EditorIn an unsually cooperative move, three union presidents wrote an opinion piece on Huffington Post criticizing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (or ObamaTrade, as it is commonly referred to).
Stating that the “agreement does not hold up under scrutiny,” Presidents Dennis Williams (UAW, Leo Gerard, (Steelworkers), and and James Hoffa (Teamsters), wrote:
We serve as representatives of American organized workers on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN) and together have stated that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a bum deal we cannot support.
By registering our dissent to the ACTPN report that endorses the agreement, the Teamsters, the United Steelworkers and the United Auto Workers are letting Congress and the public know this deal fails everyday Americans and must be rejected by our elected representatives. The TPP is simply the latest in a long line of terrible trade pacts that ship jobs overseas and lower wages at home. At a time of outrageous economic inequality and stagnate wages, TPP is the last thing we should do.
Despite the efforts of supporters to frame this 12-nation Pacific Rim agreement as the gold standard and one that would stick up for the interests of millions of workers in the U.S. and abroad, the TPP fails on all accounts. Now that the text is no longer secret, many are seeing the agreement does not hold up under scrutiny.
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