Washington
Fair Trade
Coalition
The Washington Fair Trade Coalition (WFTC) is a coalition of over 60 Washington labor, faith, environmental, farmer, and social justice groups that are committed to creating a fair, balanced, and sustainable global trading system.
News & Analysis
We Do the Work Radio Show on the new NAFTA
Have you been wondering holds up to the trade just community's demands? Last week the Washington Fair Trade Coalition got to talk with our friends at We Do the Work about exactly what's in the new NAFTA agreement from ISDS to food safety to access to medicines and...
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2018 Washington Fair Trade Coalition Breakfast
Join us at our annual breakfast! Keynote Speaker: Indira Trejo: How trade policy affects workers, families, and communities and how we can move our work beyond NAFTA (now USMCA) Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Doors open at 7:30 – Program from 8 to 9:00 AM...
read more"But what’s hidden here is much worse: a largely bipartisan trade-policy consensus in the United States, reaching back at least to the passage of NAFTA in 1994, that enriches transnational corporations and the 1 percent, while screwing over ordinary people in all sorts of ways."
Check out the Nation's 9 reasons you should care about trade:
9 Reasons Why You Should Care About Trade
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Elites make trade boring for a reason. Here’s how to fight back.Trade policy affects jobs, wages, food safety, public health and the environment — and was a major issue in the 2016 presidential election. Sign this petition to urge debate moderators to ask presidential candidates about trade: org.salsalabs.com/o/1034/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=23670
"Say NO to NAFTA 2.0"! Awesome work by some of our volunteers this weekend greeting people headed to Folklife!
"Seniors, especially, shouldn’t have to shoulder the burden of ever-increasing drug costs. Medicare drug prices are rising at 10 times the cost of inflation. Adding a bad trade deal will only make this worse. We need our elected officials to take a stand on this issue, and work to make the agreement one that encourages competition and improves access to affordable medicines, instead of restricting it." #ReplaceNAFTA
Is NAFTA 2.0 a Trojan horse for even higher drug prices? | The Stand
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(Feb. 25, 2019) — Many Washingtonians, including myself and other members of the Washington State Alliance for Retired Americans, breathed a sigh of relief when the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed last year.“Having corporate coalitions packed with chronic outsourcers of American jobs spending millions to pass NAFTA 2.0 certainly eviscerates Trump’s claim to have replaced NAFTA with a totally different deal that is good for working people,” said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch.
Companies Backing NAFTA Overhaul Outsourced Hundreds Of Thousands Of Jobs
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An analysis by the nonprofit Public Citizen raises questions about Donald Trump’s plans for a revised trade deal.Current Campaign
Free Trade Facts
The Impact Of Free Trade Policy In Washington State
Manufacturing Jobs Lost in Washington State
Jobs Lost due to the Rising Trade Deficit With Mexico
Current Free Trade policy has proven to be a losing battle for workers, farmers, and communities in WA State and around the world.
Why Should I Care?
- Mexican farmers unable to compete with cheaper American
corn lose their land and migrate to cities to find work in maquilladoras
(sweatshops) or to the US and WA State as farm workers
- 65,193 workers were certified under Trade Adjustment Assistance
1994-2011 as directly losing their job because of US trade policy (US DoL statistics).
positions associated with these jobs such as drivers, suppliers and
small businesses do not qualify and are not counted.
- Mexican farmers unable to compete with cheaper American
corn lose their land and migrate to cities to find work in maquilladoras (sweatshops) or to the US and WA State as farm workers
Fair Trade
Not Free Trade
What Would It Look Like?
For too long, U.S. trade policy has benefited transnational corporations at the expense of workers’ rights, consumer safety and the environment at home and abroad. The Washington Fair Trade Coalition, working with local, national, and international partners, aims to build a new model of trade, a model that supports our communities and our world. What could that look like?
