US Teamsters' leader Ron Carey became a threat to big business. He not only presided over a profound transformation of a major union situated at the heart of the economy, he took on the United Parcel Service, won, and set an aggressive
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If someone told you that the leaders of 125 nations had agreed to let 1000 or so transnational corporations take over the world and legitimise forced child labour, industrial home work, sweat shops and maybe even the "foreign
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With the support of many pro-labour Democrats, Congress overwhelmingly ratified the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the new worldwide free trade agreement. One reason for the big Democratic "yes" vote was that,