Two union leaders in Honduras were murdered in 2019, and dozens more physically attacked, threatened and harassed for their activism in advocating worker rights, according to the just-released report, The Price of Defending Freedom of Association: A Report on...

Through the Solidarity Center’s women’s leadership development, tens of thousands of workers in Honduras’s garment sector negotiated collective bargaining pacts that significantly boosted wages and provide benefits like educational funds. Credit: Solidarity Center/Stephen Wishart
COVID-19: ‘Maquila Workers Shouldn’t Bankroll Employers’
Maquila workers in El Salvador and Honduras are challenging employer attempts to use the coronavirus as a way to cut wages, layoff workers and even stop worker efforts to form unions. In Honduras, after the government on March 15 barred groups larger than 50 from...
Honduran Domestic Workers Join Newly Formed Union
Domestic workers in Honduras increasingly are exercising their rights on the job in the country, where they have few labor law protections and so are especially vulnerable to abuse. More than 100 workers recently joined SINTRAHO (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadoras del...