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This paper examines the attitude of labor unions in the U.S. toward the World Trade Organization, and why the attitude is more negative than positive. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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anything with the suggestion of "global" makes union members see red, as they talk about work disappearing overseas because it is cheaper, thereby closing American factory doors.
Members of the WTO were in for a surprise, however, when during 1999 in Seattle Washington, at the annual WTO conference, riots broke out on
the streets, causing millions in damage, thousands of arrests and many people hurt - as well as a black eye on the WTO. Although labor unions like the AFL-CIO didnt
begin the riots, they werent exactly silent during the outcry. Nor are they silent today about their feelings regarding the WTO. This
paper will examine how, precisely, American labor unions feel about the WTO, and what they would like the WTO to be and do. American Unions and Foreign Companies
Beginning in the early 1990s, there has been confrontation after confrontation between U.S. unions and foreign corporations (Shorrock, 1999). The union leaders, and perhaps
with justification, have accused foreign companies of firing workers at U.S. plants, for reasons including unfair bargaining practices (Shorrock, 1999). In a sense, European and Japanese companies with plants in
the United States seem to be able to get away with firing striking workers and organizers in ways that they just wouldnt be able to do in their home country
(Shorrock, 1999). Unfortunately, it isnt necessarily the fault of the foreign multinationals that workers rights, particularly in the United States, are being
undermined - President Ronald Reagan set the tradition of firing striking workers in 1981 when he fired striking air traffic controllers (Shorrock, 1999). As a result, the United States has
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