What are the effects of WTO-GATT in the labor in the Philippines?

Question

What are the effects of WTO-GATT in the labor in the Philippines?

Answer 1

WTO, using GATT, has the responsability to avoid that the pressures of globalization on companies to achieve global competitiveness, not only in Philippines, but in all over the world, has led some to cut back, not only on their workforce, but also the conditions under which their workers toil. The havoc wreaked by the Asian financial crisis has rightly raised fears of a downward spiralling of wages and working conditions and of disruption or worse in their communities. But many other companies are responding to the crisis in the same way that they responded to earlier times of growth and prosperity, through policies of corporate social responsibility.

Answer 2

Judging from Dateline last night where Philippino women were sold into s*x slavery - not good!