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China Cancels Meeting On Workers Rights December 12, 2004 The government of the China has revoked the visas of business and labor leaders who were scheduled to attend a meeting to review that nations record on workers rights. The meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a group of 30 nations that grew out of the Marshall Plan at the end of World War II. It was called to consider issues, including health and safety protections, discrimination, child and forced labor and workers rights to organize. AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, one of the labor leaders due to attend the meeting expressed "deep disappointment" with its cancellation. Sweeney said, "Every day, multinational corporations shift production to China. It is critically important that foreign investors observe the Multinational Enterprise Guidelines of the OECD and that foreign-direct investments assist in improving working conditions, union recognition and health and safety standards." Sweeney urged the Chinese director general of international cooperation to reschedule the OECD meeting. He stated, "The planned Beijing OECD seminar offered an extraordinary opportunity for more than 80 participants to launch a dialogue on how the promotion of internationally accepted standards for corporate responsibility can improve and benefit Chinese economic development." John Evans, general secretary of the trade union advisory group of the OECD said: "This is the right time, not the wrong time, to discuss the rights of workers in China. Labor standards of Chinese workers are in the world spotlight and that spotlight is not about to be turned off." For more information on the OECD, visit www.oecd.org.
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