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Senate: Vote No on Fast Track Trade Legislation
Fast Track trade legislation is being steamrolled through Congress without adequate debate over differences between a House and Senate bill. Send a fax to your U.S. senators and representative. Tell them to vote against Fast Track.
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Subject: Say "No" to Fast Track
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
I urge you to vote against the Fast Track trade legislation conference. This legislation takes a step backwards on workers' rights and environmental protection, reversing the bipartisan progress that was made on the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement. The workers' rights negotiating objectives, taken as a whole, are weak and counter-productive.
Many of the same big corporations that have victimized shareholders have also victimized employees. Nearly all of the big corporations which promised to create jobs in the U.S. after NAFTA passed shipped them overseas instead.
Our nation has lost more than a million manufacturing jobs over the past 12 months. Since 1994, according to the Economic Policy Institute, about 3 million jobs have been lost due to growing trade deficits--mainly with the same countries with which we have signed recent trade agreements. This Fast Track bill would only accelerate that trend.
But perhaps far worse is what the corporations want to do with Fast Track. Global accounting standards could be watered down. Public services here and abroad could be privatized at the expense of consumers. More jobs could be shipped abroad where corporations would be under no obligation to honor internationally recognized workers' rights, such as a ban on child labor.
I urge you to vote against this Fast Track legislation.
Sincerely,
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