He talked about that on This Week last Sunday. When asked if he was against free trade agreements, he replied he supports trade agreements, but they needed to be fair.
He explains it here:http://www.abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2829840
I remember thinking "way-back-when" that I had somehow become more conservative than my old man in talking about how we should have "free trade" and global competition, etc.
He sat me down and explained how having China government industries using basically slave labor to produce materials and goods to compete with ours is not "free trade" or true market competition.
On the other hand, having to pay a bunch of money to non-working union employees sure tends to make one look elsewhere for hired help - or for less expensive goods.
Thanks for clearing that up. The writer of this article needs to be encouraged to learn how to write "fair trade".