On April 8, President Bush sent the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to Capitol Hill and Congress must act on it within 90 legislative days.
Workers across the United States are mobilizing to let members of Congress know that America's workers oppose this deal because it won't work for workers in either country. Bush's trade policies have contributed to millions of lost jobs, shrinking paychecks and a U.S. trade deficit of $712 billion in 2007.
Colombia's human rights record is atrocious. Some 39 trade unionists were murdered in 2007, and another 17 have been killed in 2008—a rate of more than one a week. Of the more than 2,500 murders of trade unionists since 1986, the government has successfully prosecuted less than 3 percent of these cases.
- , (April 8, 2008).
- Download the flier, .
- Read the fact sheet, .
- Read the report, .
- Read a new report from the Latin America Working Group Education Fund, .
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JOHN MCCAIN ON TRADE - Sen. John McCain supported the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and voted for every other bad trade agreement that has come up—despite their negative impacts on U.S. workers. Get his full record here.
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