CAFTA Is Not Good For Workers

Contrary to a statement made by President Bush in North Carolina, the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is not good for workers.

CAFTA is riddled with shortfalls.

• It lacks any real protections for workers’ rights
• It takes away good paying middle-class jobs
• It expands the openings for companies to move out of America
• It allows foreign companies to contest federal environmental laws
• It is not about free trade; it’s more about giving Wall Street financiers license to have foreign entities violate labor rights and the environment

If this trade deal was meant for the people, why doesn’t this pact eliminate all barriers and allow individuals to buy goods, whether it be for prescriptions or computer components, directly from the companies in those countries. CAFTA is not about people or workers, it is all about businesses.

NAFTA proved that we can’t afford to allow corporations to bottom feed on poverty-stricken people in Central America, as they did in Mexico, at the expensen workers.

A vote on CAFTA in the House of Representatives is likely to take place by July 28. The Bush administration and the Republicans are working shamelessly to get CAFTA passed.

This is going to be an extremely close vote and we need your help.  So take a moment and click on the link below to email your member of Congress and tell them to vote NO on CAFTA. After you have done that, please forward this email to your friends and family members and ask them to do the same.

To take action, click here.

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