Brussels, 11/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) has expressed concern about the social impact that negotiations begun on 28 February could have within the framework of Doha talks. According to ICFTU, “one of the most alarming proposals on the table” is the request from China and India to take the concept of wage parity that some countries have specified in their offers out of the negotiations on worker posting. If adopted, “the proposal would mean that workers from developing countries would be contracted to work in industrialised countries for a quarter or even less of the local wages. This would do nothing but contribute to social dumping, provide racists with a soapbox and increase people's fears of globalisation”, ICFTU warns. Also, it deplores the fact that negotiation on services “undermines the universal human right of access to education, health and water”. “A democratically elected government must have the right to provide its people with quality public services, and to increase regulation of multinational service providers if need be, without fearing they will be taken to court at the WTO as a result”, it concludes.