Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to join with my distinguished colleague. Congressman DONALD J. PEASE. who has organized this much needed special order on the importance of international labor rights. In my capacity as chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Task Force on Haitian Refugees. I would like to take this opportunity to focus on the status of industrial labor rights in Haiti. A discussion of industrial labor rights in Haiti necessarily focuses upon the exportoriented assembly industry which has been touted by some observers as a dynamic sector. The exportoriented assembly industry in Haiti. according to the World Bank. employs some 60.000 people and is responsible for providing survival income for many more than that in the overcroweded slums of PortauPrince.
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