Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum, GLJ-ILRF · [email protected]

July 1, 2020 at 10:26 PM

The International Labor Right Forum and Global Labor Justice Are Joining Forces to Defend Worker Rights and Build Worker Power in the Global Economy

If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online     Today, I am excited to announce the merger of two allied organizations — the International Labor Rights Forum and Global Labor Justice.  Developed over many months with the strong support of our allies, board, and staff, our new …

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

June 30, 2020 at 9:27 PM

Thank you from Judy and my next steps

Dear Friends, It has been a tremendous honor to serve as ILRF’s executive director since 2011 and to come to know so many inspiring advocates for workers’ rights around the world.  I very much plan to stay engaged in this work and will remain an ardent supporter of the new team as the ILRF and G…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

June 30, 2020 at 6:17 PM

JUNE 2020 E-NEWS

If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online        ILRF is Merging with Global Labor Justice   On July 1st the International Labor Rights Forum will enter an exciting and important new phase when we merge with Global Labor Justice and Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum begins as the Exe…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

June 28, 2020 at 3:10 PM

We have exciting news — ILRF is merging with Global Labor Justice!

Dear Friends, On July 1st the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) will enter an exciting and important new phase when we merge with Global Labor Justice (GLJ) and Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum begins as the Executive Director of the merged organization. We hope you will support the new team by mak…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

June 12, 2020 at 3:13 PM

End Child Labor, Stop Corporate Theft

    Dear Friends, Today is World Day Against Child Labor – reminding us of the urgent need to stop child labor, especially the extremely hazardous forms of child labor.  Please donate today to support ILRF’s campaigns against this insidious abuse, which is all too integral to global supply chai…

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  Kimberly Rogovin, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

May 21, 2020 at 2:07 PM

Support Union Rights for Migrant Workers in Thailand

Sign the petition Dear John, In Thailand, millions of migrants toil in jobs that fall short of minimum international labor standards. The legal reforms to date have been insufficient to put an end to the ongoing severe exploitation of migrant workers in the country. The explicit discr…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

May 15, 2020 at 6:47 PM

Save the Date: 2020 Labor Rights Defenders Awards

Dear John, Please mark your calendar for the new date for the 2020 Labor Rights Defenders Awards Ceremony: October 1, 2020. We believe it is even more important now to honor these amazing advocates. While we hope to see many of you in person at SEIU in Washington, DC; at the very least we will o…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

May 5, 2020 at 6:31 PM

Your Gift Today

Dear John, Today, #GivingTuesdayNow – a new global day of giving and unity – calls on us to give generously as an emergency response to the dire need caused by COVID-19. We know that so many of you are giving generously with your volunteer hours and financial contributions to initiatives in yo…

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  Liana Foxvog, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

April 30, 2020 at 2:04 PM

Join us this May Day!

Dear John, Melon pickers are essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic and yet the billion-dollar Fyffes corporation refuses to give them face masks and gloves, and has not implemented any social distancing on overcrowded company buses. This May Day, please join us for a 1-hour webinar wit…

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  Liana Foxvog, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

April 24, 2020 at 3:27 PM

Rana Plaza Never Again

Dear John, Seven years ago the Rana Plaza building collapse marked the deadliest disaster in the history of the global garment industry. Survivors and family members of the 1,134 workers who died continue to live with the trauma of the tragedy. Our thoughts are with them today as we continue to…

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  Gabby Rosazza, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

April 23, 2020 at 2:41 PM

New Exposé: The Fight for Justice at Fyffes

Register for the webinar Read the report Sign the petition Dear John, “If you die while working at the company, seven more people are ready to replace you.” That is what a Honduran melon worker heard from a representative of Fyffes’ employer-dominated union. Our new scathing exposé: F…

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  Liana Foxvog, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

March 27, 2020 at 8:58 PM

Actions for Local to Global Solidarity

Dear John, We hope you and your loved ones are healthy and safe as we all collectively navigate and respond to this public health and economic crisis. Together with our partners and allies around the world, ILRF is calling on governments, employers, and multinational corporations to take all ne…

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  Kimberly Rogovin, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

March 19, 2020 at 3:52 PM

Time for a Sea Change

Sign the petition Download the report Dear John, Six years ago, international media exposed widespread forced labor, human trafficking, and other egregious abuses in the Thai seafood industry. The initiatives put into place since then have not been sufficient, and forced labor continue…

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  Kimberly Rogovin, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

March 16, 2020 at 8:23 PM

Webinar: Worker Organizing in the Seafood Industry

Dear John, In two days from now ILRF will be launching our new publication, Time for a Sea Change: Why trade union rights for migrant workers are needed to prevent forced labor in the Thai seafood industry. Please join us for a webinar, which ILRF will co-host with FishWise, on worker organizin…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

February 14, 2020 at 8:26 PM

This Valentine's Day: Celebrate Cocoa Farmers!

