Worksheet #7

Research whether, when and how the TNC you are studying has sought to use theprospect of mobility or has invoked free trade rules to make a government do what itwants. One way to do this is to investigate what subsidies states and local governments have given to a TNC at http://www.goodjobsfirst.org Another good option done in conjuction with research into subsidies is to search the newspapers of the city or cities in which the TNC has offices, factories or other facilities. Here you might find stories about how the TNC extracted these local subsidies and tax breaks using particular threats of mobility and job loss. As well as Lexis-Nexis, other good links for this are http://metalab.unc.edu/slanews/internet/archives.html and http://ajr.newslink.org/daily.html You might also try investigating whether the corporation has been mentioned in the US congress at http://thomas.loc.gov/ If you would like like to find out more about how your TNC has acted vis-a-vis environmental laws see http://scorecrd.org