Stop Fast Track Now!

Make your voice heard to stop Fast Track trade authority. Send a message to your Senator today.

Sample Letter for Campaign

Subject:

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

I urge you to oppose Fast Track trade legislation. Fast Track would not have passed in the House except for the Republican leadership's willingness to exploit wartime support for the President. The legislation does not require workers' rights and environmental safeguards, made enforceable by sanctions, to be negotiated in the core text of trade agreements.

Fast Track authority legislation also would limit the time Congress can consider trade agreements. It would not allow Congress to improve the agreements, and would prevent workers' rights from being addressed in any meaningful form. Fast Track also would threaten laws designed to protect consumers and the environment. I am disappointed and outraged that Fast Track legislation completely ignores the legitimate concerns many people have raised about the negative impact of current trade policies on working families, the environment, family farmers, consumers, small and mid-sized businesses, people of color and women here in the United States and around the world.

Fast Track trade negotiating authority takes us backward and not forward. I urge you to vote against Fast Track legislation.

Sincerely,

Campaign Launched:
December 11, 2001

Background Information

Stop Fast Track!

Congressional leaders and President George W. Bush are pushing Fast Track legislation that would allow trade agreements to move through Congress with little opportunity for debate and no opportunity for modification. The proposal before Congress explicitly would prohibit the addition of enforceable protection for workers' rights and the environment in Fast-Tracked agreements. A coalition of union members, environmentalists, consumers and other activists have come together to demand that Congress include protections for working families and the environment as a part of any Fast Track agreement.