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Source: Statesmanjournal.com Congressman Kurt Schrader seems to be confused. On the one hand, he says he opposes trade deals that extend greater rights to foreign investors than exist for Oregonians doing business in our state. On the other hand, he is supporting a massive new free trade agreement with South Korea that does just that. Congress is expected to vote on the Korea Source: Ticotimes.net Friday, June 10, 2011 The Mallon Oil Company is pressuring Laura Chinchilla’s government to allow for oil and natural gas exploration within Costa Rica. U.S.-based Mallon Oil Company invoked the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) to pressure Costa Rica’s government to sign a contract that will allow for exploration of oil and natural gas in the northern part of the country, Source: LABORnotes Mischa Gaus June 9, 2011 Bo McCurry’s union tried everything. Wage cuts that dropped pay to $12 an hour. Higher health insurance costs. Letting the company bring in an automated assembly line and a “lean manufacturing” program that pumped out product 98 percent on time. Quietly putting up with the ankle spurs and carpal tunnel produced by that management-by-stress system. Everything Source: FOCO The 8th June, the Citizen Participation Forum for Justice and Human Rights, FOCO, along with the Asociación Ecologista Inti Chuteh (San Juan); Asamblea Popular por el Agua (Mendoza); Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos de La Matanza; Bienaventurados los Pobres (Catamarca); Conciencia Solidaria al Cuidado del Medio Ambiente, el Equilibrio ecológico y los derechos humanos Asociación Civil (San Juan); National Deputy Victoria Source: Ec.europa.eu As part of the increased public interest on European investment treaties that has followed from the Lisbon Treaty, the EU Commission has initiated a public consultation process on the future investment relationship between EU and China. This includes an online questionnaire posted on its website asking about the need for an EU-China BIT; its potential impact on human rights and environmental regulation, |
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