Posted on 10/14/2015 6:15:52 PM PDT by Amntn
One of the nation’s top labor leaders on Wednesday called on the Obama administration to immediately release the text of a far-reaching trade deal that spans the Pacific Rim to Latin America.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka wrote a letter to President Obama arguing that stakeholders, lawmakers and the American public need to see the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to start what is expected to be a long process of evaluating the deal brokered by the United States and 11 other nations.
House and Senate Democrats have made similar appeals since the pact was brokered a week ago during a final round of negotiations in Atlanta.
Trumka said now that the talks are concluded he sees no reason to delay the public release of the TPP text after years of waiting for full access to the agreement's details.
"In my experience, when there is such good news to share, there is no need for secrecy," Trumka wrote. "If TPP will do for the American middle class all that USTR claims, releasing the text would be the single best way to prove that."
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Beat me to it.
They create crisis to complain about them, thinking we are too stupid to remember that.
And so many in here fall for it, because he’s “conservative”.
I think Cruz hurt himself more than he knows with his vote on this and the Corker bill.
I believe Trumka actually won an award from the Communist party.
Hey union boy,
Sit down and shut the hell up.
The dems will be jerking your chain shortly for you all to climb out of your holes to once again blindly vote for another worthless democrat.
Course you all won’t get squat as a result, but hey, your loyalty is somewhat appreciated,dumbass.
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