Red Emma’s

Please join us for a panel discussion about new strategies for organizing for worker power and efforts to build solidarity locally and globally! Don't miss this last-minute event!   Estela Ramirez is the Secretary General of the Sindicato de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores Sastres Costureras y Similares (SITRASACOSI), a national industrial union of garment workers in El Salvador affiliated to the Frente Sindical y Social Salvadoreño. She is also the Global Chairperson of the International Union League for Brand Responsibility, a coalition of garment workers’ unions in twelve countries in the Global South including Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Turkey, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka. Estela became a union activist while sewing Adidas garments at a factory called Hermosa Manufacturing, where she led an occupation of the factory to protest the employer’s theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to workers.   Gilberto Garcia is coordinator of the San Salvador-Based Centro de Estudios y Apoyo Laboral (CEAL). He has two decades of experience leading successful labor rights campaigns with workers of multinational corporations in El Salvador, Mexico, and beyond.   Mike Hachey is an organizer for UNITE HERE Local 7 in Baltimore and a member of the US Committee in Solidarity with the International Union League, a network of activists in a dozen cities in the US. Over the past two years, the committee has raised tens of thousands of dollars to fund labor organizing in the Global South and has organized actions in solidarity with successful campaigns to unionize garment factories in Central America, raise the minimum wage in Cambodia, and protest violent repression against union leaders.