On Sat Apr 08 2000, Max B. Sawicky said:
> Our free- trade anti-imperialists repeatedly accuse labor's trade
> critics of racism. The only thing that has been cited here to support
> that are some unspecified allegations towards one dude -- the infamous
> Michael Dolan -- who is not a labor union person to begin with.
Bob Borosage is a labor union person, yes? His real audio interview, available at the labor union affiliated website www.ourfuture.org, has as its two basic themes the unique perfidiousness of China and the need to pry open its markets -- which he thinks the WTO can't do properly because they don't understand point one.
There's another point of the labor union argument I don't understand, which that "if we let in China, it will be impossible to ever have a working labor clause." There are already 100 third world authoritarian governments in the WTO representing 2 billion people. Why would it be easier to get them to abide by a labor clause than 1 authoritarian government that rules over 1 billion people? Especially one that's got a relatively tight grip on economic regulation for a third world government.
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com