Jobs With Justice marks global justice week in response to WTO - 12/16/05

By Doug Cunningham

The labor rights group Jobs With Justice organized events in several cities around the U.S. for Global Justice Week in response to the WTO meeting in Hong Kong. The events protest what trade policies are doing to working families. Carlos Fernandez of Chicago's Jobs With Justice says the public here in the U.S. realizes global trade enriches multinationals at the expense of workers. And he says the next stage of turning that awareness into power to change trade policies is coming as soon as next year.

[Carlos Fernandez] : "This week of action is looking forward to the next year. The next year and a half is going to be really where we turn the tide of opinion into actual power to change how trade works."