On October 4, Tell Congress: Stop These Trade Deals and Create Jobs for America!
Your representative in Congress is considering three dangerous new free trade agreements with Colombia, Korea and Panama. With more than 25 million Americans desperately searching for full-time jobs, the last thing our leaders should focus on is trade deals that are unlikely to create jobs or help working families.
GET THE FACTS:
The Korea FTA is the biggest trade deal since NAFTA. It would displace an estimated 159,000 net U.S. jobs, mostly in manufacturing.
How can we reward Colombia, the most dangerous place in the world for trade unionists, with a free trade agreement? In 2010, 51 trade unionists were assassinated in Colombia - more than in the rest of the world combined. So far in 2011, another 22 have been killed, despite Colombia's heralded "Labor Action Plan." Would we reward a country where 51 CEOs were killed last year?
Panama, with a history of failing to protect workers' rights, is knows as a tax haven for money launderers and tax dodgers.
America has a jobs crisis that Congress should address immediately, starting with passage of President Obama's proposed American Jobs Act. Tell your representative in Congress to get to work for working families - don't reward job exporters, governments that fail to protect workers and tax dodgers.
On Tuesday, October 4, join the national call-in day to tell your U.S. representative to STOP these trade deals.
