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there are fears that the ensuing marketization of these services

and the liberalization of the entry of big foreign service suppliers
usher in monopoly control over these services by a few private
service providers. For trade unions in finance, comunications,

distribution and other profit-driven service industries, fiercer
global competition means job-threatening reorganizations due

to mergers, acquisitions and consolidations or MACs involving
key foreign and local players in each service industry. There
are also those who raise the fear that countries are losing the

flexibility to nurture certain service industries for strategic or
security reasons such as water distribution service and power

generation.

Debate on the movement of
natural persons under Mode 4

Mode 4 has also generated intense debates. This time,
however, the criticism is why is GATS limiting the liberalization

in the movement of service workers only to movement of the
skilled personnel, usually managers and professionals, of big

foreign service suppliers. Why the selective policy? Why not
liberalize the movement of service workers in general? Why
not liberalize the global labor market in keeping with the WTO’s

liberalization of the markets for goods, services and other areas?

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