Public discussion of the role of the AFL-CIO in Central America. Participants include: Dave Dyson, Director of the National Labor Committee in Support of Democracy and Human Rights in El Salvador; Charlie Kernagham, Director of ASTTEL (Salvadoran Telecommunications Workers Union); Kitty Krupat, Editor of Distributive Workers, District 65 UAW; Paul Garver, Contract Director of SEIU Local 585; Hobard Spalding, Professor Latin American and Caribbean history at Brookly College, New York. They discuss the fact that the AFL-CIO spends almost as much on foreign policy operations as domestic budget, accusations of AFL-CIO bribing union officials in Central America, and how labor organization is furthering United States foreign policy in the region.|BUILDING BRIDGES SPECIAL REPORT : THE AFL-CIO IN CENTRAL AMERICA / produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash. SERIES: Building bridges : a community-labor report| 1-12-88 Public discussion of the role of the AFL-CIO in Central America. Participants include: Dave Dyson, Director of the National Labor Committee in Support of Democracy and Human Rights in El Salvador| Charlie Kernagham, Director of ASTTEL (Salvadoran Telecommunications Workers Union)| Kitty Krupat, Editor of Distributive Workers, District 65 UAW| Paul Garver, Contract Director for SEIU Local 585| Hobart Spalding, Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at Brooklyn College, N.Y. They discuss the fact that the AFL-CIO speand almost as much on foreign policy operations as domestic budget, accusations of AFILD bribing union officials in Central America, and how labor organization is furthering U.S. foreign policy in the region. RECORDED: WBAI, 1 Dec. 1988.