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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Tuesday, 17 September 2013 [View all]bread_and_roses
(6,335 posts)34. OMFG - Another one! TISA
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/17-0
I am so behind - I never even heard of this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Published on Tuesday, September 17, 2013 by Inter Press Service
A New Raw Deal: Corporations to Profit While Workers, Planet Pay the Price
'The TISA negotiations are largely an effort to ensure greater corporate profits at the expense of workers, farmers, consumers and the environment.'
by Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - Nearly 350 international civil society organisations are urging countries taking part in new negotiations towards an agreement on trade in services to abandon the effort, warning that the accord would negatively impact on universal access to and national regulation of public services.
... The TISA negotiations largely follow the corporate agenda of using trade agreements to bind countries to an agenda of extreme liberalisation and deregulation in order to ensure greater corporate profits at the expense of workers, farmers, consumers and the environment, an open letter from the groups, addressed to trade ministers both involved in the TISA negotiations and those not participating, states.
A New Raw Deal: Corporations to Profit While Workers, Planet Pay the Price
'The TISA negotiations are largely an effort to ensure greater corporate profits at the expense of workers, farmers, consumers and the environment.'
by Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - Nearly 350 international civil society organisations are urging countries taking part in new negotiations towards an agreement on trade in services to abandon the effort, warning that the accord would negatively impact on universal access to and national regulation of public services.
... The TISA negotiations largely follow the corporate agenda of using trade agreements to bind countries to an agenda of extreme liberalisation and deregulation in order to ensure greater corporate profits at the expense of workers, farmers, consumers and the environment, an open letter from the groups, addressed to trade ministers both involved in the TISA negotiations and those not participating, states.
I am so behind - I never even heard of this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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