Executive Council Statement
Trade and Manufacturing: Real Change Is Needed
… Chicago AFL-CIO Executive Council statement America continues to run up a mounting international debt as we face a flood of unfairly priced imports. Meanwhile, American products often … of domestic laws and regulations—affecting clean air and water, the minimum wage, the abolition of child labor, the right to organize and bargain collectively, a safe and healthy workplace, safe consumer products and safe food, to note just … around the globe bid against other workers for a piece of the pie while the companies rake in the profits from their hard work. And the World Trade Organization (WTO) often become the venue not to enforce U.S. rights but to undermine them, as …