Earth Day Anniversary #45, 04-22-2015:
Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) or "fast track" legislation possible floor votes are today. Phone your Senators to vote against it and phone the White House to Veto it if it comes to Obama's desk. Do not be mislead by e-mail from OFA mollifying you enough to not take action opposing Trade Promotion Authority as, for example, saying that "...“… though the TPA is often called ‘fast track,’ that’s a bit of a misnomer. "
Be on the lookout for Senate Committee on Finance having Scheduled Markup of S. 1015, An Original bill to reauthorize trade facilitation and trade enforcement functions and activities, and for other purposes and S. 995, A bill to establish congressional trade negotiating objectives and enhanced consultation requirements for trade negotiations, to provide for consideration of trade agreements, and for other purposes.
Lori Wallach, of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch is possibly the most knowledgeable public policy advocate who speaks strongly against Fast Track, TPP, and TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership -- What is TTIP? And six reasons why the answer should scare you).
As Senators today vote on TPA, the "Fast Track" that Obama wants to ram down our throats, we celebrate the 45th anniversary of Earth Day. Please do take a moment to honor its founder, Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin whose death 10 years ago ended a lifetime of service to Wisconsin, the nation and the planet. Were he voting on Fast Track today, he would assuredly vote "Nea" (No). More than 20 million U.S. people joined together to celebrate, educate and ultimately fight for protection of the environment upon which all life on Earth depends.
While his conviction that we must halt our degradation of the environment will stand as his primary legacy, it was not the only instance of his leading an unpopular cause. The fact that he stood virtually alone in the Senate in opposition to the Vietnam war led former Vice President Walter Mondale to say at the service: "If Lyndon [President Johnson] had listened to Gaylord, there would be one less war memorial on the mall in Washington."
Sunday, April 19, 2015 on C-SPAN
Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal aired. It was extremely current deep coverage in which Lori Wallach spoke about giving President Obama special authority to expedite, also known as"fast track," negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Ms. Wallach is widely accepted as one of the most articulate and strong voice about these matters. She works for Public Citizen.
Friday, April 17th, Hillary Clinton had just made news few reported, her first comment on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) since becoming a 2016 presidential candidate. Ed Schultz and Sen. Bernie Sanders discussed President Obama’s latest comment on the trade deal. Ed Schultz is about the only major television reporter who is really trying to get us to pay attention to this constellation of legislative agendas and federal policy. For more on the media blackout, see the report by Lee Fang entitled MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Pleads “Guilty” on Failing to Cover TPP Trade Pact over at The Intercept where you also find SONY Emails Show Industry Execs Pushing for Trade Deal.
On 4-21-2015 was this about those Friday messages from OFA: Organizing for Action Tries to Soothe Dems with Misleading Email on Fast Track Trade Authority by Jon Schwartz saying:
The OFA email did not ask members to take action supporting fast track; instead, it appears to be an attempt to mollify them enough so they don’t take action opposing it. In any case, the email is filled with assertions clearly crafted to mislead OFA members.
Yet timely is
this letter to Senator Ron Wyden showing the breadth and depth of our opposition to TPA-fast track, TPP, (and TTIP) that Obama, Wyden, and so many others arrogantly ignore.
The Honorable Ron Wyden
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
September 10, 2014
Dear Chairman Wyden:
On behalf of our millions of members and supporters, we write to share our objectives regarding 21st century trade agreements and the enhanced congressional oversight needed to ensure that U.S. trade pacts deliver benefits for most Americans, promote broadly shared prosperity, and safeguard the environment and public health. Our organizations oppose the Fast Track model of trade authority and believe that it must be replaced with a new system for negotiating and implementing trade agreements that provides for more congressional and public accountability.
Today’s proposed trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), extend far beyond traditional trade issues such as tariffs. The TPP is a massive 29-chapter agreement that would establish binding rules on issues related to labor rights, energy and the environment, medicine pricing, patents and copyright, food and product safety, Internet freedom and innovation, government procurement, financial regulation, immigration, healthcare, and more. Similarly, TTIP is an expansive agreement that will focus mainly on eliminating so-called “non-tariff” or “technical” barriers to trade namely behind-the-border domestic regulatory policies. Indeed, the TTIP is focused more on how national or regional policies are made and the uniformity of regulatory standards than on international trade in its traditional sense.
The old Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority is simply not appropriate given the subject matter covered by today’s pacts, such as TPP and TTIP. For this reason, we oppose “The Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act” (S. 1900), which replicates the overly broad delegation of Congress’s constitutional authorities that was provided in the 2002 Fast Track and allows the executive branch to unilaterally select negotiating partner countries, negotiate terms, decide when negotiations are complete and then sign a final pact before the full Congress has had an opportunity to approve the contents. Pursuant to S. 1900, signed pacts could then be rushed through Congress —regardless of whether congressional negotiating objectives have been met— with a guaranteed vote in 90 days under rules that circumvent ordinary review, amendment and debate procedures.
In order to deal with today’s complex trade agreements and accelerating globalization, a 21st century trade authority that includes enhanced mechanisms for Congress to exercise its constitutional authority over U.S. trade policy is needed. While it is important that Congress develop negotiating mandates that outline what all U.S. trade agreements must and must not include, as explained below, even more important is the replacement of the outdated and failed Fast Track procedures. Any agreement that will be considered for expedited approval (i.e. limited debate and no amendments) must include robust and binding provisions that truly mark it as a “21st Century Trade Agreement.” However, including strong mandates without a system to guarantee the mandates have been achieved is like having a speeding limit in a school zone without any enforcement personnel. To that end, in this new model of trade authority, expedited consideration of completed agreements should only be available if and when Congress determines that its negotiating objectives have been satisfied and the executive branch has abided by requirements for increased congressional and public oversight over the entire process.
To achieve improved accountability and outcomes, this enhanced process should include:
1. Congressional role in selecting appropriate trade partners: Congress should set criteria, including with respect to human and labor rights compliance, environmental and public health standards, and market access opportunities for U.S. exporters, to determine whether a country is an appropriate trading partner for the United States. Congress must also have the opportunity to determine that a country proposed by the executive branch does not meet such criteria before negotiations commence and is unlikely to be an appropriate partner in the near term, in which case the trade agreement would not qualify for expedited procedures.
2. Mandatory negotiating objectives to ensure trade agreements deliver broad benefits: Congress should set mandatory negotiating objectives outlining what all U.S. trade agreements must and must not include. Congress must have the opportunity to add agreement-specific objectives.
3. Enhanced transparency to ensure meaningful congressional and public input: The Office of the United States Trade Representative must conduct broad, specific, and systematic congressional and public briefings on the progress that negotiators are making towards meeting the established negotiating objectives. In addition, negotiating texts should be made available to the public so that all stakeholders have the information to provide informed input to elected and appointed officials on the implications of the trade deal.
4. Congressional certification that trade goals have been met before trade negotiations are concluded: When executive branch negotiators believe that they have concluded negotiations, a final text must be released publicly and Congress must certify that the negotiating objectives have been satisfied before the text of a pact can be deemed final. Only such certification could trigger an expedited vote by Congress to approve the agreement.
5. Congressional approval of trade agreements and authorization for the executive branch to sign and enter into agreements: Congress would vote on trade agreements using expedited procedures only if the requirements enumerated above were met. Requiring explicit congressional approval to sign and enter into the agreement enables Congress to ensure that an agreement’s contents are acceptable at a time when changes could still be made, if necessary.
6. A mechanism for a sizable minority of the House or Senate to obtain a vote on a resolution to remove an agreement from expedited consideration: As an additional safeguard, a sizable minority in either chamber should be able to get a privileged floor vote in either chamber on a resolution to withdraw expedited consideration for any pact for a variety of reasons, such as lack of Congressional or public consultation/input or clear breach of negotiating objectives.
7. Trade negotiating authority must be considered in conjunction with related trade and economic policy legislation: For example, trade rules that cannot be enforced provide no real benefits for the American people, our environment, or our economy. Moreover, increased trade without concurrent investments in our infrastructure and workforce will surely result in lost opportunities. Addressing long-standing economic problems such as wage suppression and economic inequality will take more than new trade pacts.
Over the course of our nation’s history, Congress has regularly created new trade authority mechanisms as the subject matter of agreements changed. We urge you to seize the historic opportunity to replace the outdated Fast Track procedures that our organizations so strongly oppose and create a new trade negotiating and approval process that would help deliver trade agreements that could benefit workers, communities, and the environment and, therefore, rebuild broad support for trade agreements.
