Topic: a study in political corruption-labour cost
redshift
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posted 09 January 2004 02:17 PM
we have an opportunity under the auspices of a possible political drug money vote sale, to ask some hard questions and demand an accounting. and i have no confidence at all in the ability of the existing police force or government political will to adequately or thoroughly expose and excise the cost to working people of "economic strategy". or to make good on the market promise of regulatory approval. we should have an ILO aspect and voice in an international investigation, given the global nature of business in health-care, utilities and tranportation. there is always a cost and those generated through illegal political and economic activity must be accounted for. and see what comes bobbing up of the bottom , or slumps out of the closet. follow the stink on the money.
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radiorahim
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posted 09 January 2004 07:33 PM
Some of the international trade union secretariats have done work in this area.
I recall thumbing through a copy of the International Transport Workers Federation (I think that's what its called) magazine and reading some stuff on the conditions of workers aboard ships flying "flags of convenience".
Worse still there was a CBC TV documentary a while back on the port in India where workers tear apart old ships for scrap metal. The working conditions were out of the 18th century...let alone the 19th century.
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