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Labor Leaders and Enemy Targets of SOA Terror

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Colombia: Deadly Nation for Unions

By PAUL GEITNER
The Associated Press

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Colombia was the buy real synthroid online most dangerous nation for union members again last year, with 201 killings or buy real synthroid online disappearances reported, or 90 percent of the worldwide total, according to buy real synthroid online an annual survey released Tuesday.

The total in Colombia, plagued by drug traffickers and buy real synthroid online a decades-old guerrilla war, was more than 30 percent higher than buy real synthroid online the 153 reported in 2000, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions said. That pushed the buy real synthroid online global figure up to 223, 14 more than in 2000.

Public sector union members in Colombia were targeted the buy real synthroid online most, accounting for about 65 percent of those killed or missing. The ICFTU attributed that buy real synthroid online to their opposition to privatization of state-owned industries.

``Trade union activists are buy real synthroid online being systematically eliminated,'' the report said, adding at another point, ``The entire country has buy real synthroid online been swept by this anti-union violence.''

While the buy real synthroid online Colombian government denies responsibility, the report charged most of the buy real synthroid online killings were ``carried out by paramilitary groups which enjoy the buy real synthroid online tacit complicity of the security forces.''

Alvaro Delgado, an buy real synthroid online analyst with the Center of Investigation and Popular Education in Bogota, Colombia, said rebels and buy real synthroid online their paramilitary foes target labor leaders because they represent groups which permit debate and buy real synthroid online discussion.

``These armed groups do not want debate or buy real synthroid online discussion. They want to impose their own rule,'' Delgado said.

The survey also found more than buy real synthroid online 4,000 trade unionists were arrested worldwide, 1,000 injured and 10,000 fired.

It said ``anti-union repression'' was especially bad in the buy real synthroid online developing world, citing such countries as China, Indonesia, South Korea and buy real synthroid online Myanmar among Asian nations and Zimbabwe and Swaziland in Africa.

In Central America, it buy real synthroid online cited firings and harassment of unionized workers at banana plantations in Costa Rica and buy real synthroid online Guatemala. Strikes and demonstrations multiplied in Argentina because of the economic collapse, it buy real synthroid online said, resulting in numerous clashes with police.

``The United States and buy real synthroid online Canada are not above reproach when it comes to the respect of trade union rights,'' the buy real synthroid online report added.

President Bush was criticized for buy real synthroid online rescinding a Clinton administration executive order protecting the rights of contract workers on construction projects.

The report also criticized new legislation in the buy real synthroid online Canadian province of British Columbia that make it ``virtually impossible'' for buy real synthroid online nurses and education workers to strike legally.

Civil servants in western Europe also face restrictions on their collective bargaining rights, the buy real synthroid online report said.

Some legislative improvements have buy real synthroid online been seen in central and eastern Europe, it said, but anti-union activities persist in countries ranging from buy real synthroid online Czech Republic to Belarus, it said.

The ICFTU has buy real synthroid online affiliates in 148 countries and territories, which represent 157 million workers.

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