Tell Congress: We won’t stand for the TPP

Call your members of Congress to tell them to VOTE NO on the TPP.

 

 

The TPP will create rules and obligations that govern an estimated 40 percent of the world’s economy, yet few Americans are aware of its impact or even its existence. Unfortunately, the last 20 years of corporate-driven free trade policy has created a downward spiral in which jobs have been shipped overseas and worker, environmental and consumer protections have been eroded.

 

We all remember the economic devastation left in the wake of NAFTA; nearly 1 million U.S. jobs were lost to NAFTA, including both manufacturing jobs and service sector jobs. Now, think of the TPP as “NAFTA on steroids.” Our communities can’t afford more offshoring of our jobs, more erosion of our wages or more corporate influence over our economy.      

 

Under TPP rules, Americans could see: