Stieglitz Blasts 'Outrageous' TPP as Obama Campaigns for Corporate-Friendly Deal
Source: Common Dreams
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has reiterated his opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), saying on Tuesday that President Barack Obama's push to get the trade deal passed during the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress is "outrageous" and "absolutely wrong."
Stiglitz, an economics professor at Columbia University and chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute, made the comments on CNN's "Quest Means Business."
His criticism comes as Obama aggressively campaigns to get lawmakers to pass the TPP in the Nov. 9 to Jan. 3 windoweven as resistance mounts against the 12-nation deal.
Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/24/stiglitz-blasts-outrageous-tpp-obama-campaigns-corporate-friendly-deal
It is really not proper for President Obama to try to push the TPP through
during the lame duck session.
Thanks to Nobel Laureate and Clinton adviser Joe Stieglitz for pointing it out.
(By the way, his books are well worth reading.)
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)PatSeg
(47,370 posts)I would hope he'd want to leave office on a high note.
FighttheFuture
(1,313 posts)Him making every possible effort, may also do it.
Glamrock
(11,794 posts)that the TPP is awesome! Go Blue!
FairWinds
(1,717 posts)The TPP has very similar protections for labor rights as CAFTA -
which is to say, almost none.
This is what you get when you deliberately exclude labor and other stake holders
from trade agreement drafting and discussion.
Here are the basics . .
"Its been seven years since the AFL-CIO, together with six Guatemalan unions, first submitted a complaint to the Department of Labor. They accused Guatemala of failing to protect workers legally guaranteed rightsto association, collective bargaining, and acceptable conditionsby not conducting inspections, registering unions, or ensuring compliance with court orders.
Only 2 percent of Guatemalas working population belongs to a union. It has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world for union activists. The AFL-CIO reported that 72 Guatemalan unionists had been murdered since CAFTA went into effect, as of August 2014, with near-total impunity for their assassins."