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Cleveland Jobs with Justice Global Trade Committee The Cleveland Jobs with Justice Global Trade Committee tracks events and legislation at state and national levels relating to international trade, primarily as trade affects jobs and working standards. Our goal is for trade pacts to be negotiated for the good of working people and a sustainable environment, rather than in the interests of corporate profit. We currently support the Trade Reform Accountability Development and Employment Act (TRADE ACT)! We fought against NAFTA. We fought against "Fast Track." We fought against CAFTA. Now we can fight for the TRADE Act! International trade is essential to the economic survival of the United States. However, trade agreements increasingly have been crafted in theinterests of corporate profit and to the disadvantage of working people. NAFTA-model trade agreements negotiated by our government over the past few decades have resulted in outsourcing of good jobs from states like Ohio to nations where workers can be exploited and where environmental laws are weak or can be ignored. There is hope in Ohio of reviving manufacturing through "green jobs". If U.S. trade agreements are not improved first, these jobs will go abroad. |
Passage of the TRADE Act will begin to repair the United States’ failed trade policy by stipulating what trade agreements can and should do to improve the lives of working people here and abroad by: * Enforcing internationally recognized (ILO) labor standards * Rewarding companies that stay in the U.S. * Permitting nations to enforce environmental protections * Ensuring product and food safety * Ending the passage of trade agreements via ‘Fast Track’ without review by Congress * Overhauling existing flawed trade pacts like NAFTA before negotiating new agreements TAKE A MINUTE TO SUPPORT FAIR TRADE! If you live in Ohio Call: Sen. Sherrod Brown: 202-224-2315 and thank him for the TRADE Act Sen. George Voinovich: 202-224-3353 and ask that he co-sponsor the TRADE Act in the Senate. You can also call the: Capitol Hill Switch Board: 202-224-3121 and ask the following Representatives in Congress to co-sponsor the TRADE Act HR3012 ...... Steve Austria, 16th District John Boehner, 8th District Steve Driehaus, 1st District Jim Jordan, 4th District Steven LaTourette, 14th District Robert Latta, 5th District Jean Schmidt, 2nd District Pat Tiberi, 12th District Michael Turner, 3rd District .... or call the Capitol Hill Switch Board: 202-224-3121 and thank your following Representative in Congress for co-sponsoring the TRADE Act HR 3012 John Boccieri, 16th District Marcia Fudge, 11th District Marcy Kaptur, 9th District Dennis Kucinich, 10th District Mary Jo Kilroy, 15th District Tim Ryan, 17th District Zachary Space, 18th District Betty Sutton, 13th District Charles Wilson, 6th District Not sure who your U.S. Representative is? Find out here. |