From the Citizens Trade Campaign (http://www.citizenstrade.org):
Talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have passed the one-year mark, and major questions about the direction of a new pact have still not been answered.
TAKE ACTION: Please sign our petition at https://petitions.signforgood.com/replace-NAFTA demanding that any NAFTA replacement protect jobs at home, protect human rights abroad and raise wages and protect the environment continent-wide.
For decades, NAFTA’s intentionally weak and ineffective labor and environmental standards have enabled big corproations to outsource jobs to Mexico, where they can pay workers less than $2 an hour and dump toxins with impunity, and then ship products back for sale in the United States.
Roughly a million U.S. livelihoods have already been destroyed, with more jobs outsourced every week. And the impact in Mexico has been even worse. Not only have millions of livelihoods been destroyed there, but manufacturing wages in Mexico are now 9% lower than they were before NAFTA was enacted.
NAFTA also grants corporations vast new privileges that make it easier to outsource jobs while empowering them to attack the environmental and health laws on which we all rely.
PLEASE ACT NOW: Tell Congress that NAFTA’s replacement must end the race-to-the-bottom job outsourcing.
Together, we can make a difference.
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