Sunday, May 8, 2011

AFL-CIO presses Obama to punish Bahrain ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – "The largest U.S. labor group wants President Barack Obama's administration to suspend a free trade pact with Bahrain over human rights abuses in the kingdom's crackdown on anti-government protests.
Jeff Vogt, deputy director of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told Reuters on Friday the group has urged the administration to notify Bahrain it intends to withdraw from the trade agreement after a required six-month waiting period..."

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