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Urge to lawmakers: Use Trans-Pacific trade pact to favor workers
May 31, 2012The AFL-CIO is urging Congress and the Obama administration to use negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Pact to redo U.S. trade policy to support workers.
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Striking Los Mineros leader describes horrifying conditions
May 18, 2012Our town is where the Mexican Revolution began in 1906, at a time when miners there were virtually enslaved.
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U.S. and Korea implement free trade agreement
March 16, 2012The United States and South Korea mark the beginning of their free trade pact; labor and farmers remain opposed to deal as too procorporate.
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“Time to challenge basic assumptions,” says Trumka
October 11, 2011Americans must challenge and rethink three basic assumptions that have guided the country and the economy for the last 30 years and run both into the ditch, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says.
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Trans-Pacific Trade Pact called new NAFTA
September 2, 2011Warning of a new "NAFTA for the Pacific Rim," labor is demanding a new deal being negotiated for the Pacific region include protections for workers rights, health care and the environment.
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