With trade ministers from around the world gathering in Cancun, Mexico, this week for a key round of negotiations under the World Trade Organisation (WTO), labour unions are complaining loudly that workers rights have been excluded from the agenda. Globalization has the potential to bring prosperity to people across the world, but today's crude, free market globalization is pushing standards down and leading to massive exploitation," said the ICFTU's General Secretary, Guy Ryder, who will be observing the Cancun meeting.