Sincerely,
National Organizations: ____________
350.org
ActionAid USA
Alliance for Democracy
Alliance for Retired Americans
Amazon Watch
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
American Federation of Teachers
American Friends Service Committee
American Medical Student Association (AMSA)
American Medical Student Association ‒ Just Medicine Campaign
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA)
Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers
Backbone Campaign
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
BlueGreen Alliance
Breast Cancer Action
Center for Biological Diversity
Center for Effective Government
Center for Food Safety
Center for International Environmental Law
Citizens Trade Campaign
Colombia Support Network
Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach
Common Cause
Communications Workers of America
Conference of Major Superiors of Men
Consumer Federation of America
Corporate Accountability International
Cultural Survival
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Domestic Fair Trade Association
Earthjustice
Economic Policy Institute
Environmental Investigation Agency
Ethix Ventures Inc.
Fair World Project
Family Farm Defenders
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance
Fight for the Future
Food & Water Watch
Food Chain Workers Alliance
Food Empowerment Project
Free Speech for People
Friends of the Earth, US
Global Exchange
GMO Free USA
Gray Panthers
Green America
Greenpeace
Health Alliance International
Health Care without Harm
Health GAP (Global Access Project)
Holy Cross International Justice Office
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Institute for Policy Studies, Global Economy Project
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers (IFPTE)
International Labor Rights Forum
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
IUE-CWA, Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America
Jobs With Justice
Just Foreign Policy
Justice Party
Labor Network for Sustainability
League of Conservation Voters
Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network
Medical Mission Sisters Alliance for Justice
Moana Nui
Move To Amend
MoveOn.Org
NAACP
National Black Rank and File Exchange
National Family Farm Coalition
National Hmong American Farmers, Inc
National Latino Farmers & Ranchers TradeAssociation
National Nurses Organizing Committee / National Nurses United
Natural Resources Defense Council
NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
New Rules for Global Finance
Nicaragua Center for Community Action
Oil Change International
OpenMedia International
People for the American Way
Physicians for a National Health Program
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Popular Resistance
Presbyterian Church USA
Progressive Democrats of America
Public Citizen
Quaker Earthcare Witness
RootsAction.org
School of the Americas Watch
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Sierra Club
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas - Institute Justice Team
Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA)
Sr. of Charity of Nazareth Western Province Leadership
SumOfUs.org
Task Force on the Americas
The Episcopal Network for Economic Justice
The Rachel Carson Council, Inc.
Unitarian Universalist Global AIDS Coalition
UNITE HERE
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)
United Mineworkers of America
United Steelworkers
United Students Against Sweatshops
United Students for Fair Trade
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
WarIsACrime.org
Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC)
Women's Voices for the Earth
Worldview
Local, State, and Regional Organizations: _____________
12th Congressional District Chapter of Progressive
Democrats of America
350 Central Maine
350 Maine
350 CT
350 Seattle
7th District West of Illinois Move-On Chapter
a2mc (Access to Medicines Coalition)
ACC / AFT Local 6249
ACLC AFL-CIO
Activate CT
Aerospace Machinists Dist Lodge 751
Africa Connections, First Unitarian Church of
Portland, Oregon
AFSCME 2748 Chapter 10
AFSCME Council 5
AFSCME Council 65
AFSCME Local 1542
AFSCME Local 1624
AFSCME Local 3214
AFSCME Local 3214
AFSCME Local 34
AFSCME Local 3800
AFSCME Local 4001
AFSCME Local 668
AFT ‒ Oregon
Alliance for Democracy - Oregon
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
American Association of Retirees, a California nonprofit corporation
American Federation of Government Employees, Local 3937
American Indian Mothers Inc.