General Agricultural Workers Union of Ghana Dear John, This Valentine’s Day we have some things to celebrate! This coming June 11 we will honor the General Agricultural Workers Union of Ghana (GAWU) for their advocacy for cocoa farmers and their children. We will bring GAWU representa…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

February 12, 2020 at 6:44 PM

Big News!

Dear Friends, I write to announce that this year I will be transitioning out of ILRF. This is my tenth year and I am incredibly proud of what we have built here. Although it’s hard to part with such an amazing organization, I will forever hold ILRF’s mission in my heart and continue in new ways…

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  Gabby Rosazza, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

January 23, 2020 at 9:58 PM

The Progressive covers Honduran melon workers' fight for justice

Moises Sanchez Dear Friends, Thank you to everyone who took action in support of Moises Sanchez, the Honduran trade union leader we wrote to you about last Saturday. A legal settlement is in process of being negotiated and, while Moises still faces the spurious charges, he is no longer…

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  Gabby Rosazza, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

January 18, 2020 at 3:27 PM

Honduran union leader threatened with imprisonment

Moises Sanchez Dear John, A union leader whom we work with in Honduras could be imprisoned for 30 years on bogus charges, pending a decision at a trial next Wednesday. Moises Sanchez is the Secretary General of the STAS union on Fyffes' melon farms in Honduras, where he worked from 1993…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

December 30, 2019 at 3:08 PM

Your Gift Matters

Please Donate to ILRF Photos by Taslima Akhter. Dear Friends, If you haven’t yet made your year-end tax-deductible gift to ILRF, will you please do so before the New Year? We deeply appreciate each of you for your actions online and in the streets in solidarity with workers who are o…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

December 23, 2019 at 4:06 PM

"We're sick of it"

Dear John, Will you help us fight forced labor with a tax-deductible gift before the end of the year? Last week the repressive government of Turkmenistan ordered workers in several regions to return to the cotton fields to pick the last bits of remaining cotton. For teachers, medical workers, a…

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  Elena Arengo, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

December 21, 2019 at 3:05 PM

Standing with Migrant Workers

Dear John, As the world marked International Migrants Day this week, we are reminded that migrants are among the most vulnerable workers in the global economy. Many flee extreme poverty only to find themselves exploited, unprotected, and even trapped in debt bondage. ILRF is standing with migran…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

December 19, 2019 at 3:18 PM

How do we end child labor?

Make a Gift to ILRF Photo by Robin Romano. Dear John, The incidence of child labor has declined significantly over the past fifteen years, since ILRF produced Stolen Childhoods, the first feature-length film on the topic. Yet the ILO’s latest global estimates of child labor show that t…

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  Liana Foxvog, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

December 10, 2019 at 2:09 PM

Act Now: Brands Fail to Ensure Severance in El Salvador

Dear John, On March 7, 2018, the 824 workers at the LD garment factory in El Salvador lost their jobs when the factory suddenly closed without warning. The workers sewed clothes for Levi’s, Ralph Lauren, Walmart, and PVH (owner of the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands) and yet these compani…

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  Gabby Rosazza, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

December 3, 2019 at 11:56 AM

Solidarity with Honduran Workers on #GivingTuesday

Support the USLEAP Program at ILRF this Giving Tuesday Photos by ILRF, November 2019 Dear John, I write to you today from Honduras, where I have spent the past week interviewing melon workers who earn $1.27 an hour in seasonal jobs harvesting the fruit that makes corporate executives i…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

November 25, 2019 at 6:07 PM

To Eliminate Violence against Women: Build Women Workers’ Power

Dear John,   Photos from ILRF's partners on International Women's Day 2019. This summer, we made a giant step forward in our campaign for equality at work. In June the International Labour Organization passed the Convention on Violence and Harassment in the World of Work. This is a hug…

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  Gabby Rosazza, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

November 22, 2019 at 4:50 PM

Justice for Jorge!

