Labor

AFL-CIO Asks Penalties Against China

Chicago Tribune | By Stephen Franklin | March 17, 2004 In an unprecedented challenge to a major trading partner, the AFL-CIO on Tuesday asked the U.S. government to apply economic sanctions against China for allegedly operating an abusive, low-pay system that has cost thousands of American jobs.

The Political Economy Of Outsourcing

The Hindu | March 15, 2004 IT IS a horror staring at U.S. professionals these days - the horror of receiving pink slips and their jobs going to lowly recruits abroad. They blame it all on outsourcing. Indeed, there are reasons for their despondency.

A Mexican Worker Dies Each Day

Associated Press | By JUSTIN PRITCHARD | March 14, 2004 The jobs that lure Mexican workers to the United States are killing them in a worsening epidemic that is now claiming a victim a day, an Associated Press investigation has found. Though Mexicans often take the most hazardous jobs, they are more likely than others to be killed even when doing similarly risky work.

Jobs: Desperately Seeking Answers

Business Week | By Richard S. Dunham and Mike McNamee, with Howard Gleckman and Paul Magnusson | March 8, 2004 Jobs and the economy are voters' top issues -- but both parties' plans are flawed