Help Stop CAFTA!

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From Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO

Help Stop CAFTA—Send Congress a Message Now:

Today, more than 1,000 industrial union members are on Capitol Hill, urging Congress to reject the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Please join them in a Virtual Lobby Day by sending a message to Congress now. Click this link, or keep reading:

www.unionvoice.org/campaign/StopCAFTA

CAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) all over again—but with broader reach. CAFTA, President Bush’s No. 1 trade priority, would extend NAFTA’s job loss, economic inequality, workers’ rights abuse and environmental damage to five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic. Many people call it NAFTA’s twin brother.

It’s important to contact your members of Congress about CAFTA this week because the pressure’s really on them right now. President Bush is hosting leaders of the six CAFTA countries on Thursday and you can bet he’ll be twisting arms on Capitol Hill in an attempt to win support for NAFTA II.

NAFTA has cost nearly 1 million jobs in the United States and has failed to improve life for the workers of Mexico. Rather than creating good jobs and protecting workers, CAFTA would destroy more good U.S. jobs and actually weaken protections for Central American workers. CAFTA would reward governments that clearly violate international workers’ rights standards by granting them trade preferences—and it would shield these governments from legal challenges about their treatment of workers.

CAFTA isn’t good for U.S. workers and it’s sure not good for our counterparts in Central America and the Dominica Republic. Tell your members of Congress to reject this CAFTA. Click here:

www.unionvoice.org/campaign/StopCAFTA

Please join the Virtual Lobby Day by e-mailing your members of Congress and urging friends and colleagues to e-mail Congress today, too. Click here to invite others to join you:

www.unionvoice.org/campaign/StopCAFTA/forward

Thank you for all you do for working families, here and in other countries.

In solidarity,

Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO
May 10, 2005

Posted by elcanche at May 10, 2005 03:54 PM