So it is not enough to push a corporate trade agrenda
but now the administration has given up on even trying to get any part of the "global value chain" for America's working families? Thanks USTR Micheal Froman. You're a real mensch. Not.
When will our trade negotiators start doing what they tell us they are doing in these deals: creating US jobs?
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Do U.S. Workers Really Have to Rely on Canadian and Mexican Negotiators to Look Out for Our Jobs?
09/22/2015
Throughout 2014 and 2015, the Barack Obama administration and cheerleaders for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have bragged about the “job creation” effects of the TPP. Others have been more skeptical, including the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Those who believe that the TPP will destroy more jobs than it creates have plenty of evidence to support our claim based on prior trade deals (nearly 700,000 U.S. jobs displaced due to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); 75,000 U.S. jobs displaced by the more recent Korea Free Trade Agreement; and the 3.2 million U.S. jobs displaced to China since it joined the World Trade Organization trade deal).
When the TPP’s backers say “this time it’s different,” it is hard to prove them wrong—given the secrecy of the negotiations. But it seems like every trade agreement the U.S. trade representative negotiates gets sold to unsuspecting Americans as the “best ever,” and the TPP is no different.
This time, negotiators from Canada and Mexico have called foul while there is still time to act—and we’re lucky they did.
More at link: http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/Do-U.S.-Workers-Really-Have-to-Rely-on-Canadian-and-Mexican-Negotiators-to-Look-Out-for-Our-Jobs
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