nations. The goals of the WTO are to help producers of goods and services, importers

and exporters conduct their businesses. “We ought to have a seat at the table so we can

protect the interests of workers.” says Chuck Collins, Co.-director of United For A Fair

Economy www.cnn.com. The WTO is good and has good goals but needs to have allow

common people to have a say on the way it is run. Some people think the only way the

WTO will listen to them is to protest when they gather to discuss their future agenda.

The WTO needs to try and change the work conditions in third world countries

that do not have the benefits of other countries. There are more than 250 million children

working around the world because of poverty stricken families that have no other choice

but to have their children work, www.cnn.com, Lefevre. This causes them to receive no

education and live their life in poverty. With any new trade agreement made there should

be a provision, to prohibit the use of child labor and to manufacture products with child

labor. This could help in the reduction of child labor in other countries. If the countries

3rd. These negotiations included the WTO’s built in agenda to reduce trade barriers in

representatives to speak on their behalf at the Seattle conference,” says Collins

protesting the WTO. They protested everything from clean air, sea turtles, and child

Workers also feel they are not getting a equal say in the meetings and are not being

used rubber bullets, pepper spray, and tear gas to break up crowds of people who would

turned a bloodless issue of free trade into a major organization, fund-raising tool for a

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