Fast track is a back track. The AFL-CIO is working hard to defeat fast-track authority. The latest proposal from corporate America is to broaden fast-track trade authorization to several Pacific rim nations, many of whom, like Columbia before them, have very bad human rights records -- such as Brunei. Setting aside concerns over people in foreign countries the trade deal with Korea has cost some 70,000 jobs according to the AFL-CIO. Why are we allowing this to happen?
Americans have been subject to a propaganda campaign akin to an intelligence operation. Corporations which have millions to spare have organized concerted efforts to extend NAFT-like agreements around the world. The results of these agreements overall have been good for corporations, and special interests in foreign countries, and bad for American workers.
If a new trade deal with Pacific nations is bad for American workers -- and thus our economy -- and bad for human rights and workers in foreign countries, what's the point?
What's the point?:
What the AFL-CIO Says About Fast-track
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