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Unocal Does Not Use Forced Labor
The Los Angeles Times; Los Angeles, Calif.; Nov 8, 1998; 

Sub Title: 
                   [Home Edition]
Edition: 
                   Record edition
Section: 
                   Business; PART- C; Financial Desk
Start Page: 
                   10
Page Count: 
                   0
Text Word Count: 
                   450
Document Type: 
                   Letter to the Editor
Source Type: 
                   NEWSPAPER
ISSN: 
                   04583035
UMI Article Re. No.: 
                   ANGE-2713-162
UMI Journal Code: 
                   ANGE

Abstract:
The story on the recent Department of Labor report concerning labor
practices in Burma
{"U.S. Bolsters Labor Charge Against Unocal," Oct. 23} gives undeserved
visibility to a
seriously biased and deliberately misleading discussion of the Yadana
natural gas pipeline
project, in which Unocal is an investor.

Two years ago, the U.S. State Department issued a report on human rights in
Burma that
contradicts the Labor Department's "findings" about the Yadana Project. The
State
Department report noted that "during 1996 there were repeated allegations
that forced labor
was used on a project to build a pipeline across the Tenasserim Region. The
preponderance of
the evidence indicates that the pipeline project has paid its workers at
least a market wage."