Word: labors
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...disaster for all concerned, tarnishing the image of the city and leaving only broken windows and smashed hopes for a new round of trade accords. The World Trade Organization (WTO) conference there was plagued by overly simplistic approaches on both sides. A wiser process would be able to address labor and environmental concerns while maintaining open global commerce...
Clearly, those who promote free trade can no longer ignore its non-economic implications. The standard arguments in favor of free trade still hold: It promotes growth and interdependence and helps developing countries improve their standards of living. However, globalization has a powerful impact on questions of labor and environmental protection, and those concerned about these effects will not be persuaded by only economic arguments. The protesters in Seattle saw the WTO and free trade as representative of interests fundamentally alien to their own; the coalition for free trade can only be rebuilt taking these concerns into account, with adequate...
More important, however, the protesters' demands represented an assumption that President Clinton seemed to share, an assumption responsible in large part for the failure of the conference: that U.S. labor and environmental standards are equally desired across the globe. The U.S. no longer possesses, if it ever did, the ability to impose unilaterally its standards on the rest of the world. For developing nations to choose to implement such standards, the measures must be seen more as a means to improve their own welfare than as an outgrowth of American self-interest...
...great benefit, a great recruiting and retention tool in a tight labor market," says Doherty...
...half a century, John Morris has been the one of the toughest and most feared labor leaders in the East--he's the last of a breed who openly used violence and threats against employers and fellow unionists alike. When he traveled, he was surrounded by a squad of boxers and ex-convicts. At the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Philadelphia, the 6-ft.-wide conference tables were nicknamed "Johnny Morris tables" because they were wide enough to prevent him from jumping over them. But not even his union brothers were prepared for what they found two weeks...