Administration rejects China labor probe

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The Bush administration, citing evidence of progress by China to improve labor rights, announced Friday it had rejected a petition to begin a trade investigation into Chinese labor practices.

The decision turned down a request filed in June by the AFL-CIO and two members of Congress who contended the Chinese were violating international labor standards and costing 1.24 million American jobs.

In a statement issued by the office of U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab, the administration said engagement with China was producing evidence of real progress that labor conditions were improving in China and launching a trade investigation was not the best way to proceed.


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[krispos42]

1. Gee... I'm just shocked that is humitarian administration...

...with such an envionable record of human rights and middle-class priorities would simply stick its collective head in the sa....

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Sorry, I tried to hold a straight face!

No surprise there; China owns a trillion dollars in US gov't bonds! Gotta keep the foreign bankers happy, right?

[Vidar]

2. Slave labor used to be a big deal.

[Mr_Spock]

3. They shut down all 6 of our engineering locations last week,

I'm out of a job to people who will work for nothing & who are treated like shit. I hate this fucking country.

[ckramer]

4. Want to look at the labor practice? Look no further

Here is the mirror.

Attacking China is totally red-herring. China is not a state of USA. Blaming China for our job loss is so laughable.

How about attacking the greedy US corporations and the do-nothing Congress?

[Mr_Spock]

5. Oh, I blame the business traitors who are being proped up by corporatist

RW Congress. I think the businessmen who are doing this should be executed for treason myself. It wouldn't hurt if our government showed SOME interest in cracking down on China which would make it less appealing for the business traitors to ship so many of our good tech jobs over there.

[wicket]

6. kick

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[UrbScotty]

7. Don't want anything bad to come about Dick DeVos (nt)