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 more100+ House Democrats agree – Until NAFTA 2.0’s new Big Pharma giveaways Trump added last year are removed, Congress will not be forced to act on the deal.
Read and share the letter here: bit.ly/2XWAthf
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Thanks, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal for standing up for workers, the environment, and access to affordable medicines in the new NAFTA 👏👏
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‘This is a bad deal.’ — These reps say that Trump missed the chance to renegotiate a winning deal for American workers with NAFTA 2.0
BREAKING--
"All of the leading Democratic contenders have signed on to a statement opposing Congressional passage of Trump’s renegotiated NAFTA unless major changes are made"!
Opinion | The 2020 Democrats just made a move on a big Trump weakness
washingtonpost.com
The leading Democratic presidential candidates are all demanding big changes to Trump's NAFTA rewrite.Rep. Blumenauer Rules Out USMCA Vote Before August Recess (1)
news.bloomberglaw.com
A vote on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement before the August recess is “not going to happen,” House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said."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.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?
