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labour | workers' rights
Sripai Noonsee was in despair after her latest attempt to find a job at an electronics factory at Bang Kadee Industrial Estate ended in failure like so many others. She has been jobless for many months.
China wants New Zealand to admit skilled workers on temporary permits as part of a planned free trade deal.
The benefits of trade liberalisation to consumers and society as a whole have been widely acknowledged, but the hidden costs of liberalisation must also be brought to light if the free-trade regime is to move forward.
Free trade in North America has resulted in sharp gains for the rich at the expense of the average Canadian worker, says a report from the US Economic Policy Institute released yesterday.
A leading US labour coalition and an industry group have filed a complaint with the US Trade Representative asking that it formally sanction the government of Jordan for "gross workers' rights violations" under a controversial free trade agreement with the United States and Israel.
Jack Davis remembers the night he left the Republican Party over free trade: Nov. 17, 2003, after he paid $2,000 to meet Dick Cheney at the upscale Park Lane Restaurant in Buffalo, N.Y.
The US Trade Representative has been urged by the largest US labor organization and textile group to file a complaint against Jordan for its failure to check companies from exploiting their laborers and subsequently cheating them on wages. Since the US-Jordan FTA was signed between the two nations in December 2001, this is the first time any US business group has come together with labor demanding action under the treaty.
This is the first time that a business association has formally joined in filing a worker rights case under a trade agreement. The groups called on the Bush Administration to initiate dispute settlement proceedings under the FTA that would halt gross workers' rights violations occurring in Jordan.
Uruguay Labor groups demanding higher wages and an end to Uruguayan efforts for a trade deal with Washington walked off the job for four hours on Thursday, though public transport ran normally and shops and offices stayed open.
A free-trade deal Ottawa is negotiating with South Korea could cost Canada up to 33,000 jobs -- including 4,000 in the auto industry -- this country's largest private sector union warned yesterday.
