Rep. Miller Asks U.S. Trade Rep to Assess Vietnam’s Compliance with International Labor Standards
WASHINGTON – In light of a recently released report highlighting labor rights violations in Vietnam, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the senior Democratic member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman today asking him to assess whether Vietnam is in compliance with current trade agreements.
“This report compiles the stark evidence that export industry workers in Vietnam, one of the countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, are routinely denied the basic labor standards that the United States requires from its trading partners – namely the fundamental freedom of association and right to collective bargaining that our workers take for granted and the elimination of both compulsory and child labor,” Miller wrote.
A report recently released by the Worker Rights Consortium entitled “Made in Vietnam: Labor Rights Violations in Vietnam’s Export Manufacturing Sector” outlined a number of troubling practices in the country and concluded there are pervasive violations of basic labor rights for workers in the country.
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