Labor Department Cover Up on CAFTA

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AP News Reveals Labor Department Cover Up on CAFTA Study; Senate Finance Committee Sends CAFTA Vote to Senate Floor
29 June 2005



AP News released a story today that the Labor Department had been blocking the release of a study “critical of working conditions in Central America.” No irony lost here that this comes out as the Senate prepares to cast the vote on CAFTA as early as tomorrow.

The Senate Finance Committee gave CAFTA a narrow nudge to the Senate floor today, but not without protest from those on the committee opposed to CAFTA.

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.

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