I have not personally been to Jordan. I have been to other countries in the region: Kuwait, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates.
The AFL-CIO has a sister organization called the Solidarity Center, which has offices around the world and maintains programs in about 60 developing countries. We do have offices in the Middle East region and have frequent contact with workers and worker organizations throughout the Middle East. Much of our information comes either directly from our field offices in those areas or from the reporting of the International Labour Organization and the International Trade Union Confederation, an umbrella organization of all trade unions in the world, as well as from other credible international sources.