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Big Labor Changes Tack

Big Labor Changes Tack 04/09/2004 03:55 PM

Labor unions in the US have traditionally been opposed to free trade based purely on protectionist agendas. The flow of jobs overseas reduces their political power, which degrades not only their influence on government but their collective bargaining power with US businesses who can simply go overseas when the cost of doing business cuts into their margins too deeply. But in a surpising change in tactics, the AFL-CIO (one of America's leading labor unions) has asked the Bush administration to determine whether trade with China actually violates free trade agreements by using government subsidies.




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