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...
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1205 total square foot office available in great location in International District (first floor of the New Central Building), 2 blocks to ID light rail station and other travel hubs, close to...Critics warn the new agreement would make it harder "to hold Big Oil and Gas accountable" while also threatening "efforts to protect consumers, workers, and the environment."
commondreams.org
Critics warn the new agreement would make it harder "to hold Big Oil and Gas accountable" while also threatening "efforts to protect consumers, workers, and the environment.""The proposal falls far short of the minimum changes necessary to curb NAFTA’s threats to wildlife, clean air and water, and the health of our communities. It preserves rules that would lock in gas exports, encourage fracking, and allow corporate polluters to challenge clean energy policies. It even rolls back standards included in past trade pacts to reinforce international agreements protecting everything from wetlands to sea turtles."
Read full article here: www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/02/sierra-club-nafta-2-0-remains-hazardous-our-health-edit...
NAFTA 2.0 remains hazardous to our health
usatoday.com
Trump’s deal with Canada and Mexico would perpetuate the damage NAFTA has caused, writes Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.Donald Trump will try to sell this deal as the best deal ever made for American workers, but it falls dismally short on a number of our key demands.
“As much as the White House wants to spin this as a win, a lot more work is needed before there’s a NAFTA replacement deal that working families can be happy about. All parties involved should continue working towards a trilateral agreement that actually benefits working people and the planet.”
citizenstrade.org
A Lot More Work Is Needed for a NAFTA Replacement to Benefit Working People and the PlanetBREAKING--
Canada agrees to join trade accord with U.S. and Mexico, sending new NAFTA deal to Congress
washingtonpost.com
Officials say they have reached to an agreement, delivering a key accomplishment to Trump administrationCurrent 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?
