[PEN-L:9312] Re: China & WTO; op-ed

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Max Sawicky wrote:

>I don't buy into all the statements in what
>follows, but it is a useful addition to the
>context for some PEN-L discussions.  One of
>the few areas where organized labor is fighting
>neo-liberal policy is in trade.  I would be very
>surprized if the implied view was not widely held
>by most U.S. workers, without regard to race or
>national origin.

Hey, so why doesn't organized labor do more to fight their
free-trading anti-labor president too? Folks like to make noise about
how China represses worker rights and uses prison labor, but so does
the US of A.

For a blistering ICFTU report to the WTO on U.S. labor practices, see
<http://www.icftu.org/english/els/escl99wtousa.html>.

Doug