part of rapid response on tpp bill

TPP? No Way. After six years of negotiations, we now have access to the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). As we’ve suspected all along, it’s bad. In fact, as our USW news release affirms, “it will be a dagger twisting in the heart of American manufacturing.” The conservative, pro-business Wall Street Journal anticipates that the 12-nation pact will cause a massive trade deficit in manufacturing, resulting in hundreds of thousands of job losses. As China and other nations continue to dump commodities and products into our markets, battering our steel, aluminum, paper, tire and other sectors, this is not the time for more bad trade. Manufacturing still has not fully recovered from the economic crisis – we’re still shedding good, family-supportive jobs at an alarming pace. We don’t need more incentives to outsource production and offshore jobs. The TPP compromises our future. Workers have been on the losing end of trade agreements for far too long and this deal is more of the same.