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Opposition to TPP grows as postal workers’ union rallies against deal
25-Aug-2016 RT
Some 2,000 members of the American Postal Workers Union have gathered in Miami where they are officially opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Jordan QIZ workers face "undignified" conditions
23-Aug-2016 JustStyle.com
A human rights organisation has condemned what it describes as "undignified" conditions faced by workers in Jordan’s Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ), as well as violations at some textile factories outside these zones.
Pacific and NZ unions left out of Pacific Labour meeting
22-Aug-2016 Radio New Zealand
A meeting on Pacific labour mobility under the PACER Plus trade deal has a glaring omission – the voices of organised labour.
Pacific Alliance members invite Uruguay to sign free trade agreements
11-Aug-2016 MercoPress
Uruguay, which will soon sign a free trade deal with Chile and upgrade its agreement with Mexico, has been invited by Colombia and Peru to turn its current agreements with them into an FTA as well
Free trade is killing Colombian labor activists
2-Aug-2016 The Nation
Workers attempting to exercise their rights have suffered at least 1,466 threats and acts of violence since the trade deal went into effect in 2012.
Potential effects of the Transpacific Agreement (TPP)
1-Jul-2016 La Razón
It is possible that the Transpacific Agreement may stimulate global trade flows. However, those of us that think that this mega – agreement, as in previous cases, will provide unequal benefits, have good reasons to be worried.
Trade or human rights? Integrity of State Department trafficking report still an open question
1-Jul-2016 AFL-CIO
"The Administration appears to be resolute in forging a flawed trade agreement with countries that currently violate fundamental labor and human rights."
Guatemala labor case drags on
21-Jun-2016 Politico
A long-running dispute over Guatemala’s compliance with the labor provisions in the Central American Free Trade Agreement won’t be resolved soon.
Warnings over lack of safeguards in China Australia free trade ChAFTA deal
6-Jun-2016 Invest in Australia
The Electrical Trades Union has lashed the Federal Government following revelations that seven Chinese workers were exploited and paid a fraction of their legal entitlements.
TiSA - draft annexes (2015)
25-May-2016 Wikileaks
As leaked by Wikileaks on 25 May 2016
Citra Mina workers
25-May-2016 Focus
The Philippine government is hoping the EU-Philippines FTA wil facilitate more tuna exports to the EU, but the industry is riddled with issues of low wages, unfair labor practices, poor and slave-like working conditions.
Study predicts modest economic boost for US from Obama trade pact
20-May-2016 Washington Post
New report from the International Trade Commission says the TPP would marginally boost the US economy over the next 15 years, but it also would erode employment in manufacturing sectors
No deal is better than a bad deal: 4 years of US-Colombia free trade pact
18-May-2016 Colombia Reports
Since a free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia came into force on May 15, 2012, exports from Colombia to the US have been cut in half while violence against labor rights workers persists.
Colombia not enforcing US trade deal labor standards - unions
18-May-2016 Reuters
Colombia has failed to enforce worker protections in a free trade agreement with the United States, U.S. and Colombian labor unions said, raising questions about similar provisions in the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
TTIP will damage public health and climate, says official report
16-May-2016 War on Want
The controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will have negative effects on public health, jobs and the climate, according to the official impact assessment.
NAFTA asparagus
6-May-2016 Crozet Gazette
After Peru signed a TPP-like free trade pact with the U.S. in 2007, it has become the largest exporter of fresh asparagus. But asparagus monoculture/agribusiness has resulted in water shortages in the Ica Valley.
India, Saudi Arabia signed five agreements to boost bilateral co-operation
6-Apr-2016 Jagran Josh
India and Saudi Arabia inked five agreements to boost the bilateral cooperation between the two nations.
An inconvenient truth about free trade
1-Apr-2016 Bloomberg
“We have developed a politician who encourages the most dangerous kind of citizenship a democracy can know—the panicky, grasping, idealless kind.”
The era of free trade might be over. That’s a good thing.
18-Mar-2016 New York Times
In the United States, globalization is widely accepted as a contributor to both wage stagnation and the growth in inequality.
EU free trade deal will trap Vietnam in low-wage, low-skill cycle
16-Mar-2016 EurActiv
The EU’s Free Trade Agreement with Vietnam will trap the Asian country in a low-profit-low-wage cycle.