American Postal Workers Union, Minneapolis Area Local
American Postal Workers Union, St. Paul Area Local
Americans for Democratic Action Hawaii
Americans for Democratic Action Iowa
Americans for Democratic Action of Southeastern Penna. Chapter
Americans for Democratic Action Southern California
Americans for Democratic Action, Northeast Ohio
ATU Local 1091
Austin Central Labor Council
Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera
Awake Miami
BCTGM Local 167G
BCTGM Local 267G
BCTGM Local 369G
Berks Gas Truth
BLET-MNSLB
BlueGreen Alliance, Minnesota
Bronx River Bicycle Works
Brooklyn For Peace
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Washington State Legislative Board
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Massachusetts State Legislative Board
California Farmers Union
Carpenters Local Union 1209
Carpenters Local Union 223
Carpenters Local Union 318
Carpenters Local Union 318
Carpenters Local Union 322
Carpenters Local Union 345
Carpenters Local Union 361
Carpenters Local Union 50
Carpenters Local Union 74
Cascade AIDS Project
Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy
Cement Masons and Plasters Local 633
Center for Family Farm Development, Inc.
Central Co-op
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL)
CFTC ‒ CT Fair Trade Coalition
Chester County Council AFL-CIO
Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
Chicago Fair Trade
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America
Church Council of Greater Seattle
Citizens' Environmental Coalition
Cleveland Jobs with Justice
Climate Action Business Association
Cloutman & Cloutman, LLP
Coastal Bend Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Colorado State Legisaltive Board BLE & T
Columbia Pacific Alliance for Social Justice
Communications Workers of America District 7
Communications Workers of America State Council
Community Action for Justice in the Americas, Africa and Asia (CAJA-3)
Community Alliance for Global Justice
Community Alliance of Lane County
Community to Community Development
Concerned Families of Westchester
Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes
Connecticut Justice Party
Connecticut State Council of Machinists
Construction & General Laborers Local 154
Corpus Christi American Federation of Teachers
CWA District 2-13
CWA District 6
CWA Local 1111
CWA Local 6132
CWA Local 6215
CWA Local 6222
CWA Local 7777
CWA Local 7901
Dakota Resource Council (ND)
Dakota Rural Action (SD)
Dallas AFL-CIO
Dallas Building Trades Council, AFL-CIO
Delaware Riverkeeper Network
Democracy in Action Chicago
Denver Justice & Peace Committee
Divas Fair Trade
DownRiver Alliance
DSA Austin
East Central Area Labor Council
Eastern Michigan Federation of Teachers
Eco-Logic, WBAI-FM
Economic Justice Action Group of First Unitarian Church
Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC
El Paso Building & Construction Trades Council
Elevator Constructors Local 21
Elevator Constructors Local 9
Empire State Consumer Project
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
Fairmont, MN Peace Group
Faith Action Network
Farms Not Arms
Farmworker Association of Florida
Fernandez Ranch
Florida AFL-CIO
Florida Alliance for Retired Americans
Food for Maine's Future
Fort Worth MoveOn Council
Fort Worth Professional Firefighters
Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research (FIAR)
Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice
Frack Free Illinois
GCC / IBT Local 4535M
General Teamsters Local 326
GMO Free Florida
Grand Rapids CAT Team
Grassroots Coalition
Greater Danbury MoveOn.Org Council
Green Ministry Team First Presbyterian Church Bend, OR.
Harris County AFL-CIO Council
HartBeat Ensemble
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Houston Federation of Teachers
Houston Gulf Coast Building and Construction Trades Council
IAMAW Airline Local 1833
IAMAW Capitol City and Minneapolis Metal Workers Lodge 459
IAMAW District 165
IAMAW Local Lodge 1037
IAMAW Local Lodge 112
IAMAW Local Lodge 126
IAMAW Local Lodge 1956
IAMAW Local Lodge 2198
IAMAW Local Lodge 623
IAMAW Local Lodge 737
IAMAW Local Lodge 1005
IAMAW Minnesota State Council
IBEW 3rd District
IBEW Local 1253
IBEW Local 160
IBEW Local 242
IBEW Local 278
IBEW Local 294
IBEW Local 31
IBEW Local 46
IBEW Local 520
IBEW Local 66
IBEW Local 716
