Posts tagged Bureau of International Labor Affairs

    AAFA reacts to cancellation of labor rights contracts

    April 1, 2025 // Among the U.S. contracts canceled were the Global Better Work Program and Better Work Global, which were designed to improve working conditions and enforce labor rights in Haiti, Jordan, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam, per the AAFA release. ILAB was the sole funder of the Better Work Haiti and Better Work Jordan programs, an AAFA spokesperson said in an email. On Tuesday, the AAFA, which represents more than 1,000 fashion industry members, also signed onto a group letter sent to the U.S. Secretary of Labor urging for the reinstatement of the recently rescinded ILAB contract to improve labor rights in the Uzbekistan cotton industry.

    Op-ed: Small Business Administration should fight for entrepreneurs, not unions

    June 24, 2022 // Nonetheless, a recent Freedom Foundation analysis of SBA’s PPP loan database identified 223 loans totaling $36.1 million made to labor unions and related organizations between March 2020 and March 2021 that, as mostly 501(c)(5) nonprofit groups, were not eligible to participate in the program. The recipient list included a dozen teachers unions and advocacy groups, such as the Michigan Education Association and the Memphis-Shelby County Education Association, ironically among the fiercest champions of lockdown policies, the effects of which PPP funds were intended to alleviate. Alabama State Employees Association, Maryland Public Employees Council, Alaska AFL-CIO, Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, Isabel Guzman, Small Business Committee,