Posted on 04 July 2007. Tags: Auto Industry, Globalization, International Metalworkers Federation, Toyota, Toyota Motor Philippine Corporation Workers Association
   A whole lot of people love to heap praise on the way the Japanese auto companies do business. Unfortunately, the mainstream press rarely looks at the seamier side of what happens to workers for Toyota. Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation, is continuing to deny reinstatement to 136 illegally dismissed workers–even though the Supreme Court of […]
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Posted on 21 June 2007. Tags: "Free Trade", Globalization, OECD
I’m on the road out of the country so I’ve had a weird kind of schedule to post these past few days and that will continue the rest of the week. And it’s really late now so…a quickie… Checked out this piece in the Wall Street Journal from today: Free-Trade Alert: A Warning on Globalization […]
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Posted on 08 May 2007. Tags: "Free Market", "Free Trade", Globalization, Sander Levin, Trade
   Back on my particular hobby horse today on the idiotic description of the issues around trade. And, as usual, The New York Times is the reason. Robin toner has a piece today entitled “For Democrats, New Challenge in Age-Old Rift.” The article is kind of a profile of Rep. Sander Levin, who chairs the […]
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