In 2010, two major unions, the United Auto Workers and the United Food and Commercial Workers, supported the Obama Administration’s free trade deal with South Korea because they thought it would
One of the worst aspects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the Investor State Dispute Settlement courts, extrajudicial bodies that allow corporations to sue nations for affecting their profits while
After a couple of Bernie Sanders post that are currently at something like 750 comments, I’m sure I’ve prepared readers for an in depth discussion of the problems with the Trans-Pacific Pa
Even if you believe that the Trans-Pacific Partnership will bring benefits to the United States outside of the wealthy, the widespread practice of currency manipulation by the Asian nations included i
Last week, the New York Times editorial board nailed the fundamental problem with the Trans Pacific Partnership on labor issues: Obama administration officials say the T.P.P. goes further on labor sta
The U.S. and Vietnam have a side agreement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership that supposedly makes it easier for labor unions to organize. It sounds good in theory but probably will do nothing to prote
One of the things that drives me most crazy about the self-congratulatory rhetoric promoters of trade deals routinely use is that free trade is awesome because of the Asian economies and so we should
If you are in the Hudson Valley, remember to come see me at Marist College in Poughkeepsie tonight. Talking about Out of Sight, the global race to the bottom, and the destruction of the American worki