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ButterflyBlood

(12,644 posts) Fri Feb 26, 2016, 01:08 AM Feb 2016

Thanks to these two, goods produced through forced slave labor and child have labor have been banned from import: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-bans-u-s-imports-goods-produced-slavery-article-1.2543244

It's absurd that this law existed with the loophole in it allowing for this as long as it did, but this has now been closed. Thank you very much to these two!

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Thank you President Obama. And Senator Sherrod Brown. (Original Post) ButterflyBlood Feb 2016 OP

A big, fat K&R! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2016 #2

(56,582 posts)

1. And the US is taking Guatemala to a trade court to force them to allow unionization

Fri Feb 26, 2016, 01:10 AM

Feb 2016

Previously it had always been a US union that did that; Obama is now having the administration do it.

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2. A big, fat K&R!

Fri Feb 26, 2016, 01:13 AM

Feb 2016

My admiration for Sherrod Brown knows almost no limits.

And I am very pleased that President Obama also pushed this.