New AFL-CIO TPP Report Highlights Lack of Worker Protections

[Omaha Steve]

]http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/New-AFL-CIO-TPP-Report-Highlights-Lack-of-Worker-Protections

A new report released today shows how the Trans-Pacific Partnership lacks adequate labor rights provisions. AFL-CIO Director of International Affairs Cathy Feingold explained the problem:

The consistency plans fall woefully short of ensuring that all 12 TPP countries will be in full compliance with the TPP’s labor standard on Day One of the agreement. Vietnam will get a five-year free pass to deny freedom of association and there is no plan for Mexico at all. This problem would be compounded if countries such as Thailand and Cambodia join the TPP without first affording all of their workers fundamental worker rights and acceptable conditions of work.

Read the full report in PDF: http://www.aflcio.org/content/download/174525/4153892/file/1628_TPPLaborRightsReport.pdf

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[Faux pas]

1. Kickin' with gusto!

[Hoyt]

2. Well, why doesn't the AFL-CIO start acting like an INTERNATIONAL union and go to poor countries?

Guess there is not enough membership dues in it for them.

There are labor rights protections in the TPP that are better than what existed before. It might not be perfect, but it is better than what existed before. If the AFL/CIO wants to do something besides griping, let them do it. After all, they are supposed to be international.

As to the Environmental aspects of the TPP -- while people were spreading bull about the TPP environmental protections, Obama was busy accomplishing something with the Paris Environmental Accord. Don't look to the the TPP to solve all the world's problems.

We are but one tiny nation in this world. We've used or stolen more than our share of the world's wealth, fire bombed innocent people in Vietnam and elsewhere, etc. It's time we promote a better world for everyone, rather promoting Nationalism.