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Focus on: TTIP & labour and services

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Open letter to Věra Jourová: from Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield, words in the wind
10-Mar-2016 La Quadrature du Net
The "Privacy Shield", an agreement stemming from an exchange of letters, only contains vague promises.
Prosperity undermined
23-Aug-2015 Public Citizen
The status quo trade model’s 21-year record of massive U.S. trade deficits, job loss and wage suppression.
TAFTA: the myth of job creation
5-Oct-2014 Marianne
While the seventh round of negotiations on the transatlantic treaty commenced on Monday near Washington, Marianne interviewed the economist Thomas Porcher on job creation.
The European Commission must not trade off our crown jewels when negotiating the EU-US trade and investment deal
19-Jun-2014 EPHA
SOLIDAR, the Social Platform, EPSU and EPHA are jointly calling on the European Commission to explicitly exclude public services, including social and health services, from the ongoing TTIP negotiations.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and labour
30-Dec-2014 European Parliament
Negotiations on the labour provisions in TTIP will start in 2015. This briefing for the European Parliament highlights some of the issues.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and UK healthcare
12-Nov-2014 The BMJ
It is only now, in the context of EU-US negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), that the health implications of free trade agreements have become a front line political concern in the UK.
The TTIP will lead to 600 000 job losses in the EU
8-Mar-2015 No al TTIP
A study presented in the European Parliament predicted that the controversial agreement that Brussels and Washington are negotiating behind closed doors would bring about losses in jobs, economic capacity, salaries as well as exports.
The TTIP’s impact on labour rights: the chronicle of an anticipated disaster
9-Dec-2014 El Diario
Social dumping and a regulatory race to the bottom are the first consequences that are forecast, of we know so far of the TTIP – the Free Trade Agreement between the United States and the European Union.
TISA, TTIP, CETA, TPP : la mort du service public
21-Aug-2015 Acidus
Les partisans des libéralisations misent sur de nouveaux accords de libre-échange qui priveraient les Etats de leur capacité à fixer les règles du jeu et accéléreraient le démontage du service public.
Trade and privacy: complicated bedfellows?
18-Nov-2016 Institute for Information Law
How to achieve data protection-proof free trade agreements?
Trade deal ’worth £10bn a year’
1-Sep-2014 The Courier
UK Government has hit back at critics of a new trade deal, insisting it will create jobs, increase wages and boost the UK economy by £10 billion a year.
Trans-Atlantic labor union calls for higher labor standards in US-European Union trade agreement
27-Mar-2014 Workers Uniting
"We view TTIP as a threat to the rights of workers in Europe," said Len McCluskey, General Secretary of UNITE the Union in the UK and Ireland. "We can’t afford to import America’s low labor rights standards."
TTIP - German welfare organisations demand exclusion of social services
24-Aug-2014 Solidar
In a common position paper, SOLIDAR member Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) as a member of the German coordination organization of welfare organization together with another network outlined their position on the ongoing negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) regarding social and health care services.
TTIP and the Scottish referendum
28-Aug-2014 WDM
Whatever the outcome of the independence referendum on 18 September, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership could force Scotland to adopt a system that allows US multinationals to provide public services.
TTIP must work for the people, or it won’t work at all
22-May-2014
Leaders of the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations and the European Trade Union Confederation today call for a "gold standard" EU-US trade deal that improves living and working conditions on both sides of the Atlantic.
TTIP or the disintegration of the EU
10-Mar-2015 Estrella Digital
Ecologistas en Acción and ‘No al TTIP’ consider that the EU-US trade agreement will mean reductions in labor rights and these will be justified by “cost reduction based on the anti-trade union policy of the US – that has not ratified ILO conventions – and on labor reforms imposed by the Troika”.
TTIP will cost one million jobs: official
2-Sep-2014 War on Want
War on Want together with major UK trade unions and other campaigns groups has released figures showing that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) currently under negotiation between the EU and USA will cost at least one million jobs if it is negotiated to its conclusion.
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.
TTIP, CETA, TISA and public services
5-Aug-2015 War on Want
What is the threat from free trade agreements to public services?
TTIP: A charter for deregulation, an attack on jobs, an end to democracy.
5-Mar-2014 Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
This new booklet, written by John Hilary, Executive Director of War on Want, explains in short what TTIP is and how it will affect the lives of all of us if it comes into force.