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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.