Posted on 22 April 2011. Tags: "Free Trade", Barack Obama, Bill Daley, Colombia, Corporate Rights, Enforcement, Middle Class, Panama, Peru, Richard Trumka, Ron Kirk, Slavery, South Korea, Wages
Why doesn’t Bill Daley, the White House Chief of Staff, just come right out and say it: we’re going to ram through these so-called "free trade" deals because, dammit, we need that corporate cash for the re-election campaign? Just be honest. Stop coloring it in the phony Republican-corporate rhetoric of "job creation". Then, at […]
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Posted on 13 November 2010. Tags: "Free Trade", Barack Obama, Enforcement, Minimum Wage, Policy Matters Ohio, Side Agreements, South Korea
Today is a day to celebrate–no kidding. The so-called "free trade" deal with South Korea is dead in the water–at least for now. There are a whole host of reasons these deals stink from top to bottom. But, little attention is ever given to this reason: the phony promises made about enforcing labor and […]
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