Barkley on WTO, etc

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Dec 18 08:42:01 PST 1999


Rakesh Bhandari wrote:


>Barkley would remind you of the rapid growth of the open shop in the US,
>esp. in the construction industry. The governing body of the WTO will only
>apply sanctions in order to serve the imperialist and geopolitical
>interests of its most powerful states, i.e., US threatening to invoke non
>application against China in order to win wrench more concessions in the
>socalled services, property rights, etc.

The governing body of the WTO is extremely unlikely to sanction anyone for labor rights violations. Look at the useless NAFTA labor & environmental provisions. Clinton was, in classic fashion, trying to placate a domestic constituency while doing absolutely nothing to meet their demands in fact.

Doug



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