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Out of 1,896 respondents, 77 percent said that the administration is paying "too little attention to working Americans." 53 percent agreed with the statement: "I support the growth of international trade in principle, but I am not satisfied with the way the US government is dealing with the effects of trade on American jobs, the poor in other countries and the environment." Only 20 percent favored the administrations current approach to trade.

On March 16^th the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council (which includes the IBEW) released its 120-page trade petition calling upon President Bush to place sanctions on China for violating workers rights. (http://www.pipa.org/) The PIPA survey shows widespread support for workers rights in other countries, with 74 percent of the polling sample agreeing with the statement: "If people in other countries are making products that we use, this creates a moral obligation for us to make efforts to ensure that they do not have to work in harsh or unsafe conditions..."

The concern for workers rights extends to concern about the safety and environmental record of U.S. corporations that operate in other nations. Among those polled, 89 percent said that such U.S. corporations should be expected to abide by U.S. health and safety standards for workers; 87 percent believed that they should abide by U.S. environmental standards.