But Drummond reportedly has a more sinister history when it comes to worker repression.
There, activists denounced the "silent invasion" of U.S. troops in Costa Rica, declared their opposition to worker repression in Panama, and criticized the Lobo government in Honduras for its clampdown on the opposition.
But if the experience of Modi's rule in Gujarat is anything to go by, it will involve crony capitalism that promotes and incentivises big business through all sorts of explicit and implicit subsidies, keeping wages low and suppressing any workers' action, repression of popular movements and cracking down on dissent.
At the Alliance for Workers Against Repression Everywhere (AWARE), we are working to expose U.S. trade relations with companies like Qatar Airways and countries like its namesake that abuse their workers and deny their human rights.
argues that this illegal repression of workers' rights translates into a 43percentt cost advantage on average for China.
Rises were long overdue after years of repression, but workers enjoyed total job security, and had no notion that wages should bear some relation to productivity.
Earlier this year, American trade unions demanded an investigation into the allegedly unfair trade advantage China gains from its "repression of workers' rights", under a trade-law provision called Section 301.
Thea Lee, policy director and chief international economist at the AFL-CIO, rightly noted this distinction when she explained that the union's claims against China were not about the country's "right to compete in the global economy on the basis of low wages," but about the "incremental cost advantage that comes from the brutal and undemocratic repression of workers' human rights".
Six days later, Cleveland -- facing worker protests for his repression of the Pullman strikers -- signed a bill creating Labor Day as an official national holiday in September.
To condemn what they described as government repression against unemployed workers demanding jobs, food and medicine, teachers joined government workers in the strike, leading to the closing of many schools in the capital area.
