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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: LABOR/CENTRAL-AM: US MAY INVESTIGATE GUATEMALAN LABOR VIOLATIONS
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- Topic 196 NNY: US May Invesitgate
- hrcoord apc.labour 8:47 am Aug 10, 1992
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- Subject: NNY: US May Invesitgate
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- 17. US MAY INVESTIGATE GUATEMALAN LABOR VIOLATIONS
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- This year the US Trade Representative's Office is expected to finally
- order an investigation into labor abuses in Guatemala. Petitions have
- been filed yearly documenting human rights abuses of union organizers
- and abuses of labor rights.
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- Even the US State Department's annual human rights review admits that
- 20 union leaders fled into exile during 1991 because of death threats
- against themselves and their families. US officials say the evidence
- has accumulated over the last few years showing that the Guatemalan
- government is not taking steps to correct the abuses.
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- The main goal of the petitions is to force a retraction of US trade
- benefits to Guatemala under the Caribbean Basin Initiative and the
- Generalized System of Preferences; these benefits have led to an
- influx of US garment companies getting their manufacturing done in
- Guatemala. [WP 8/1/92] Whatever decision is made on the trade benefits
- may soon become irrelevant, however, since Central America is next on
- the list for a direct free trade agreement with the US after Mexico
- and Chile.
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