U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement Descends into Human Trafficking and Involuntary Servitude
May 2006
Saidan Factory: Human Trafficking and Involuntary Servitude Continue
June 12, 2006
Transcript of an interview with Saidan workers.
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Report on NLC/USW delegation to Jordan
June 13, 2006
Slideshow of photographs the NLC took during the research trip.
Progress and Failures
July 17, 2006
The State of Jordan's Garment Factories
September 27, 2006
U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement: Progress on worker rights, but much remains to be done
March 30, 2007
Serious Violations Continue in Jordan FTA factories
June 1, 2007
"Philippines: No More Workers to Jordan." --Associated Press, January 23, 2008
NLC interview with a manager at a factory in Jordan's Free Trade Zone.
Letter from leading Democrats in the House Ways and Means Committee requesting the Bush Administration investigate the NLC's findings. May 3, 2006.
Testimony of Charles Kernaghan before the U.S. House Subcommittee on International Relations Hearing on Modern-Day Slavery. June 14, 2006.
Senator Harry Reid's response to the Bush Administration blocking slave labor prohibition in the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement. July 15, 2006.
Press coverage of the situation in Jordan.
For years, the Toyota Corporation in the Philippines fought to undermine and block the right of its 1,200 employees to freedom of association and to organize. (June 2008)
