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How teachers, firefighters and service workers union joined the opposition to the TPP and granting fast track trade authority in 2015, and why

06/12/2015

Firefighters and other service workers unions actively campaigned against the trade bills in Congress for the first time in 2015. The public sector unions now see how the closing of American factories, the decline in neighborhoods near plants, affects the demand for public services and the ability of cities and municipalities to pay for the public services. The decline in wages for industrial workers creates a negative perception for the higher wages in the public sector, reducing support from struggling industrial workers. The drastic drop in factory wages with globalization and the shrinking revenues of cities as incomes decline, is leading to a realization in labor that workers are affected in many ways by seemingly unrelated developments in trade and globalization. Another development is the expert information that shows the need for investment in infrastructure in the poorer countries of Latin America, and in the U.S., which would provide significant benefits. The benefits from trade tariff reduction are now small, as most of the benefits were achieved through earlier action in trade.

Grouped Articles

Labor’s Might Seen in Failure of Trade Deal as Unions Allied to Thwart It

New York Times 06.13.2015

Noam Scheiber, Noam, Scheiber

Washington Dysfunction, With a Twist: Democrats Desert Their President

New York Times 06.12.2015

Peter Baker, Peter, Baker, Jennifer Steinhauer, Jennifer, Steinhauer

Unions Declare Partial Victory Against Obama’s Pacific Trade Deal

Wall Street Journal 06.15.2015

Melanie Trottman And William Mauldin, Melanie, Trottman, And, William, Mauldin

Elizabeth Warren’s claim that the bottom 90 percent got ‘zero percent’ of wage growth after Reagan - The Washington Post

Washington Post 10.23.2015

Glenn Kessler, Glenn, Kessler

McConnell warns that trade deal can’t pass Congress before 2016 elections - The Washington Post

Washington Post 12.11.2015

Pail Kane And David Nakamura, Pail, Kane, And, David, Nakamura

Trans-Pacific Trade Pact Would Lift U.S. Incomes, but Not Jobs Overall, Study Says

New York Times 01.25.2016

Jackie Calmes, Jackie, Calmes

After Michigan Loss, Hillary Clinton Sharpens Message on Jobs and Trade

New York Times 03.09.2016

Amy Chozick, Amy, Chozick

Trade and Jobs Key to Victory for Bernie Sanders

New York Times 03.09.2016

Yamiche Alcindor, Yamiche, Alcindor, Patrick Healy, Patrick, Healy

This one anecdote perfectly explains how Donald Trump is hijacking the GOP - The Washington Post

Washington Post 03.28.2016

Greg Sargent, Greg, Sargent

Pacific Trade Deal Likely to Have Narrow Reach

Wall Street Journal 08.01.2015

William Mauldin, William, Mauldin

Simmering for Decades, Anger About Trade Boils Over in ’16 Election

New York Times 03.29.2016

Binyamin Appelbaum, Binyamin, Appelbaum

Why Trade Critics Are Getting Traction

Wall Street Journal 03.30.2016

William A. Galston, William, A., Galston

What the New GOP Means for Wall Street

WSJ 07.19.2016

Hillary Clinton Lays Out Economic Plan, While Criticizing Donald Trump’s

WSJ 08.11.2016

Nick Timiraos

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Explained

09.23.2016

Kevin Granville

More Wealth, More Jobs, but Not for Everyone: What Fuels the Backlash on Trade

The New York Times 09.28.2016

Peter S. Goodman

Sieren's China: Trump's opening gambit with Asia | Asia | DW.COM | 26.11.2016

DW.COM 11.26.2016

Frank Sieren

Trump era confronts organized labor with gravest crisis in decades

Washington Post 12.09.2016

Steven Mufson

Our union celebrates TPP's death. Nafta must be the next trade deal to fall | Richard Trumka

The Guardian 01.24.2017

Richard L Trumka

Trump Nafta Blueprint Raises Concerns in Canada and Mexico

WSJ 03.30.2017

William Mauldin In Washington, Paul Vieira In Ottawa, Juan Montes In Mexico City

America’s urban-rural divides

The Economist 07.06.2017