Labor & Economic News Blog

Thursday, July 21, 2005

How CAFTA Will Quicken the Race to the Bottom for Central American Workers
Was it Divine Providence or dumb luck? The details of U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman’s plans to fund worker rights improvements in Central America came my way just when the National Labor Committee’s latest reports on the Central American labor situation arrived. Whatever the explanation, the NLC studies powerfully reenforce what every thinking person – and especially Congressional Democrats seeking pretexts to vote for the Central America Free Trade Agreement should already know: Third world workers’ lives won’t be bettered significantly, and U.S. trade policy initiatives like CAFTA can’t become win-wins for Americans and their trade partners, without radical fixes to U.S. trade policy.

 



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