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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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28 Dec 2004 05:19:55 AM |
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OT: Caribbean |
Banana workers under threat by EU tariff
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1380110,00.html
David Gow
Tuesday December 28, 2004
The Guardian
Tens of thousands of impoverished banana plantation workers and small
producers in the Caribbean and Latin America risk losing their
livelihood because of planned changes to the EU's import regime,
campaigners are warning.
Driven by the demands of European supermarket chains for low-priced
fruit, the multinational corporations controlling the global market are
already slashing wages, closing plantations and shifting to even
lower-cost countries with a non-union culture, they say. But there are
now added fears that the "race to the bottom" identified by organisers
of an international conference in Brussels in spring will be
accelerated because the EU, in settlement of a protracted trade dispute
with the US, will impose a new regime next year after fierce
negotiations at the World Trade Organisation.
Caribbean Carib Caribs
http://news.google.com/news?tab=gn&q=(Caribbean%20OR%20Carib%20OR%20Caribs)&safe=images&lr=&num=100&hl=en&
http://www.google.com/search?tab=nw&q=(Caribbean+OR+Carib+OR+Caribs)&lr=&num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=(Caribbean+OR+Carib+OR+Caribs)&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?as_oq=Caribbean%20Carib%20Caribs&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
WTO
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/951bfb2c90e5636a
EU
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/39f838ea37a2dec7
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