We need jobs. Not unfair trade agreements.
Millions of people who are ready, willing and able to work are
unemployed or underemployed. But instead of focusing on job creation,
Congress is getting ready to take up unfair, job-offshoring trade deals.
With more than 25 million people desperately searching for full-time
jobs, the last thing our leaders should focus on is these unfair trade
deals. It’s the wrong thing to do, and it’s a huge distraction from our
jobs crisis.
Tell Congress: Get moving on jobs, and drop these unfair trade deals. Then, be ready to join our national call-in day this Tuesday. With your help, we’ll make our voices heard by flooding Congress with calls and messages.
Here’s why the three pending trade agreements are a bad deal for working families:
- The Korea agreement is the biggest trade deal since NAFTA. It would displace an estimated 159,000 net U.S. jobs, mostly in manufacturing.
- Colombia is the most dangerous place in the world for trade unionists.
So how can we reward it with a free trade agreement? In 2010, 51 trade
unionists were assassinated in Colombia—more than in the rest of the
world combined. So far in 2011, another 22 have been killed, despite
Colombia’s heralded “Labor Action Plan.” Would we reward a country where
51 CEOs were killed last year? - And Panama, with a history of failing to protect workers’ rights, is known as a tax haven for money launderers and tax dodgers.
Past
trade deals like NAFTA have been miserable failures for working
people—and these new deals follow in NAFTA’s footsteps. Working people
need to make our voices heard.
Please e-mail Congress now.
Then get ready to join our national call-in day this Tuesday. With your
help, we’ll flood Congress with calls and messages to make our voices
heard.
In Solidarity,
President, AFL-CIO
Be a Seed for Change 
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While i did not agree with what Clinton did by implementing NAFTA to begin with, certainly with foresight being 20/20.. but i after hearing how PresidentObama put some stipulations into the S.Korea agreement i am far more trusting . I also feel that rep.Kucinich just does not agree or support President Obama from all of his comments and statements … I worry that Kucinich is against President Obama for reasons that are coming from the far right and that for me is enough to ignore everything that Kucinich says. I ask you how do you feel that Kucinich was willing to jump out to Washington State at the drop of a hat just to stay in the political game? I was offended that this guy would shop States because he wants to stay in the game not because he cares ? the guy no more knows Washington State let alone love my State …. that is a sad example for any member of Congress but Kucinich is the topic so his truth is just that … Rep.Dennis Kucinich truth. I prefer PresidentObama’s
thank you Jhaines for taking the time to respond to the Afl-cio article … I say talk is cheap and action is golden …I get it people have been ill-treated in the past &why should Obama be different? I think that yrs of bs has been dumped at the doorstep of this President yet he has little slim or no partners in that change we can believe in … why? because both parites are okay with the status quo. President Obama does not create or pass the laws Congress does and so far they don’t seem willing to get the job done… first they accuse him of not writing or presenting bills then when he does both sides of the aisle whine. I say we need better members of Congress that will do the right thing, do their jobs and work with President Obama not against him … which i feel Kucinich does
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