January 8, 1990 the AFL-CIO and the CIA organized and financed an assault on the Ford Mexico City assembly plant workers. The object was to remove a militant union leadership that was challenging Ford. Many workers were injured and one killed by this assault ...

As I explain in my presentation, I’ve been active with the U.S. solidarity efforts since 2019 with organizers associated with the Latino Workers Leadership Institute and the Autoworker Caravan and, more recently, with Labor Notes and the Mexico Solidarity Project. It’s as part of the latter engagement (with some great trade unionists), that I became aware that the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center was playing a pivotal role. While workers can be grateful for any support in their struggles against the transnationals, the SC’s involvement brings into question its role in the international working-class movement against U.S. world domination ...

There is enormous evidence to show AFL-CIO complicity in the overthrow of democratic governments elected fairly by the people of Latin America and the Caribbean. Well-documented facts’ suggest that we of the AFL-CIO allowed our powder to be used to bring about the murderous coup in Chile which outlawed the Chilean labor movement killed tens of thousands and abolished the civilian and human rights of the people. If such is allowed it sorely diminishes our stature as trade unionists. If such decisions were made behind closed doors in our Washington offices, they must be brought out and questioned, reviewed and ...