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Article: LABOR-U.S.: LINKING WORKERS' RIGHTS TO TRADE ACCORDS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- June 4, 1999
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Inter Press Service English News Wire
06-04-1999
WASHINGTON, Jun. 4 (IPS) -- The United States, blocked in its
efforts to promote labor rights through multilateral agencies,
should link the protection of workers' rights to all existing and
future trade and investment agreements, according to a new report.
The report, released yesterday by the Economic Policy Institute
(EPI) -- a think tank with strong ties to labor unions -- argued
that Washington should grant trade preferences only to those
countries that enforced core labor rights.
Under the plan, all countries wishing to export to the U.S.
market -- the world's largest -- would have to demonstrate that
their labor legislation and practices ...
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