Trade Deals Must Work for Working People
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and President Barack Obama
Representatives from the United States and 11 other countries concluded negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—the biggest trade deal in U.S. history, and it has the same provisions from past trade deals that give corporate CEOs more power over our communities and make it easier and more profitable to ship jobs overseas.
Sign the petition now to tell U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and President Barack Obama that the TPP or any other future trade deal needs to work for working people, not big corporations.
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U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and President Barack Obama
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You’ve promised the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the most progressive trade deal ever. But the text of the deal tells a different story. I’m calling on you to send the deal back to the negotiating table to make sure this and any other future trade deal benefit working people, not CEOs.
These deals must:
1. Ensure that labor and environmental rules actually are enforced and corporations and countries are held accountable if they don’t follow them;
2. Stop currency manipulation to protect and create jobs here in the United States;
3. Exclude the investor-state dispute settlement legal system, which gives foreign corporations special privileges to sue U.S. taxpayers to recover lost profits;
4. Include strong “rules of origin” so that the agreement gives the advantage to goods actually made in the United States and other signatory countries—supporting good jobs here; and
5. Not undermine climate change commitments.