More bellowing

[Steve Diamond <sdiamond@xxxxxxx>]

To Carrol:

Labor rights are enforced first and foremost because of the efforts of trade
unions and workers, not governments.  If a regime of international labor
rights is ever created it will be over the objections of the U.S. government
and practically every other government in the world.

To Jim:

While "law" does, of course, allow for certain local and regional
differences this does not create gaping holes in universal principles.  The
right to free association, freedom from discrimination, prohibitions on
child labor and forced labor are widely accepted norms in international law.
I hope that you are not proposing an exception to these principles, thus
allowing nine year olds to stitch together soccer balls in a back alley
somewhere in South Asia, based on some kind of cultural relativism.


Stephen F. Diamond
School of Law
Santa Clara University
sdiamond@xxxxxxx