X-Post from Labor Group: Oppose Fast TRack for TPP, Sign Petition to your MOC
New AFL-CIO Petition Against Fast Track! Please sign, share in your circles!
Let's Stop the 'Fast Track' to Bigger Trade Deficits and Lower Wages
01/22/2014
Congress is considering new legislation that would "fast track" new trade deals, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), moving them through Congress more quickly by limiting the transparency, accountability and oversight necessary for such trade deals to serve America's working families rather than extreme corporate interests. Republicans Dave Camp (Mich.), Max Baucus (D-MT) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced the fast track legislation and AFL-CIO has launched a petition calling on Congress to oppose this undemocratic and anti-worker legislation. While proponents of these trade deals often make bold promises about the benefits of such agreements, in reality they do little more than increase trade deficits and hurt America's working families.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka recently made it clear how strongly the labor federation opposed fast track:
The Trade Promotion Authority bill submitted today by Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus and Senate Finance Ranking Member Orrin Hatch is out of date, poorly conceived and bad for American workers. For that reason, the AFL-CIO opposes this legislation in the strongest of terms and will actively work to block its passage.
Read more here and sign: http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Let-s-Stop-the-Fast-Track-to-Bigger-Trade-Deficits-and-Lower-Wages
Or go straight to the signing page: http://act.aflcio.org/c/18/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=7789
Added bonus: Did you see today's reddit discsussion/AMA on the TPP and Fast Track?
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vvdu4/we_are_an_unlikely_coalition_of_groups_including