Tom
Andrew English wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Weiss <Lweiss at Americas.org>
> To: 'mnlabor at egroups.com' <mnlabor at egroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 12:03 PM
> Subject: [mnlabor] FW: UAW president Yokich jumps all over Gore, not
> just House, on PNTR
> See particularly the final paragraph!!!
>
> Released today:
>
> Statement by UAW President Stephen P. Yokich:
>
> President Clinton and Vice President Gore hail the U.S.-China
> agreement on
> WTO accession, "a hundred percent win" for America that will increase
> U.S.
> exports to China and create jobs for American workers. Nice words,
> but they
> made the very
> same claims for NAFTA. They were wrong then, and they are wrong now.
> On this issue of critical importance to working people -- one that
> could
> cost hundreds of thousands of American workers their jobs -- President
>
> Clinton and Vice President Gore once again have sided with
> multinational
> corporations against workers here and abroad.
> Over the past weeks, proponents of giving China PNTR have
> portrayed the
> same multinational corporations who today are exploiting the Chinese
> government's well-documented brutal repression of basic human and
> workers'
> rights to fatten profits as the champions for a more free and open
> Chinese
> society. Meanwhile, the labor movement's insistence that the Chinese
> government demonstrate progress on human and workers' rights before
> the U.S.
> Congress permanently gives up its power of annual review is dismissed
> as
> selfish, myopic, and worse.
> We are deeply disappointed that Vice President Gore has failed to
> speak
> out against these cynical attacks on the labor movement and our
> partners in
> this fight. Instead, he has tried to have it both ways on China
> PNTR. One
> moment, presidential candidate Gore is telling the labor movement that
> he
> believes human rights, workers' rights, and environmental protections
> should be included in core trade agreements; the next, Vice President
> Gore
> is holding hands with the profiteers of the world and singing the
> praises of
> the U.S.- China WTO accession agreement while lobbying for PNTR for
> China.
> And, obviously, we cannot turn to Republican candidate George W. Bush;
> his
> positions on issues of concern to working families are far worse.
> America's working families need and deserve a president they can
> count
> on to stand with them on their tough issues, not just the easy ones.
> That's
> why we have no choice but to actively explore alternatives to the two
> major
> political parties. It's time to forget about party labels and instead
> focus
> on supporting candidates, such as Ralph Nader, who will take a stand
> based
> on
> what is right, not what big money dictates. Supporting those who
> support us
> is our political agenda, not just a slogan.
>
>
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