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June 29, 2005

Hipwaders required

AP:

The Labor Department worked for more than a year to maintain secrecy for studies that were critical of working conditions in Central America, the region the Bush administration wants in a new trade pact.

The contractor hired by the department in 2002 to conduct the studies has become a major opponent of the administration's proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA.

The government-paid studies concluded that countries proposed for free-trade status have poor working environments and fail to protect workers' rights. The department dismissed the conclusions as inaccurate and biased, according to government and contractor documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

The Senate Finance Committee approved the CAFTA agreement by voice vote today, sending it on to the full Senate.

The Labor Department found the need to keep this taxpayer funded study secretive because it was "innacurate and biased". If it was so riddled with inaccuracies..why not show the "accurate and unbiased" studies to prove it wrong, thus showing CAFTA to be the correct thing to do?

This article cuts a wide swath of bullshit.

Posted by Carla at June 29, 2005 04:15 PM