Nancy L. Johnson: “this is how we answer that little girl. We tell her the world that she is going to work in is going to be a world in…”

“this is how we answer that little girl. We tell her the world that she is going to work in is going to be a world in which there will be better labor laws better enforced. For the very first time ever, the International Labor Organization spent 1 year working with these countries to upgrade their labor laws, and, everyone agrees, their labor laws meet the core standards of the ILO. For the very first time ever, the ILO is going to be the enforcement mechanism to see that those laws are enforced as enforcement is always the weakness. Always the weakness. Many of you voted for the Jordan Free Trade Agreement. Many of you voted for the Moroccan Free Trade Agreement. Not nearly as good of a body of laws in those countries, and the enforcement was: You must be making efforts towards; you must be striving to enforce. In this labor agreement, in CAFTA, the ILO will come in and review every 6 months and publicly report every 6 months: Are you implementing the plan? Now, they have written the plan. You can see whether they will have implemented the plan, because it is laid out, how many inspectors, and so on and so forth. It is all detailed. They will be accountable for implementing those plans. Those Presidents whom we met with were proud that they are upgrading their labor law and upgrading their enforcement. This is capacity- building.…”