May 1st

May 1st
Batay Ouvriye
Full name May 1st - Workers' Struggle Federation
Native name Intersyndicale Premier Mai - Batay Ouvriye
Founded 1996
Country Haiti
Office location Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Website www.batayouvriye.org

Batay Ouvriye is a national workers' movement in Haiti known to be active at least since 1994.

Politics

While it negotiated the first contract in the Free Trade Zone in Haiti, it agitated for workers' rights while making ideological attacks upon Haiti's democratically elected progressive Fanmi Lavalas government. In 2004 Batay Ouvriye called for the elected Haitian government to leave the country and in February of 2004 the government was overthrown. In 2005 it was found to be working with the AFL-CIO's American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS) which receives 90% of its funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the US State Department. A total funding relationship of $449,965.00 currently exists between the NED/State Dept and the ACILS grantee program with the Batay Ouvriye. Both NED documents and Solidarity Center officials acknowledge this.

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