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U.S. to probe Bahrain labor rights concerns – AFL-CIO
WASHINGTON, June 16 | Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:22pm EDT

(Reuters) – The Obama administration has agreed to investigate concerns raised by the AFL-CIO labor federation that Bahrain has failed to live up to its obligations to protect workers rights under a free trade pact with the United States, the labor group said on Thursday.

“The egregious attacks on workers must end, and the Bahraini government’s systematic discrimination against and dismantling of unions must be reversed. These actions directly violate the letter and the spirit of the trade agreement,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement. (Reporting by Doug Palmer; editing by Anthony Boadle) …source