Executive Council Statement
Time for a New Track: Trade Policy Making Must Be Transparent, Democratic and Participatory
… the interests of working people. When decisions about economic policy are made behind closed doors, those decisions tend to advance the policy preferences of political and economic elites, not the broad interests of the populace at large. U.S. … see no sign that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and other trade negotiations currently underway are likely to make trade policy materially better from the perspective of workers or the public interest. Trade negotiations, trade … and Colombia have experienced increasing labor repression, often in the form of threats and violence. The lack of decent work, combined with a flood of subsidized agricultural exports from the U.S., has driven too many workers and farmers from …