TPP
Vietnam navigates global competition, free trade in quest for development
May 4, 201630 years into a program of "renewal" of its socialist system, Vietnam faces a world dominated by free trade agreements, competition, and global capital.
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Nabisco worker fears her middle class life will slip away
March 22, 2016'We said 'hell no' to $46 million in concessions: That would have put us at about $10 an hour and I'm sure they wanted the insurance and the pensions too."
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Presidential hopefuls on so-called ‘free trade’ pacts
March 14, 2016Defeating anti-worker trade pacts is a key plank in organized labor's Raise The Wage campaign: Labor is not against trade but it's against unfair trade the pacts create.
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New trade agreements: Potential for great harm or transnational unity
February 22, 2016On February 4, the United States and 11 other countries in the "Pacific Rim" signed the controversial Transpacific Partnership.
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Trans-Pacific Partnership protests mount
February 19, 2016"The TPP represents a giant step in the wrong direction that will blow a hole in the American economy, which will have to struggle for decades to recover."
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