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Trans Pacific Partnership deal: Corporations, not nations, call the shots

November 16, 2015 By Larry Rubin

If TPP is enacted as written, it will give corporations and banks a way to undermine any and all regulations member nations have put in place to protect consumers and workers.

After first look at full TPP text, union leaders give pact thumbs down

November 6, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Union leaders gave the 12-nation treaty an initial thumbs down as being too pro-corporate and not guaranteeing workers' rights.

On the trans-pacific partnership, we have to educate

October 23, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

A recent poll on the controversial so-called "free trade" pact tells us that workers and our allies have a massive public education job to do.

Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement: Potential damage to global public health

August 25, 2015 By Special to People’s World

"If the door starts to close on generic production of antiretrovirals, any hope of ending the global AIDS epidemic in our lifetime will quickly evaporate."

Netroots Nation delegates discussed unions’ role in progressive causes

July 23, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Unionists at the confab included a large delegation from the CWA, a former top Unite Here activist, and AFL-CIO officials Liz Shuler and Tefere Gebre.