http://www.kreativadesign.net/Global Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:23:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After one last substantive session focused on the use of international law, the training shifted into action. The last day was dedicated to how the Global Workers Defender Network will function. These defenders were trained to accomplish three objectives. 1. Educate migrant workers about their rights in the US. 2. ... http://www.kreativadesign.net/Global/2008/04/30/tapachula-chiapas-mexico-april-30-2008/ Day two saw the completion of the US employment law segment, which covered Discrimination (with a special emphasis on sexual harassment, a serious and under addressed problem in the work place, especially for farmworker women), Unions (interestingly the focus of the most extensive questions), Health and Safety (mostly the rights ... http://www.kreativadesign.net/Global/2008/04/29/tapachula-chiapas-mexico-april-29-2008/ The fist day of the training was wonderful. Most of the advocates are lawyers and they soaked up the day’s intensive survey of US employment law. All of the US law topics were carefully chosen as most relevant to transnational migrant workers and based upon the manual meticulously elaborated over ... http://www.kreativadesign.net/Global/2008/04/28/tapachula-chiapas-mexico-april-28-2008/ This is an historic moment for Global Workers. Tonight 23 advocates from 13 human rights organizations from southern Mexico and Guatemala are arriving in Tapachula, Mexico for a three-day Training on Defending Transnational Migrant Workers in the United States. After over two years of carefully laying the groundwork traveling through ... http://www.kreativadesign.net/Global/2008/04/27/tapachula-chiapas-mexico-april-27-2008/ Today Global Workers met with Brazilian and Mexican workers who were all exploited through the guest worker program and are organizing with the support of the New Orleans Workers Center. The Brazilian workers paid up to $6,000 to secure jobs as welders at the Signal shipyard in Mississippi. But when ... http://www.kreativadesign.net/Global/2008/03/08/new-orleans-louisiana-march-8-2008/ Today, 100 of these Indian guest workers quit their jobs at Signal and threw their hard hats at the front gate in a symbolic protest. Angry and defrauded, these workers want justice. A local TV station covered the action. Global Workers was present at the protest in Pascagoula as part ... http://www.kreativadesign.net/Global/2008/03/06/pascagoula-mississippi-march-6-2008/ The New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice asked Global Workers to support a case of Indian H-2b guest workers trafficked to work for Signal International, a large shipyard in Mississippi. Specifically, they wanted to bring legal actions in India against the recruiter and to explore international legal actions in ... http://www.kreativadesign.net/Global/2008/03/05/pascagoula-mississippi-march-5-2008/ Oaxaca is the second state in Mexico where the Transnational Migrant Defender Network will launch in Mexico. This trip was to identify the partner organizations to invite to the first advocate training scheduled for the end of April in Chiapas. Oaxaca is a fascinating state. Highly organized with a myriad ... http://www.kreativadesign.net/Global/2008/02/10/oaxaca-mexico-february-10-2008/ Global Workers is excited to announce that it will conduct its first sending-country advocate training April 27-30 in Tapachula. We traveled to Tapachula to coordinate logistics for the training with a local NGO advocate partner, the Friar Matias Center for Human Rights. 25 lawyers and legal assistants from southern Mexico ... http://www.kreativadesign.net/Global/2008/02/07/tapachula-chiapas-mexico-february-7-2008/ Global Workers just learned that one worker in Guatemala refused to pay the illegal and exaggerated recruitment fees required for him to go to the US with the guest worker H-2 program. Although the recruiter had already chosen this worker to go, he was dropped off the list when he ... http://www.kreativadesign.net/Global/2007/12/05/new-york-december-5-2007/