Unions Look South

Spalding, Hobart A.

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“…This ensured the harnessing of the noncommunist international labor movement to the economic and political agenda of the U.S. establishment in both the West and the Third World. There were particular consequences for the other Americas in these arrangements (Spalding, 1988: 1): Organized labor's support for U.S. expansionist policies dates back to the 19th century. But it was the Cold War that gave the AFL-CIO a seat on the foreign policy team, with a mandate to limit communist influence on labor abroad.…”

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Americanizing Labor

Austin

2004

Latin American Perspectives

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We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustees under God, of the civilization of the world. God has not been preparing the English speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain [and] idle contemplation and self admiration. No! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savages and senile people. —U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge, ca. 1890

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Americanizing Labor

Austin

2004

Latin American Perspectives

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“…AIFLD undermined militant labor unions and established conservative pro-government unions that supported U.S. foreign and economic policies in many different nations (Armstrong ct al. 1989;Barry and Prcusch 1990;Cantor and Schor 1987;Morris 1967;Scott 1978;Spalding 1988aSpalding , 1988bSpalding , 1992Weintraub and Bollinger 1987;Herod 1997b). For example, AIFLD wa<; active in El Salvador in the 1980s (Spalding 1992).…”

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Cross-Border Labor Organizing in the Garment and Automobile Industries: The Phillips Van-Heusen and Ford Cuautitlan Cases

Armbruster

1998

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ABSTRACT:The globalization of the world economy has created new opportunities for cross-border labor organizing. In this paper I examine two case studies of cross -border labor organizing. One ca<;e involves Phillips Van-Hernen (PVH) workers in Guatemala City, and the other Ford automobile workers in Cuautitlan, Mexico. The PVH ca<;e illustrates the potential for cross-border labor organizing in the highly mobile garment industry. Th e PVH workers' union and their cross-border allies adopted a "strategic cross-border organizing model" that included consumer and trade pressure, an active international trade secretariat, and several other strategies, to achieve an amazing victory. However, the Ford Cuautitlan ca<;e demonstrates that corporatist state-labor relations and internal union conflicts have limited cross-border organizing in the automobile industry. Th ese two case studies and their different outcomes have many important lessons for academics and activists interested in cross-border labor organizing.

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“…In 1944, George Meany along with David Dubinsky, Jay Lovestone, and Max Green organized the Free Trade Union Committee (FTUC). Working closely with first the OSS and then the CIA, the FTUC intended to carry out the anti-leftist foreign policy interests of both the U.S. State Department and the AFL leadership (Spalding, 1988;Buhle, 1999;Scipes, 2000). State Department initiatives in Europe were meant to outmaneuver left wing unions, giving the advantage to better-funded, pro-business, pro-American unions (Moody, 1997: 227-231;Buhle, 1999: 139).…”

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AFL-CIO China Policy

Frutiger¹

2002

Labor Studies Journal

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The issues of most favored nation (MFN) status and permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China have sparked a great deal of discussion within not only U.S. labor circles, but American society as a whole. The AFL-CIO, as the central voice of U.S. labor, has taken a particularly vehement stand against normalizing trade relations with China based on China's abysmal human rights record. This article is an attempt to examine that stand in relation to the AFL-CIO's history of Cold War, anti-communist activism, and the nature of free trade as put forth by such international economic entities as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the World Bank. Is it fair for the AFL-CIO to single out China for issues that most members of the WTO and World Bank are themselves guilty of, too? Does

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Unions Look South

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Americanizing Labor

Americanizing Labor

Cross-Border Labor Organizing in the Garment and Automobile Industries: The Phillips Van-Heusen and Ford Cuautitlan Cases

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