Guest guest Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 --- Working Families e-Activist Network <peoplepower wrote: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:32:37 GMT " Working Families e-Activist Network " <peoplepower " Mary Riley " <mk2967 Call Right Now to Stop CAFTA Dear Working Families e-Activist, If we don't stop CAFTA this week, we will be stuck with a job-killing trade deal just like NAFTA. President George W. Bush is lobbying hard for the House to pass CAFTA this week. CAFTA--the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement--would extend NAFTA's disastrous job loss, workers' rights abuses and environmental damage throughout Central America. Your U.S. representative needs to hear from you NOW. Urge him or her to oppose CAFTA by calling this number toll-free: 1-800-718-1008 Tell your representative: " I strongly urge you to oppose CAFTA. CAFTA is based on the failed NAFTA and will expand NAFTA's legacy of lost jobs, low wages and trampled workers' rights to six more countries. " Just like NAFTA, CAFTA does not include meaningful protections of workers' rights--but it gives trade breaks to countries that violate workers' rights. Highlight these points when you call your representative's office: * CAFTA is based on the failed NAFTA, and it will expand NAFTA's legacy of lost jobs, low wages and trampled workers' rights to six more countries. * Under NAFTA and other failed U.S. trade policies, the U.S. trade deficit reached a record $600 billion last year as American companies relocated to take advantage of lower wages, weaker worker and environmental protections and improved access to the U.S. market. Even companies that didn't destroy jobs used the threat of leaving the United States to break union organizing drives and win concessions at the bargaining table. * The NAFTA-related trade deficit cost U.S. workers nearly 900,000 net jobs through 2002--and the trade deficit only has grown since then, despite predictions by NAFTA supporters in the 1990s that the agreement would generate trade surpluses for another 15 years. We can't afford another NAFTA. Please call your representative now and urge him or her to oppose CAFTA. Your U.S. representative needs to hear from you NOW. Urge him or her to oppose CAFTA by calling this toll-free number: 1-800-718-1008 Tell your representative: " I strongly urge you to oppose CAFTA. CAFTA is based on the failed NAFTA and will expand NAFTA's legacy of lost jobs, low wages and trampled workers' rights to six more countries. " Thank you for working to stop another job-killing trade deal. In solidarity, Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO July 25, 2005 Visit The Union Shop: http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/a7ayjm114Ptq/ ----------------- Tell your friends and co-workers to help save jobs by taking action to stop CAFTA. Invite them to be part of this important campaign. http://www.unionvoice.org/join-forward.html?domain=wfean & r=fdayjm11fugN If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for Working Families e-Activist Network at: http://www.unionvoice.org/wfean/join.html?r=fdayjm11fugNE ----------------- If you would like to from the e-Activist Network, visit your subscription management page at: http://www.unionvoice.org/wfean/smp.tcl?nkey=d66e8n2v76bex3 & *********************************************** Click on the link below for more information from your union, online activism and benefits. http://www.unionvoice.org/ *********************************************** Fight back for stem cells http://www.StemPAC.com A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it http://stopviolence.care2.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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