Media Advisory: Ken Georgetti Comments on Trade Deal With Colombia

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 10, 2010) - Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, will be available for media comment on the federal government's decision to reintroduce enabling legislation for a trade agreement with Colombia.

Canadian labour and civil society groups have opposed a trade agreement with a country that has the worst human rights record in the Americas and a history of violent suppression of trade unionists.

The Canadian Labour Congress, the national voice of the labour movement, represents 3.2 million Canadian workers. The CLC brings together Canada's national and international unions along with the provincial and territorial federations of labour and 130 district labour councils.