Posted on 11/01/2007 12:50:52 PM PDT by vadum
When unions can’t win collective bargaining agreements at home, they look to U.N. agencies abroad. The AFL-CIO has a preferred legal venue—the International Labor Organization (ILO)—when Congress and the courts don’t see it their way......
Organized labor won last November’s electoral lottery. The unions officially spent $105 million and received in return a promise from the new Democratic majority to push labor’s redistributionist economic agenda. They are desperate to convince politicians to give them what they cannot win in the marketplace. The impact on domestic public policy is clear. Already the House approved a minimum wage hike as part of its “first 100 hours” program and voted to ease union organizing. But unions in the United States are also pressing their case internationally. They no longer think that improving working conditions is purely a domestic issue. Instead, they are trying to circumvent U.S. labor policies and labor law. Most notably the AFL-CIO is bent on convincing the International Labor Organization, a United Nations-affiliated body headquartered in Geneva, to support its agenda. For some union activists, the U.S. is little more than a tin-pot dictatorship that requires international oversight by U.N. bureaucrats. Presidential authority to negotiate new free trade agreements (FTAs) has expired, and the Bush administration faces strong opposition in Congress to pending FTAs with Peru, Columbia and South Korea. The Democrats have set as the price for approving any new accords the inclusion of international “labor standards.” But this could become a vehicle that allows the International Labor Organization and other international agencies to trump U.S. law and the Constitution......
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And all the Chambers of Commerce will say
“Last one out please turn out the lights.”
They want it because they know the UN is full of a bunch of communist and socialist weasels. Unions are a scourge.
I think unions had much to do with corporate outsourcing.
Yeah. Good luck with that.
BOTH the UN and AFL-CIO. It just gets worse every year. Hopefully the American public will keep an eye on this, but with Democrats in control, they will push and push until it seems to make perfect sense. May take a few years, but that’show the left has accomplished everything. Pound, pound away till they defeat the enemy, whether it’s a company or a president or a Congress. Or a habit, like smoking.
I think unions had much to do with corporate outsourcing.
They just don’t learn!
They had the best intentions.
Until they got greedy.
I think you are correct. Killing the goose that laid the golden egg deal.
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