by Dave Johnson | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Last November the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was released to the public on the website of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). On January 26, a slightly different "scrubbed" version was put on the website of the official host of the agreement, New...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Making it in America, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In the week before Valentine’s Day, United Technologies expressed its love for its devoted Indiana employees, workers whose labor had kept the corporation profitable, by informing 2,100 of them at two facilities that it was shipping their factories, their jobs, their...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman went to California's Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and aquarium to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Froman claimed that TPP would be good for the environment, and Monterey's local economy. A trade...
by Larry Cohen | Feb 11, 2016 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
After seven years of secretive negotiations, the presidential primary has finally dragged the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) from the shadows. And just in time. The TPP is called a “trade” deal, but it’s really a deal to make trade more profitable for corporations...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 9, 2016 | Blog, Trans-Pacific Partnership
A century ago, Carl Sandburg dubbed Chicago the City of Big Shoulders: “hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and the nation’s freight handler; stormy, husky brawling.” All of this was true of America itself as well: Nation of...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]https://youtu.be/LhD5OOVI8qQ[/fve] As the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "free-trade" agreement was signed in New Zealand by representatives of the 12 participating countries, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders strongly voiced his opposition and...
