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In efforts that seem far removed from its home base back in the United States, the AFL-CIO is organizing factory workers in Cambodia. The U.S. labor organization hopes to use Cambodia as the test case to establish a minimum set of labor standards in other developing countries. Critics of the AFL-CIO’s efforts claim that the union is merely trying to prevent the loss of American jobs by imposing regulations on factories in foreign countries.