The working-class history of Latin America

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Storm Clouds on the Horizon
Zoraida Portillo, IPS, 30 March 1998. The outlook for labour in Latin America is bleak, thanks to the expected negative impact of the El Nino weather phenomenon and the Asian financial crisis on jobs and growth.
Latin American Workers on Move
From Workers World, 15 October 1998. Moves by the continent's ruling classes to foist the global economic crisis on the backs of the people will meet a working class that is assertive and politically conscious.
Final Declaration: Latin American Meeting of Trade Unionists
From Lucha, organ of the Communist Party of Labor of the Dominican Republic, December-January, 1998-1999. Trade unionists from Ecuador, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic met in Santo Domingo in November, 1998, to discuss the impact of the neo-liberal policies on the working class and actions to try to confront them.
The Struggle for the Independence of the Trade Unions in Latin America Today
Statement sent by Julio Turra, representative of the Unified Workers Federation (CUT) of Brazil, to the OWC Organizing Committee in January 1999. OWC Report Back no. 18 (Brazil). Endorses the Appeal for an Open World Conference issued by the San Francisco Labor Council, the International Liaison Committee for a Workers' International and the Western Hemisphere Workers Conference Continuations Committee.
Dim Outlook Despite Economic Growth, Says ILO
By Gustavo Capdevila, IPS, 23 August 1999. Although economic growth rallied this decade in Latin America, that performance has not been accompanied by improvements with respect to jobs and wages. Safety nets failed to expand their coverage, Many informal sector workers and impoverished peasant farmers lack social benefits.
Women Workers Here to Stay
By Zoraida Portillo, IPS, 2 January 2000. Massive influx of Latin American women into the labor market and their increasingly evident contribution to the region's economies. The 1980s heralded a flood of women into the workforce due to the pressing need of families to augment their incomes as a result of the foreign debt crisis.
Banana strikers return to work
BBC News, 29 August 2001. Banana workers in Latin America have returned to work after strikes in Ecuador and Panama. In Peru, 3,250 striking employees of a subsidiary of US group Chiquita have given up their 10-day stoppage without a new deal on the table. The Sitrachilco union called the industrial action to try to force Chiquita unit PAFCO to reopen three unprofitable plantations closed in June.