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Live from Chicago, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is talking about the future of the labor movement and new models of worker representation. This event is hosted by Chicago Working-Class Studies and televised and streamed by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV). Watch the livestream after the jump.
Irís Munguía began toiling at a banana packing plant at age 18, living on the banana finca (plantation) as a condition of employment. After 22 years at the plant, the longtime union activist now heads the Honduran banana and agricultural worker confederation, COSIBAH (Coordinadora de Sindicatos Bananeros y Agroindustriales de Honduras), founded in 1993. Munguía also is the first female coordinator of COLSIBA, the Latin American coordinating body of agricultural unions.
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