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In reply to the discussion: President Obama Weekly Address: Fighting for Trade Deals that Put American Workers First [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)if it is Fast Tracked, even if we were to get that minimum wage before that, will fall under what Global Corporations can sue us for.
Since the TPP cannot be changed now, and thanks to the leaks, we know that 6,000 Global Corporations can sue the American people over laws that THEY will claim can hurt their profit margins, and those claims will be controlled in Corporate Tribunals with Corporate Lawyers and Judges making the decisions, WAGES are likely to be the first thing they will sue over.
Imagine eg, a Corporation from a poor country where wages are .60c or less an hr. That's what they are used to paying. Then they come here to the US and suddenly they have to pay $15.00 an hr. to American workers. They could bring their own workers I suppose, but how could people live on that HERE? I can see all kinds of ramifications from this, slave labor eg.
Or are we offering them the use of our Private Prison population as a source of cheap labor?
The minimum wage is a perfect reason under the TPP to sue the American for preventing them from making a profit.
And that is a few of the ramifications I can think of.
Have you been following the fight the Long Shoremen have been in with Foreign Corps over the past few years? How they bring in thugs to beat up American Labor Protestors, eg. And when they walk off the job to protest wage cuts, circumvention of our laws, by these Corporations, they bring in busloads of cheap labor.
We just cannot let this pass. The Long Shoremen's problems could become our way of life across the country.
Obama has not denied that this is in this Agreement, or that it has been changed, so if this was the ONLY bad thing in it, Fast Tracking is out of the question imo.