UAW President Bob King Submits Statement Against TPP In It’s Current Form (S1900)

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http://nhlabornews.com/2014/01/uaw-president-bob-king-submits-statement-against-tpp-in-its-current-form-s1900/

Statement for the Record
Hearing: Advancing Congress’s Trade Agenda, The Role of Trade Negotiating Authority

By UAW President Bob King

United States Senate Committee on Finance
215 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

The UAW strongly agrees with the Obama administration that the most important challenge facing the United States is the dramatic growth in income inequality, and we join President Obama in his conviction that trade agreements should serve to reduce rather than exacerbate this inequality. We support agreements that grow our economy, enhance domestic manufacturing, strengthen the enforcement of labor rights, and address climate change through enforceable standards.

The UAW strongly believes that President Obama’s first trade agreement, The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), must contain three essential objectives: 1) the preservation and expansion of U.S. manufacturing employment; 2) the recognition and protection through strong effective enforcement mechanisms of global labor rights under the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work; and 3) the enforcement of strong environmental standards.

The ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work covers four fundamental principles regarding rights at work:

Freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining;
Elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labor;
Effective abolition of child labor;
Elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.


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