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Keep calling Congress, urging them to ‘Say NO to Fast Track’
UPDATE — This important effort has been extended to urge folks to continue calling. Thank you to all who have already called — and those of you who are about to — for making your voices heard!
Download a flier with information on Fast Track and get your friends and family to call in, too. Please share this information via email, Facebook, and Twitter.
Fast Track Trade Authority is the first step in passing another flawed trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Passage of Fast Track would restrict Congress to just a yes or no vote on the highly-flawed TPP. It would prevent members of Congress from offering any amendments to change provisions that hurt U.S. workers.
The TPP is being negotiated behind closed doors between the United States and 11 pacific-rim countries, including notorious human and labor rights violators Vietnam, Brunei and Mexico. It dramatically expands corporate control over the U.S. economy and reduces the ability of the U.S. to promote health, safety and environmental regulations with our trading partners.
Call 1-855-712-8441 on Jan. 21 to add your voice to the stop Fast Track campaign.
For more information on the TPP and Fast Track, see today’s column by Lynne Dodson, Secretary Treasurer of the Washington State Labor Council: Congress trades away authority, its responsibility with ‘fast track.’