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Gerry Connolly: “We had a $20-billion trade relationship in 2011 with Vietnam. Don't expect a labor union to exist in Vietnam because…”

On the recordMarch 6, 2012
We had a $20-billion trade relationship in 2011 with Vietnam. Don't expect a labor union to exist in Vietnam because they are crushed, not unlike the way they are crushed in the People's Republic of China.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly criticizes Vietnam's labor conditions despite significant trade relations.

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