so the wages for u.a.w. members up north are kind of keeping wages up north higher but the lower wablgs down south have kept these entry level wages lower. >> brown: mickey maynard and david shepardson, thank you both very much. >> pleasure. >> thanks, jeff. >> ifill: finally tonight, an egyptian novelist's perspective on his country's revolution. margaret warner talked with alaa al aswany on her recent reporting trip to cairo, before this weekend's sectarian clashes. >> reporter: in a quiet corner of cairo, dr. sway sway sway still maintains a part-time dental practice. staled way back as the demands of his other pursuit, writing, have increased. in 2002 he published his first novel "the yacoubian building" charting the lives of people in one cairo apartment house during hosni mubarak's dictatorship. aswany quickly became the arab world's best-selling writer and social conscience in his homeland. foreign translations, a movie and other books followed. aswany spent much of the egyptian uprising in tahrir squa

it's long been a value of the u.a.w. that people doing the same job should make the same rate of pay. we had to deviate from that. and this is the first contract where companies are beginning to be healthy again. none of them are totally out of the woods but they were in good enough economic shape to do $3.50 base rate increases for entry level. so we're happy with that. we'd like to see them more but we thought that was viable for the company, kept us exceptive and the lump sums and profit sharing there are not two tears. everybody's treated the same and so in actual annual income we made tremendous improvements for entry level. >> brown: but i said you had to work hard to get members to ratify in fact you faced a fair amount of dissent along the way. you had lower ratification rates than historically. you had some important plants even reject the contract. so what do you say to workers who say to you, look, we gave up a whole lot a few years ago, we don't seem to have gotten much back and they're also seeing that the c.

that's why the u.a.w. has indicated its support, because works making their cars will now be able to see that their cars can be shipped to korea. and ford has said they're going to use korea as a base to penetrate with american products the markets of the rest of asia. so that's whthis is all about. now, it won't be china getting into the u.s. it will be the u.s. getting into korea. that's really what this is all about. i want to say a word about the issue relating to -- relating to issues of transshipment. we insisted in the f.t.a. that there be provisions relating to transshipment. i want to quickly refer -- refer to them. if customs has any doubt about a shipment, it can require korean exporters to provide documentation showing that the goods qualify for f.t.a. treatment. if a korean exporter refuses or the document is not acceptable, customs can deny f.t.a. treatment to the good. u.s. customs can also do site visitsthis is something different to korean factlies -- factories to verify informion and if o

repressed but the movement continued also the sit down strikes in the mid thirty's in michigan that form the u.a.w. i mean that was occupation they occupied the factories martin luther king the poor people's campaign in sixty eight the goal was to do exactly that to come to washington and they were going to stay put they want to bring three hundred thousand people watched that they're going to occupy washington they had a major poverty build so we don't have to reinvent the wheel here and also what's interesting i think we have to reinvent the wheel with the antitrust you know but you just said it's very nice they really rico statute yeah but i mean i mean in the we're all talking we're very good at describing what's going on here rachel if i can go to you then what do we do now what do they do now. well i think if they were smart the protesters would just opt out of wall street and opt out of anything to do with the government and go out and create something whatever happened to the idea i think now the problem that we have the reason why the youth around the world specifically in western democra

he was in the u.a.w. my uncle, his sister's husband, laverne whitney was in the sit-down strike in 1936-37, which will have the 75th anniversary this year, that essentially founded the u.a.w. the u.a.w. existed before that but it was the very first contract they were able to get with a major industrial corporation. and the workers took over the factories in flint for 44 days in the middle of winter, gm turned heat, water, everything off and froze there and a lot of battles with the police, and finally, franklin roosevelt told the governor of michigan to send in the national guard and protect the workers and that was really a turning point, that helped the union get their first contract and so my dad and his brothers and the whole family, everybody worked in the factories and was very grateful for the fact that we had the union, because this union did a lot of things in terms of raising everyone's standards of living. we lived a middle class existence as a result of having just one income in the family and

that's why the u.a.w. has indicated its support, because workers making their cars will now be able to see that their cars can be shipped to korea. and ford has said they're going to use korea as a base to penetrate with american products the markets of the rest of asia. so that's why this is all about. now, it won't be china getting into the u.s. it will be the u.s. getting into korea. that's really what this is all about. i want to say a word about the issue relating to -- relating to issues of transshipment. we insisted in the f.t.a. that there be provisions relating to transshipment. i want to quickly refer -- refer to them. if customs has any doubt about a shipment, it can require korean exporters to provide documentation showing that the goods qualify for f.t.a. treatment. if a korean exporter refuses or the document is not acceptable, customs can deny f.t.a. treatment to the good. u.s. customs can also do site visits, this is something different to korean factlies -- factories to verify information

that's why it's supported by the u.a.w. it will open up markets -- that's why ford sat down today and described how they are going to penetrate the market of korea . they're determined to do that, as the other companies are. so, this is a market opening provision at long last. in that sense, a major change from the bush-negotiated agreement. i strongly urge support for the korea f.t.a. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin reserves. the gentleman from maine is recognized. mr. michaud: i yield one minute to a leader of the china currency manipulation legislation, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. crit. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. critz: i rise in opposition to the korea free trade agreement. i represent a manufacturing district and we need trade policies that put american workers first. i seen firsthand the negative effects that trade agreements have had on our manufacturing sector and this one estimated to dispolic

even some of the labor unions like u.a.w. support the south korean agreement.there is still some skepticism, some concern. understandable, understandable concern with the agreement with colombia. and as everybody in this chamber knows and a lot of people in this country know, for years labor leaders, labor organizers have been the target of assassination in colombia. according to colombia's figures, in 2001, i believe there were about 205 assassinations just in that one year alone in colombia. and the numbers are a little bit confusing because that includes folks who are not necessarily labor organizers. people who in some cases were educators, maybe members of the labor union. 205 people in one year. can you imagine in this country if 205 labor leaders, organizers were murdered in a year. that's a smaller number than us. it's a huge number. the numbers have come down. in one of our conversations yesterday with our labor leaders in delaware, one of them shared with me the number reported by the columbian government this year is, i think, 22 as of the early part

the u.a.a.w. when two sides -- u.a.w. when two sides sit down at the table and bargain for the common good. that end can be more saving, resulting in new business investment and job growth and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> mr. speaker, yesterday i had the opportunity to meet with hilltop resources, a concrete company that has a presence in my southern indiana district. they're here to talk about how the new cement mact regulations would affect their business and their work force. the cobb of production would go up 7% to 10%, a huge hit for any business. they'd have to import materials from china, materials of a lesser quality. and those increased cost would call them to scale back the american work force. can he want let the e.p.a. impose these burdensome and job-crushing regulations. when we take up h.r. 2681 later today, we have the chance to help an industry that has already been hit hard by the recession. i urge my colleagues