WTO, labor standards, and developing countries

[Tom Lehman]

Doug, at the time and from a pretty authoritative source, the word that I got was
that those fellows were conventioneers on a junket.  Btw, a conventioneer is a guy
who lives to go to conventions and raise a little hell, get away from the wife and
the kids, and maybe get lucky.

As far as the "so-called" CIA connection & the AFL-CIO; my take on that was in
reality it was more of a place to park your not too bright brother-in-law or other
relative who needed a job. No questions asked.  I shared the story with you about
the union worthy who claims he can stand out in front of any big city hotel for 10
minutes and be approached by at least one ex-CIA agent trying to bum a smoke from
him. :o)

Tom

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Tom Lehman wrote:
>
> >Or maybe you recall when the four AFL-CIO conventioneers got machine gunned in
> >Latin America some years ago.
>
> Was that back when the AFL-CIO was working with the CIA? They've
> mostly disbanded that stuff now, haven't they?
>
> Doug