Call Perlmutter Now
| By Jim Dodd - Nov 7th, 2007 at 9:22 am EST |
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Categories: Foreign Policy & Security, Economic Fairness & Security, Environment / Conservation, Consumer and Worker Protection, Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights
Categories: Foreign Policy & Security, Economic Fairness & Security, Environment / Conservation, Consumer and Worker Protection, Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights
I just called Rep. Perlmutter's office. According to the person who deals with trade issues, Ed has not yet decided how to vote on the US-Peru FTA (HR 3688). This seems odd because the vote is scheduled today.
PLEASE CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND URGE HIM/HER TO VOTE AGAINST THE US-PERU FTA.
The switchboard number is (202) 224-3121.
UPDATE: The vote has been put off until November 8, 2007. You still have time to call. For a report from Columbia University on how bad this agreement still is see http://action.credomobile.com/sirota/2007/11/report_peru_labor_provisions_w.html.
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This really isn't a big deal. 99% of Peruvian imports are already duty-free. It's not a perfect trade agreement, but it's also nowhere close to being as evil as CAFTA or NAFTA, just based on the trade policies as they currently stand.
The Columbia University report compares labor provisions in already-passed trade deals with the proposed provisions in the Peru deal, which congressional Democrats and the White House have sold to the public and rank-and-file lawmakers as a new and improved model that does more to protect workers. But the Columbia report shows how the Peru deal's model actually undermines existing trade laws, which he notes are already "weak, unreliable, and inadequate to the task."
Read the report at: Link