Her opinion in The Hill reads like an apology for NAFTA. She claims there will be enforcement on worker protections and environmental issues without ever discussing the by-passing of legal structures here and elsewhere that is written into the pact.

THIS is why I will never support HRC and will encourage all my members to do the same. Why should labor help elect a Dem that will turn around and screw us, when Republicans will do it for free?

Obama followed in the footsteps of his favorite Ronnie Raygun by betraying his promise to the Unions and pushing through labor hating trade agreements.

Thru less than gentle words, I conveyed my displeasure and speculated as to what her "price" might have been to prompt her to turn her back on her constituents. I also said I'd be anxious to support whoever opposes her when her term is up!

support this. I for one will donate only to the individual.

At least according to some posters here.

Disagreement it is, betrayal it is not.

this is caving for whatever reason and to further
discredit the unions.

This trade agreement has far too serious consequences
to be called a "simple disagreement".

However, we have seen how often Obama put on his
walking shoes to protect the American workers!
NEVER!

It is truly anti-worker, pro big pharma, pro big business, anti-labor, anti-environment. It gives big business the ability to override government laws that reduce their expected profits. It goes further to neuter workers than NAFTA. Open your eyes and see what's out there aobut this. If it's so good, why is it so hidden? Where is the transparency? Why were no labor or environemntal reps. appointed by Obama, but instead all were big business lobbyist?

know this is a good program and may even endorse portions.

AFL-CIO have a long argued against TPP as one more means of off-shoring jobs, undercutting US wages, weakening environmental controls and endangering work place safety regulation.

What have you read that suggests otherwise?

They'll like to be able to do the same to Malaysia and Vietnam, too. Like most trade deals this will be a mixed bag for labor. Heavy manufacturing in the US will be helped, and consumer manufacturing will be hurt, just like it was with NAFTA and CAFTA. The increasingly silly attempts to portray the TPP as some sort of Armageddon rather than the kind of give-and-take that trade agreements have been for the past 25 years doesn't really help opposition to the TPP...

I think you must read a different history of economics and trade negotiation than I. The wholesale rape of the economy is not what I had in mind. If the details of this pact are so beneficial why are they classified so they cannot be discussed by congress and the people? What happened to advice and consent? The Unified Executive is the only law of the land?

After watching my career off-shored, along with thousands of other people, I no longer trust this kind of trade pact. NAFTA and CAFTA are not healthy responses to our economy. If TPP and TISA are such a good deal for us why were we locked out of the room while the lobbyists wrote the agreements?

AFL-CIO won't back down and I won't either. I think you live in another world, not the one we work in.

history says you are wrong about the AFL-CIO and the tpp is far from being a good program, unless you love big fat, obscene corporate giveaways.