TPP Trade Deal Will Be Devastating for Access to Affordable Medicines

[1StrongBlackMan]

31. No ...

Fast-track boils down to an up or down vote ... and support of having an up or down vote says nothing about one's opinion on the subject of the vote.

An anecdotal experience ... years ago, I participated in the negotiating of a Union contract. The negotiations went back and forth over the course of several month. The negotiating team, ultimately, submitted to the membership, an agreement that we knew (and on our prompting, encouraged) the membership would not accept on the up or down vote.

But we submitted it anyway ... because we needed the membership's rejection to press our issues and we knew that the company needed the contract to do business. This is not too dissimilar to what can happen under fast-track ... a rejection of the agreement, signals what the US government can accept.