Labor ramps up effort to stop trade deals

[cal04]

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1005-trade/175799-labor-ramps-up-effort-to-stop-trade-deals

Organized labor and other opponents of three pending free-trade deals are ramping up grass-roots campaigns intended to pressure lawmakers to oppose the agreements.

While the accords with South Korea, Colombia and Panama have broad support from the White House and Republican leaders, opponents are using the August recess to try to build up opposition.

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“We'll be talking to every legislator out there about the trade deals,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Friday.

The AFL-CIO will hold more than 450 events across the country this month where the deals will be discussed, and it has started a petition “urging politicians to bring the same urgency to the jobs crisis that they brought to the politically manufactured crisis over the deficit,” Trumka said.

[kentuck]

1. It's time for the President and the Democrats to dispense with this bullshit...

...about trade treaties creating all these jobs. That is a lie and they know it. Stop saying it.

Perhaps sometimes in the past, that was the case, but not in today's world.

It is only a way for businesses to move their jobs overseas, fire American workers, lower wages in this country, and give tax breaks to these businesses for moving their jobs.

The next time the President says this bullshit, he should be laughed off the stage. He sounds like Bill Clinton.

[chill_wind]

2. See also a from few days ago:

Pelosi pushes back against Obama-backed free-trade agreements
By Mike Lillis - 08/03/11 03:07 PM ET

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1005-trade/175285-pelosi-pushes-back-against-obama-backed-trade-deals

[bvar22]

3. Good Luck,

because the Democratic party Leadership does not listen to the great unwashed who have to Work for a Living.

I can't believe ANYBODY, Democrat or Republican could STILL be selling MORE "Free Trade".


Who will STAND and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses




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[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. OBAMA AND THE CONGRESS APPROVE OF THIS SHIT? nt

[chill_wind]

6. Obama, Republicans, Chamber of Commerce

and Third Way.

I'd say it's a go.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1670652

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. They're the enemy of this country and its people. nt

[Cool Logic]

5. The problem is that free trade deals have nothing to do with free trade.

When the world's "in-crowd" of middle-men get together to decide how to divide the rest of us up, it's very similar to when our Representatives get together with the K-Street boys and girls to decide how to divide Americans up. Greed is God, when the rich and the powerful write the rules.

Why do you think trade agreements have so many pages?

Answer: So that they can have more of these § and these ¶.

You see, if you are "in," one of the those little thingys above, written by you, or for your benefit, is on one of the pages.