51.   Unions have long demanded that developing countries accept international labor standards as part of market-opening trade agreements.

52.   We will continue to enforce labor standards to protect workers in vulnerable industries.

53.   You talk about the importance of seeing that other countries have laws like ours to protect fair labor standards, the consumer, pure food and the environment.

54.   Presaging a rocky inaugural meeting of the World Trade Organization next week, Indonesia said Tuesday it will oppose Western calls to discuss human rights and labor standards.

55.   Plans to use the WTO to protect labor standards could hinder free trade reform, Downer said.

56.   A bitter dispute over labor standards that threatened to disrupt the meeting ended with a carefully worded compromise, enabling both camps to claim victory.

57.   A dispute over labor standards, which had threatened to disrupt the five-day meeting, ended in a compromise with both camps claiming victory.

58.   A dispute over labor standards which had threatened to disrupt the five-day meeting ended in a compromise with both camps claiming victory.

59.   A top Singaporean official, accusing rich countries of protectionism, appealed to Southeast Asian allies Monday to resist making labor standards a condition of international trade.

60.   Also contentious are demands for consideration of issues that many nations argue have nothing to do with trade, such as labor standards.