AFL-CIO & WTO

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 8 08:20:16 PDT 1999


I just spoke with someone with good contacts within the AFL-CIO who says the Seattle Weekly article I forwarded here the other day - the one reporting that labor had pretty much withdrawn from the WTO battle - is hogwash circulated by self-aggrandizing Naderites who want to position themselves as the authentic militants (and cardboard dinosaurs are an important part of any such strategy). The major difference, says my source, between the AFL-CIO and the other groups is that the Federation wants labor standards incorporated into any new trade agreements, and the others don't because to do so would lend the WTO legitimacy, when all they want to do is snuff the WTO entirely.

I'm not vouching for the truth of any of this, but it seems worth reporting.

Doug



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