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FairWinds

(1,717 posts)
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 02:27 PM Aug 2016

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 window—even 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.)
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Stieglitz Blasts 'Outrageous' TPP as Obama Campaigns for Corporate-Friendly Deal (Original Post) FairWinds Aug 2016 OP
So the question is: why is Obama dead set on getting this past? Obama foundation? YOHABLO Aug 2016 #1
I'm wondering the same thing PatSeg Aug 2016 #2
High note for whom? If he passes this it will secure him a seat at "club" for some real cashing in. FighttheFuture Aug 2016 #5
I've heard here Glamrock Aug 2016 #3
Guatemala - Murder Unionists with "Free Trade" Impunity FairWinds Aug 2016 #4
 

FighttheFuture

(1,313 posts)
5. High note for whom? If he passes this it will secure him a seat at "club" for some real cashing in.
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 06:41 PM
Aug 2016

Him making every possible effort, may also do it.

 

FairWinds

(1,717 posts)
4. Guatemala - Murder Unionists with "Free Trade" Impunity
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 05:51 PM
Aug 2016

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 . .

"It’s 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 rights—to association, collective bargaining, and acceptable conditions—by not conducting inspections, registering unions, or ensuring compliance with court orders.

Only 2 percent of Guatemala’s 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."

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