exploit the poverty wages of foreign countries, strip jobs from Americans, and swallow billions in profits on our backs. (Plus allow foreign corps to have property rights , etc over American citizens.)
Which is why our unions are fighting the TPP~
U.S. Unions Fight Free-Trade Trans-Pacific Partnership
With the White House potentially on the verge of "fast-tracking" the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a measure expected to lower or eliminate trade barriers between the United States and 11 Pacific Rim nations, U.S. labor unions are once again voicing reservations, selfishly fighting to keep costs on imports high for all Americans.
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) President Richard Trumka says the proposal is flawed and will promote "wealth for the 1%, with poverty for the rest of us," while Teamsters President James Hoffa says the TPP will allow American corporations to offshore more manufacturing jobs.
The TPP talks have been ongoing for years. They were supposed to wrap up in 2012 and then 2014, but opponents have repeatedly delayed their completion—
though a finish line may be in sight given the new Republican-controlled Congress.
These TPP talks come two decades after unions fought against the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which opened up trade restrictions between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico in 1994. Former presidential candidate and staunch protectionism proponent Ross Perot once declared that NAFTA would create "a giant sucking sound" of jobs leaving the U.S. for Mexico. More recently, the liberal magazine The Nation called the
TPP a "massive assault on democracy" and "NAFTA on steroids."...
http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/13/us-unions-fight-free-trade-trans-pacific
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