Executive Council Statement
Fast Track or the Right Track?
… Fast Track or the Right Track? March 06, 2007 Las Vegas AFL-CIO Executive Council statement U.S. trade policy today is barreling along down the wrong track, on a route littered with broken promises and missed opportunities, threatening to jump the rails altogether. Our trade deficit hit a staggering $764 billion in 2006. Real median wages and family income … as laid out in the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work: the freedom of association and the right to organize and bargain collectively, and prohibitions on child labor, forced …