Introduction
Occupational safety and health was a major concern of organized
labor in last year's legislative debate over the North American Free Trade
Agreement and the successful fight by organized labor several years ago to
include labor standards such as health and safety among the sanctionable trade
violations by nation's doing business with the United States. But very little
coverage of these debates focused on anything but the horse-race politics
involved. It was hard to find a story that dealt with the fear of workers -
union or non-union - who worried that without health and safety protections
they might lose their jobs to countries that paid little attention to such
niceties. Or perhaps worse, that their own employers, under increasing
international competitive pressures, would cut corners with the health and
safety of employees in the U.S.
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