Labor Movement United in Opposition to ‘Fast Tracking’ Trade Deals
In a show of solidarity, workers from across economic sectors representing 60 unions within and outside of the AFL-CIO came together today to sign a letter to Congress expressing opposition to Fast...
View ArticleLeaked Investor Chapter Of TPP Worse Than Imagined
Larry Cohen, President of the Communication Workers of America Washington, D.C. — Following is a statement by Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen: “The 56 pages of the Investor...
View ArticleThe “Fast Track” Bill For The Trans-Pacific Partnership Hit The Floor Of...
It was only a matter of time until the multi-national corporations who helped fund the campaigns of many of the politician’s in Washington pushed for another trade agreement that will make them...
View ArticleBaltimore Steelworker Invites Pres. Obama to Witness Results of Past Failed...
AFL-CIO, USW Launches New Trade Ad (Washington, DC) – A new ad from the AFL-CIO and USW highlights how the loss of manufacturing jobs due to bad trade policy over the past 30 years has hit...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Launches Ad Denouncing NY Rep. Kathleen Rice’s Fast Track Betrayal
Rep. Rice Caves to Corporate Interests, Disregards Working Men and Women (Washington, DC) – Today, the AFL-CIO launched a six-figure ad buy that includes this TV ad in the New York City media market...
View ArticleThank You To Those Who Voted Against The TPP, However The Fight Is Not Over
Working Families Have Spoken And Washington Was Listening. Yesterday, the US House of Representatives held a vote on the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which failed by a 126 to 302...
View ArticleAFL-CIO President “Deeply Disappointed” In Text Of Newly Released TPP
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka made the following statement after the release of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) text: After six long years, the secrecy is over. The public finally has a chance...
View ArticleLeo W Gerard: Burn The TPP
Middle America is smoldering. For too long, average citizens worked harder and produced more, yet corporations cut pay and benefits, off-shored community-sustaining factories, killed family-supporting...
View ArticleLeo W Gerard: When a Coin Drops in Asia, Jobs Disappear in Detroit
Former Factory Closed (Image Michael Coghlan) Last year, free trade hammered Michigan’s 11th Congressional District, located between Detroit and Flint, killing manufacturing, costing jobs and crushing...
View ArticleNew Poll Shows 66% Of Republicans Oppose The TPP, Spelling Possible Trouble...
Former NH State Senator Jim Rubens Challenges Sen. Ayotte to a debate on American worker wages A poll released today by the conservative group Americans for Limited Government and independent pollster...
View ArticleNew AFL-CIO Highlight Connections Between TPP And Life Saving Medications
New AFL-CIO TPP Video Addresses Potential Deadly Consequences of Trade Deal (Washington, DC) – Today, the AFL-CIO released a video of cancer survivor Zahara Heckscher explaining how passage of the...
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