IBT - Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen - Texas State Legislative Board
Illinois Stewardship Alliance
Independent Cattlemen of Wyoming
Insulators LU 22
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Local 1175
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 286
Iron Workers Local Union # 482
Ironworkers Local 263
Iroquois Valley Farms, LLC
IUE-CWA Local 1140
JOBS NOW Coalition
Jobs with Justice of South Sound
Joint Council of Teamsters No.37
Jubilee Oregon
Kitsap Central Labor Council
KKI
Label GMOs.org
Laborers District Council of MN & ND
Land Stewardship Project
LCLAA Gulf Coast Chapter
League of Rural Voters
Lehigh Valley Gas Truth
Lehigh Valley Group, Sierra Club
Lone Star Chapter, Sierra Club
Lubbock Central Labor Council
Maine Fair Trade Campaign
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
Maine People's Alliance
MaineXChange
MAPE
Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas
Marion Polk Move to Amend
Maryland United for Peace and Justice
Mata Traders
Mid-South Carpenters Regional Council
Millwrights Local 548
Milwaukee Fair Trade Coalition
Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation
Minnesota AFL-CIO
Minnesota Building and Construction Trades
Minnesota Farmers Union
Minnesota Industrial Union Council
Minnesota Nurses Association
Minnesota Public Interest Research Group
Minnesota State Council of Machinists IAM&AW
Minnesota Teamsters Joint Council 32
Missouri ProVote
Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Montanans Against the TPP
MoveOn Desert Council
MoveOn Los Angeles Council
MoveOn Metro Denver Council
MoveOn.org/PDX
Nat’l Assn of Letter Carriers, Branch 9
NC State AFL-CIO
NEOGAP (Network for Oil and Gas Accountability and Protection)
NH Right To Know GMO
North American Intertribal Missions
North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters
North East Area Labor Council
North Texas Jobs with Justice
Northeastern Illinois Chapter, Americans for Democratic Action
Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice
Northern Plains Resource Council (MT)
NW Oregon Labor Council, AFL-CIO
NY4WHALES
NYC Friends of Clearwater
Occupy Bellingham
Occupy Coachella Valley
Occupy Fort Stockton
Occupy Naperville
Ocean Spirit Massage
Ohio Fair Trade Campaign
Olympic Climate Action
OPEIU Local 12
Oregon AFL-CIO
Oregon AFSCME Council 75
Oregon Fair Trade Campaign
Oregon Machinist Council
Oregon Progressive Party
Oregon Rural Action
Oregon Steelworkers
Organization of Staff Analysts
PA Conference of Teamsters
PA Fair Trade Coalition
PDA Desert Chapter
Peace Action Bay Ridge Interfaith
Peace Action, Maine Chapter
Peace House
PeaceWorks of Greater Brunswick, Maine
People For Positive Action of Plattsburgh, NY
Pennsylvania Council of Churches
Pierce County Central Labor Council
Pipefitters Local Union 211
Pittsburgh LCLAA
Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 142
Plumbers Local 68
Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
Portland Healthcare Action Group
Portland Jobs with Justice
Powder River Basin Resource Council
Presbytery of the Twin Cities
Progressive Democrats of America ‒ Illinois
Progressive Democrats of America-Tucson Chapter
Protect Biodiversity in Public Forests
Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action
Regla de Oro
RLM Arts
San Antonio AFL-CIO
San Antonio Labor Council for Latin American
Advancement
San Diego Maquiladora Workers Solidarity Network (SDMWSN)
Sane Energy Project
Seattle CISPES
Seattle Education Association
SEIU / NCFO Chapter 1016 Local 32BJ
SEIU 503, OPEU
SEIU Local 63
SEIU MN State Council
Sheet Metal Workers Local 10
Sheet Metal Workers' Local Union #54
Sierra Club ‒ Connecticut Chapter
Sierra Club ‒ Oregon Chapter
Sierra Club Lehigh Valley (PA)
Sierra Club North Star Chapter
Sierra Club, Maine Chapter
Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word of San Antonio, TX
SMART Local 565
South Florida LCLAA
South Florida Voices for Working Families
South Sound Clean Clothes Campaign
South Suburban Council MoveOn.org
Southeast Minnesota Area Labor Council
Southeast MN Alliance of Peacemakers
Southern Oregon Climate Action Now
Southwest Ohio Green PAC
St. Louis Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America
St. Paul Regional Labor Federation
Steelworkers Local 9528 CTAPE
Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts
Take Back America for the People
Tarrant County CLC, AFL-CIO
Teamsters Joint Council 10
Teamsters Joint Council 13
Teamsters Joint Council 16
Teamsters Joint Council 25
Teamsters Joint Council 28
Teamsters Joint Council 3
Teamsters Joint Council 37
Teamsters Joint Council 39
Teamsters Joint Council 42
Teamsters Joint Council 55
Teamsters Joint Council 56
Teamsters Joint Council 58
Teamsters Joint Council 7
Teamsters Joint Council 73
Teamsters Joint Council 80
Teamsters Joint Council 80
Teamsters Local 100
Teamsters Local 102
Teamsters Local 102
Teamsters Local 117
Teamsters Local 118
Teamsters Local 1199
Teamsters Local 150
Teamsters Local 170
Teamsters Local 179
Teamsters Local 190
Teamsters Local 2011
Teamsters Local 245
Teamsters Local 26
Teamsters Local 29
Teamsters Local 294
Teamsters Local 317
Teamsters Local 317
Teamsters Local 324
Teamsters Local 325
Teamsters Local 325
Teamsters Local 344
Teamsters Local 38
Teamsters Local 414
Teamsters Local 455
Teamsters Local 480
Teamsters Local 495
Teamsters Local 522
Teamsters Local 572
Teamsters Local 577
Teamsters Local 585
Teamsters Local 618
Teamsters Local 623
Teamsters Local 631
Teamsters Local 637
Teamsters Local 653
Teamsters Local 657
Teamsters Local 662
Teamsters Local 673
Teamsters Local 697
Teamsters Local 703
Teamsters Local 716
Teamsters Local 745
Teamsters Local 752
Teamsters Local 769
Teamsters Local 777
Teamsters Local 79
Teamsters Local 830
Teamsters Local 838
Teamsters Local 890
Teamsters Local 988
Teamsters Local 988
Teamsters Local 997
Teamsters Local 997
Texas AFL CIO
Texas Alliance for Retired Americans
Texas American Federation of Teachers
Texas Fair Trade Coalition
Texas NAACP
Texas State Association of Electrical Workers
Texas State Building Trades Council
Texas State Council of Machinists
Texas Young Active Labor Leaders
The Interfaith Alliance of Rochester
Traditions Fair Trade
Truck Drivers Local 449
UE Western Region
UFCW 555
UFCW Local 21
Union House
UNITE HERE Minnesota
United Association Local 529
United Auto Workers Local 2125
United Auto Workers Local 879
United Auto Workers Local 958
United Auto Workers Minnesota State CAP Council
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1189
United Transportation Union, MN Legislative Council
University of MN Labor Education Service
USW District 10
USW District 11
USW District 13
USW Local 1016
USW Local 11-75
USW Local 1188
USW Local 1219
USW Local 12698
USW Local 13-227
USW Local 1329
USW Local 13-620
USW Local 1408
USW Local 1408
USW Local 2002
USW Local 264
USW Local 2660
USW Local 364
USW Local 3657
USW Local 404
USW Local 5652
USW Local 6115
USW Local 7263
USW Local 7687
USW Local 8183
USW Local 9402
USW Women of Steel
WA 28th Legislative Democrats
Washington Fair Trade Coalition
Washington State Democrats
Washington State Labor Council
Washington Young Emerging Labor Leaders
WashTech
West Area Labor Council
West Texas Building & Construction Trades Council
Western Colorado Congress
Western Mass. Jobs with Justice
Western New York Area Labor Federation
Western Wisconsin AFL-CIO Central Labor Council
Whatever It Takes For Progress
Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition
Witness for Peace – Upper Midwest
Women Occupy San Diego
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Maine Chapter
Young Active Labor Leaders, Texas AFL-CIO
Watch a true expert on fast track and TPP explain Why so many are outraged over proposed #TPP and fast-track authority. Lori Wallach of @pcgtw explains:
Lori Wallach @WallachLori who works on Globalization & Trade at Public Citizen was interviewed today on Democracy Now! which is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program.
The Wallach & Alan Grayson interviews 20 minute video is here at 26:50 to 46:30
For additional, in-depth analysis of the Hatch bill provisions, visit www.citizen.org/fast-track-2015
April 16, 2015 ANALYSIS: Hatch Bill Would Revive Controversial 2002 Fast Track Mechanism that Faces Broad Congressional, Public Opposition
2015 Hatch Bill Replicates Language of Failed 2014 Fast Track Bill; Would Expand Same Broken Trade Model That Has Led to $912 Billion Trade Deficit, Loss of Millions of Manufacturing Jobs, Attacks on Public Interest Policies
See PDF version here.
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