Stop These Trade Deals

[Omaha Steve]

We need jobs. Not unfair trade agreements.

Millions of people who are ready, willing and able to work are unemployed or underemployed. But instead of focusing on job creation, Congress is getting ready to take up unfair, job-offshoring trade deals.

With more than 25 million people desperately searching for full-time jobs, the last thing our leaders should focus on is these unfair trade deals. It’s the wrong thing to do, and it’s a huge distraction from our jobs crisis.

Tell Congress: Get moving on jobs, and drop these unfair trade deals. Then, be ready to join our national call-in day this Tuesday. With your help, we’ll make our voices heard by flooding Congress with calls and messages.

Take action here: http://act.aflcio.org/c/18/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2917

Here’s why the three pending trade agreements are a bad deal for working families:

The Korea agreement is the biggest trade deal since NAFTA. It would displace an estimated 159,000 net U.S. jobs, mostly in manufacturing.

Colombia is the most dangerous place in the world for trade unionists. So how can we reward it with a free trade agreement? In 2010, 51 trade unionists were assassinated in Colombia—more than in the rest of the world combined. So far in 2011, another 22 have been killed, despite Colombia’s heralded “Labor Action Plan.” Would we reward a country where 51 CEOs were killed last year?

And Panama, with a history of failing to protect workers’ rights, is known as a tax haven for money launderers and tax dodgers.

Past trade deals like NAFTA have been miserable failures for working people—and these new deals follow in NAFTA’s footsteps. Working people need to make our voices heard.

Please e-mail Congress now. Then get ready to join our national call-in day this Tuesday. With your help, we’ll flood Congress with calls and messages to make our voices heard: http://act.aflcio.org/c/18/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2917

In Solidarity,

Richard L. Trumka
President, AFL-CIO

[MannyGoldstein]

1. This should be on the front page

These "free" trade deals are a catastrophe, but for some reason folks don't get all excited.

[PA Democrat]

2. K & R

[Michigan-Arizona]

3. K&R n/t

[Angry Dragon]

4. R&K

[xchrom]

5. Recommend

[FreakinDJ]

6. K&R - thanx Steve

No matter how much the working class protest these lopsided trade deals ...

[ck4829]

7. K&R

[bvar22]

8. Solidarity.

There is NO such thing as "Free Trade".
It was/is a SCAM designed by the Corporate Owners to avoid Human Rights, LABOR rights, and Environmental Regulation.
They used smooth talking politicians to SELL it to a gullible America,
and the SCAM has worked PERFECTLY.

I can't believe that there are politicians STILL SELLING "Free Trade" in America,
and it is even harder to believe that there are some Americans who are still BUYING INTO this well exposed SCAM.



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity!
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[truedelphi]

9. + 1. n/t