Ok, so, now the fight begins in earnest. A deal has been struck to ram the Trans Pacific Partnership down the throats of the people. Bernie stands against the deal. Uh, HRC…no position.
The United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations on Monday agreed to the largest regional trade accord in history, a potentially precedent-setting model for global commerce and worker standards that would tie together 40 percent of the world’s economy, from Canada and Chile to Japan and Australia.The Trans-Pacific Partnership still faces months of debate in Congress and will inject a new flash point into both parties’ presidential contests.
Bernie has been clear. He has:
Opposed NAFTA, CAFTA, permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China, the TPP, and other free-trade agreements. These deals kill American jobs by shifting work overseas to nations which fail to provide worker protections and pay extremely low wages.
The biggest question, in my view, is: will the labor movement now follow through on its promise to make TPP a litmus test for support? As I wrote seven months ago, there was at least a freeze on campaign donations.
Now, this is a bottom line: which side are you on?
All these so-called “Free trade” deals are harmful. Bernie has never been fooled by the phony environmental and labor “protections” because he understands that fundamentally all these deals–under Democratic and Republican Administrations–are simply about protecting capital and investment. It’s about rewarding big corporations–and big donors–and enhancing corporate profits, not about workers or the planet.
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