U.S. Chamber, AFL-CIO Clash At Senate Hearing Over Obama’s Free Trade Push

[Purveyor]

Source: Washington Post

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Big business and organized labor squared off Tuesday over President Obama's trade agenda, as a key Senate committee prepared to vote on legislation to give the administration more authority to complete a major deal in the Asia Pacific.

"The livelihoods of workers are at stake here," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, who opposes the legislation, said at a Senate Finance Committee hearing. "It’s important that we get it right... We need a different deal."

But Thomas Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, implored lawmakers to support the fast-track bill that would help the administration wrap up negotiations with 11 other countries on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Failing to complete the trade pact would be the "equivalent of going out and resigning from the world," Donohue said. "Ninety-five percent of the people that we want to sell something to don’t live in the United States."

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/04/21/u-s-chamber-afl-cio-clash-at-senate-hearing-over-obamas-free-trade-push/

[antigop]

1. if the US Chamber of Commerce wants something, it's not in my interest. nt

[midnight]

2. Tpp is not good for families that need to work for a living.

[Dragonfli]

3. It's a clear picture to represent the question

Whose side are you on?

[tomsaiditagain]

4. New World Order Chapter #10 of 20: Trans Pacific Partnership

Nothing the people of the USA says or does is going to stop the total corporate takeover of the world.

The mega wealthy already rule the world, just getting their corporate stock interests to the top of the heap is all they are doing.

Bilderberg oh my