The government of El Salvador released an unusually critical report of labor conditions in the country last year, only to withdraw it as "technically flawed" the next day. Charles Kernaghan's National Labor Committee made the report available yesterday as part of a campaign to pressure President Bush into including labor standards in free trade agreements. $1.6 billion in apparel was exported from El Salvador to the US last year.
See "Labor Abuses in El Salvador Are Detailed in Document", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, May 9, 2001