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"The bilateral agreement would require Vietnam to change laws or enact new ones to allow workers to form unions independent of the governments, and they would empowered to strike not only over wages and hours but also over working conditions and rights.

The grass unions would not have to join Vietnam's government, but they could affiliate with each other and seek assistance from any 'international worker organisations' like the A.F.L.-C.I.O., for help and training."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/business/international/trans-pacific-trade-deal-tpp-vietnam-labor-rights.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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http://monthlyreview.org/2005/05/01/labor-imperialism-redux-the-afl-cios-foreign-policy-since-1995/

http://web.archive.org/web/20010302114930/http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/scipes2.html

http://www.thenation.com/article/labors-cold-war/

http://onestruggle.net/2013/05/01/questioning-labor-imperialism-in-egypt/