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 moreSign On: Add your name to official public comments to the US International Trade Commission demanding its #NAFTA report highlight critical shortcomings on jobs, wages, worker rights & the environment.
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Submit Public Comments on Trump's NAFTA Proposal
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The official report on NAFTA 2.0 must highlight its failures on jobs, wages, health & the environmentAfter making trade policy the space where we decide our environmental laws, labor laws, public health laws, and food safety laws, the GOP is mad that trade policy is the place we would consider protecting LGBT rights.
Let's be clear, there are plenty of hideous pieces of the new NAFTA agreement, but after pushing so many policy decisions into trade agreements, GOP anger over LGBT rights rings a bit hollow.
GOP lawmakers protest LGBT protections in new NAFTA deal
thehill.com
A group of 38 GOP lawmakers is protesting the inclusion of protections for LGBT workers in the newly negotiated U.S. trade proposal with Mexico and Canada.seattle.craigslist.org/see/off/d/office-in-great-central/6733500523.html
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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.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?
