Reply #2: yes, and then [View All]

[eablair3]

and then they (the U.S. government and Presidents) supply other "dictators" with arms and weapons to be used on the overseas workers when they try to start organizing for their rights.

there is a lesseing of the laws protecting labor and the environment in the U.S. But, many places overseas that HAVE NO laws protecting workers or the environment. The U.S. and the multinaitonals pay off the leaders and arm and train the "security" forces to repress the workers and the activists. They "disappear." And, the country is then "good for business." You can exploit labor and dump toxic chemicals into the air, the water and the earth without risk of a lawsuit or any type of penalty whatsoever ikn those countries. It's "a much better climate for business."

What keeps (on a legal basis) the U.S. from passing laws that provide that corporations that do business overseas must follow the same rules in other countries that are followed here in terms of allowing employees to organize and followign environmental rules, .... or else risk lawsuits here for their actions outside this country or risk not being able to do business in the U.S.????

After all, much of the world sees these multinational U.S. corporations helping exploit them and shred their environments. Wouldn't such rules that would apply to the big corporations help "national security" by making these corporations accountable for their actions around the globe?