From: pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Some business lobbyists are worried that strengthening labour
>>standards provisions in the MAI could make it harder for governments
>>to adopt policies designed to create more flexible labour markets.
>
>This is the best news I've yet heard in this long sordid saga.
>If the eventual agreement is universally condemned by multinational
>corporate investors, I would regard that as an almost unassailable
>argument for its adoption.
I have long been ambivalent about the MAI. These kinds of
international agreements have the potential to contain the
transnationals, which is something national governments can
not do.
Jay -- http://dieoff.org/page1.htm