  Demand Justice for Jorge!     Jorge's funeral in La Lima, Cortes, Honduras Dear John,  The brutal wave of killings, threats, kidnappings, beatings, torture, and disappearances of labor and social movement activists in Honduras continues, directed at Afro-Indigenous women, LGBTQI acti…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

October 26, 2019 at 3:39 PM

Why should Senators care about Halloween?

Photos by ILRF in Ivory Coast. Dear John, Halloween is my kids’ favorite holiday. They know where all the best givers are in our neighborhood and have long established that I am to wait for them to hide away their best chocolates before I get access to their candy. For me, however, Hal…

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  Kevin Lin, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

October 14, 2019 at 2:23 PM

Join Live: Union Activists Organizing and Fighting Repression in Asia

Join Live: Union Activists Organizing and Fighting Repression in Asia The International Labor Rights Forum and Labor Notes are co-hosting a webinar this Thursday Snapshots of Organizing Across Asia October 17, 2019 9:00 p.m. US Eastern REGISTER NOW FOR THE WEBINAR The International Labor Righ…

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  International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

October 11, 2019 at 6:17 PM

ILRF Fall News

October 2019 E-News Migrants Trafficked, Beaten, and Forced to Work for Free on Plantations Linked to Procter & Gamble Forced Child Labor in Cocoa; Twenty Years of Failure Forced Labor Exposed in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan’s Cotton Harvests Seafood Workers’ Rights Campaign Builds Conne…

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  Gabby Rosazza, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

October 3, 2019 at 1:21 PM

Our conversation with Bernie Sanders

Dear John, Last week, I was honored to accompany Honduran trade unionist Ahrax Mayorga to the Iowa People's Presidential Forum, held in partnership with The Guardian. At this five-hour event, low-income workers, immigrants, and grassroots leaders spoke with Elizabeth Warren, Julián Castro, Berni…

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  Liana Foxvog, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

September 11, 2019 at 1:37 PM

New Report: Pakistan's Garment Workers Need a Safety Accord

Read More In Our New Report Dear John, Seven years ago today, Ali Enterprises burned to the ground in Karachi, Pakistan, killing over 250 workers. This was the deadliest factory fire in the history of the global garment industry. Today, textile and garment factories in Pakistan remain ju…

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  Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

September 9, 2019 at 8:56 PM

Gaspar Matalaev Is Finally Free

Gaspar Matalaev Dear John, Gaspar Matalaev, recipient of ILRF’s 2019 Labor Rights Defender Award, was released from prison on September 6 after three years’ imprisonment in retaliation for his reporting on forced labor in Turkmenistan’s cotton fields. A court in Turkmenabat sentenced Gas…

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  Kevin Lin, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

September 2, 2019 at 2:47 PM

Just Back from Taipei

Dear John, This Labor Day, I’m feeling inspired, uplifted, and as committed as ever to our common struggle for global labor rights. I’ve just returned from Taipei, Taiwan, where ILRF co-organized the Labor Notes Asia Regional Conference. It was wonderful to be surrounded by over 200 rank-and-fi…

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  Gabby Rosazza, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

August 2, 2019 at 1:22 PM

100% of Your Gift Today Will Go to Laid-Off Workers’ Fund in Honduras

Give Today to the Laid-Off Workers’ Fund in Honduras Dear John,  After a decade of abuses, including toxic chemical exposure, illegal firings of pregnant workers, and failure to pay the minimum wage, a group of farmworkers in southern Honduras’ melon plantations decided that enough was …

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  Kimberly Rogovin, International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

July 2, 2019 at 2:31 PM

New blog and more from ILRF's Seafood Team

Dear John, It’s been a big month for ILRF's Seafood Workers' Rights Campaign! We made progress on: advocating for legal reforms in Thailand during the industry's annual Seafood Summit; demanding better corporate accountability standards from the Marine Stewardship Council; and learning from fro…

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  International Labor Rights Forum · [email protected]

June 28, 2019 at 7:42 PM

Welcome to the ILRF community!

If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may see it onlineDear John,   Thank you for signing up to receive campaign updates and action alerts from the International Labor Rights Forum. To take action on our current campaigns, visit http://www.laborrights.org/action-center. You can also fol…

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