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  • $1,590 Raised for Garment Workers! Thank You!

    $1,590 Raised for Garment Workers! Thank You!

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    Happy 2018!

    Thank you so much to all who ended the year with a contribution to support Haitian garment workers!

    We raised $1,591.96 for workers in Port Au Prince and Carrefour!

    This money was directly wired to Haiti and Batay Ouvriye to be disbursed to a group of workers from four factories. They have been unable to go to work because of union-busting.

    Their firings were all found illegal by government and regulatory agencies, but factory owners and bosses wouldn’t budge. By the end of the year, they were out of work for several months with unpaid rent and hungry families.

    Thank you so much for standing with them, so they can continue their fight.

    If this is new news to you, check out this video to learn more.

    It’s Never to Late to Give.

    Our overall goal was $2,000. So, we are $408.04 short of this goal.

    It’s not too late to give! Every dollar counts.

    Many of the donations we received were in smaller amounts, like $15 and $25.

    It all adds up to critical support.

    Click here to DONATE.

    We look forward to a new year of international solidarity and continuing the struggle.

    Happy New Year!


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    Thank you for all you do! <3

    #SolidarityForever

  • Year End Goal: $2,000 to Fight Exploitation!

    Year End Goal: $2,000 to Fight Exploitation! <3

    Just $530 Left to Raise Before Midnight!
    We can do this.

    CLICK HERE TO DONATE     <3


    Illegally Fired Workers Face Hunger & Homelessness

    From May to July, 2017, SOTA-BO textile union led garment workers across Haiti in monumental mobilizations for an increased minimum wage. In the wake of these efforts, many of these union members were arbitrarily and illegally fired for exercising their legal rights.

    • SOTA-BO members from Quality Sewing factory have been out of work since March – another clear case of union-busting! The Ministry of labor found their firings illegal, and said they should be rehired… but, the boss refuses to let them in to work.

    As the holidays approach, these workers and their families are hungry. They face losing their homes, as they cannot pay rent.

    One of the workers from Quality Sewing just had a baby. The spouse of a worker from SISA also just gave birth. They are struggling to raise infants with no wages.

    Workers with older children cannot send them to school. In Haiti, public schools are few and far between. So, private schools are the norm. Without income, these workers cannot pay school tuition. Their children are unable to take year end exams, and fall behind in school.

    This is all because factory owners refuse workers’ basic rights.

    "Workers Organize!"

     

    Support Illegally Fired Workers – Let’s Raise $2000 before 2018!

    Workers’ survival and very lives are being attacked simply, because they insist on basic rights – a decent wage that allows them to feed, house, clothe and educate themselves and their families.

    Let’s help SOTA-BO members get through the year end & continue to fight!

    It’s likely the best thing you can do with your money and your conscience this holiday season.

    If just 50 people contribute, $40 each, we can reach this goal.

    If you can’t donate $40, please give what you can.

    Every dollar adds up and carries a major impact for these workers.

    Stand with garment workers in their fight against exploitation!


    DONATE HERE.     *


    Thank you SO MUCH for your ongoing solidarity <3

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

    *The RRN is not a 501(c)3, so your donation is not tax deductible.

  • Caracol: Fighting Wage Theft. Punch In & Clock Out.

    Caracol: Fighting Wage Theft. Punch In & Clock Out.

    Caracol is in the north of Haiti.
    Monday, December 4, 2017 – Garment workers at SNH Global, SA factory in the Caracol Industrial Park confronted a supervisor named Jose for not paying them their wages.

    SNH Global is a subsidiary of Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd, Sae-A, a global clothing manufacturer headquartered in South Korea. Sae-A is also the anchor tenant of the Caracol Industrial Park, and is well known for its abuses to workers.

    Caracol Industrial Park
    Caracol Industrial Park

    Factory owners, manufacturers, and the brands they produce for make millions, sometimes billions of dollars in profit by exploiting these workers with misery wages and wage theft.

    Today, the workers at SNH Global fought back.

    In the video below, a worker explains what has happened: “This morning, workers walked into the factory, punched in, and walked out in protest against Jose. This is happening at Module Two at Caracol.”

    In the video below, workers have confronted the supervisor named Jose, and he his seen driving out of the factory gates.

     

    Haitian garment workers already receive the lowest wage in the western hemisphere, but constantly have to fight to be paid the full sum of their paltry wages. Their salaries are often consumed just by the transportation costs of getting to and from work. Most workers live in debt, and are often on the brink of hunger and homelessness.

    Production quotas are often set impossibly high. Factory owners and management do not respect the law, and often do not pay the existing minimum wage. Union members and organizers are constantly harassed and arbitrarily fired for exercising their legal rights.

    We are not sure how long this action will last, but we will let you know if the workers request us to take some kind of action.

    Meanwhile, be sure to sign up for email updates and to follow the RRN on Facebook & Twitter.

    As we head into the holiday season, this is a time when the people who work to produce and ship all the goods we consume are pushed even harder.

    Solidarity with the workers in Haiti and around the world who are fighting back against exploitation!

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