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Committee on Education and the Workforce
Representatives George Miller, Robert Andrews Ask IMF to Clarify Its Labor Policies after Seeing Complaints
March 23, 2004Two senior Democratic members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee today sent a letter to International Monetary Fund acting director Anne Krueger requesting information into allegations that an IMF security contractor was engaged in union-busting activities.
Employees of Wackenhut, Inc., the security contractor, filed separate complaints earlier this month with the National Labor Relations Board alleging that the firm had illegally interfered with union organizing activities. The complaints further alleged that Wackenhut suspended employees for participating in union organizing activities.
“At a time when it is the expressed policy of the United States government to encourage the formation of labor unions as a means of promoting and evaluating the strength of democracy in developing nations, these complaints raise very troubling questions about IMF labor policies,” wrote Representative George Miller (D-CA), the committee’s senior Democrat, and Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ), the senior Democrat on the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
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