Ecuador: Confederacion de Trabajadores del Ecuador
- Bolivia: Representante de C.O.B.
- Nicaragua: Frente Nacional de Trabajadores, FNT; Freddy Franco Secretario General FEPDES
- Columbia: Joaquin Romero Presidente FUNTRAENERGETICA, Edgar Paez, SINALTRAINAL
- Honduras: Juan Barahona Presidente de la Federacion Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras
- Haiti: Dukens Raphael Secretario General Confederation des Travailleurs du Sector Public et Prive
- Puerto Rico: Angel Figueroa Jaramillo Presidente de la UTIER
- Panama: Genaro López Secretario General SUNTRACS
- Philippines: Elmer LaBog, Chairperson, Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU)
- Mexico: Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME); Oliverio Esquivel: FSM- Mexico
- Estados Unidos: Cristina Vasquez, UNITE-HERE; Valdemar Belazquez, Presidente of FLOC (Farm Labor Organizing Committee)
Sponsors of the conference included:[5]
- U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange
- Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME)
- Federacion Sindical Mundial
- International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five
- National Network on Cuba (NNOC)
- Venezuela Solidarity Network (VSN)
- International Action Center (IAC)
- Cuba Solidarity New York (CSNY)
- Southwest Workers Union, San Antonio, Texas
- C.O.M.P.A., Converjencia de losMovimientos de los Pueblos de Las Americas
2010
The seventh Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/NorthAmerica Labor Conference was held on Dec. 3 - 5, 2010 at the Palacio Azteca hotel in Tijuana, Mexico. At the conference a short video of Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers Union.[6]
Panelists invited to speak at the conference included:[6]
- Cuba: Raymundo Navarro Feranadez, International Relations of C.T.C.; Carmen Godinez, CTC of Cuba
- Venezuela: Jacobo Torres de Leon Fuerza Socialista Bolivariana de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras; UNETE
- Ecuador: Confederacion de Trabajadores del Ecuador
- Bolivia: Representante de C.O.B.
- Nicaragua: Frente Nacional de Trabajadores, FNT
- Brazil: Joao Batista Lemos Secretario Adjunto de Relaciones Internacionales CTB
- Estados Unidos: Cristina Vasquez; Rosie Martinez SEIU Local 721
Sponsors of the Conference included:[6]
- U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange
- Federacion Sindical Mundial
- International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five
- International Action Center (IAC)
- Union del Barrio
2011
The 8th U.S./Cuba/Mexico Latin America Labor Conference was held from Dec. 1 - 4, 2011 at the Palacio Azteca hotel in Tijuana, Mexico.[7]
Speakers at the conference included:
- Clarence Thomas, ILWU[8]
- Exterior Secretary Jose Montes de Oca SME[9]
External Links
References
- ↑ International Labor Exchange website, September 18, 2006 (accessed on Dec. 15, 2011)
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 International Labor Exchange: Cuba Venezuela Mexico North America Labor Conference—III (accessed on Dec. 15, 2011)
- ↑ IAC: Dec 5-7 Tijuana Int'l Labor Conference (accessed on Dec. 15, 2011)
- ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 4.2 IAC: Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/North America Labor Conference - V (accessed on Dec. 15, 2011)
- ↑ Jump up to: 5.0 5.1 5.2 International Action Center: Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/NorthAmerica Labor Conference - VI (accessed on Dec. 15, 2011)
- ↑ Jump up to: 6.0 6.1 6.2 IAC: Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/NorthAmerica Labor Conference - VII: December, 3, 4 and 5, Diciembre 3, 4 y 5, 2010 (accessed on Dec. 15, 2011)
- ↑ LaborExchange.blogspot.com: DIRECTIONS -San Diego Airport to Hotel (accessed on Dec. 15, 2011)
- ↑ UStream: Final Session 8th U.S./Cuba/Mexico Latin America Labor Conference (accessed on Dec. 15, 2011)
- ↑ LaborExchange.blogspot.com: 2011 DRAFT AGENDA/Schedule (accessed on Dec. 15, 2011)