George is really good when he talks about the conditions of steelworkers around the world. I've heard him on the "social costs of doing business" and it's great stuff.
Giving the facts to the Senate Finance committee is pretty dry stuff---facts are facts.
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Tom L.
"D. L." wrote:
> To whom...,
>
> It makes me uncomfortable to see a labor leader acting as a frontman for
> domestic capitalists. After all, Japanese and Korean steelworkers are
> relatively well paid compared to industrial workers in the rest of the world
> and if steel is being dumped from those countries, that represents some sort
> of subsidy to keep steel and steelworkers alive in those countries. The
> problems in steel appear to be two. First, there is probably slightly more
> than adequate capacity worldwide. Second, unions in developed nations have
> not kept up their commitment to organizing workers in less developed
> nations. Thus the threat is not *from* Japanese and Korean steel companies
> but *to* Japanese, Korean and American steel workers from the Red mandarins,
> Nomenklatura of Kazakstan and Russia, and elitist thieves of Brazil who are
> making steel an industry with third-world wages. World War Two rhetoric is
> out of place from a person who should be building solid relationships among
> steel workers.
>
> It's all very well for Becker to cry foul on trade policy, but the
> leader of a trade union should be talking about worker power first.
>
> peace