>If the AFL-CIO were serious about protecting 'American' manufacturing jobs,
>wouldn't it be organizing around the issue of technical change rather than
>trade with China?
You mean becoming Luddites and organizing against tech change? Or in favor of better treatment of displaced workers?
> Even the AFL-CIO's anaylsis only claims that trade with China
>accounts for a small portion of manufacturing jobs lost in the US.
Where do they claim this?
> What
>accounts for the 'loss' of the others? Why is the IUC focusing
>mainly on trade?
It's easier, of course. Ditto service employment in India, which can explain no more than a tenth of the problem.
Doug