[news] AFL-CIO Helps Defend U.S. "Security Interests"

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"The (Advisory Committee on Labor Diplomacy) is an effort to restore a process in the State Department known as 'Labor Diplomacy.' In reading reports and meeting minutes from its website, it is clear that the State Department is using U.S. labor leaders to help them target overseas unions for political purposes-and that these labor leaders readily and actively participate....There is a lot of talk within these reports of the importance of labor rights and democracy but, as can be quickly seen, workers' rights anywhere are only important if they help advance U.S. security. While great concern is expressed again and again in the report for US national security, concern for the well-being of the world's workers and any possible expressions of mutually beneficial, solidarity-based action by the AFL-CIO are all-but-absent."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/144930/105