Let's fill the Twittersphere with the next #NoFastTrack Twitterstorm. More and more people are catching on to the threat posed by the TPP. We're seeing more stories in the mainstream media and the phony progressive group, www.pcaj.org, had to find some real people to shill for it!
We’ll hold it at the same time as usual, Thursday from 1-2 pm Eastern. We're using the #NoFastTrack hashtag.
Happy Tweeting!
Sample Tweets
HAPPENING NOW! Join our #NoFastTrack Twitterstorm for the #TPP! Today, March 26 from 1-2 pm Eastern
Whoa! New leaked text of #TPP shows it opens the door for foreign suits against US http://nyti.ms/1HHruhT #NoFastTrack
Florida doesn't buy Citigroup exec's #TPP promises http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/blog/2015/03/20/florida-isnt-buying-citigroup-execs-tpp-promises/ … … #NoFastTrack
Multinational front group called the 'US' Chamber of Commerce tells lies http://ibt.io/tpa pic.twitter.com/Z03P96fqyf #TPP #NoFastTrack
If #TPP is so good for American workers, why do @AFLCIO @CWAUnion @Teamsters say #NoFastTrack: http://bit.ly/1CLP0ek pic.twitter.com/YcNomlbbiQ
Please don't betray us, @RonWyden! Don't cave in to GOP! Stand strong and say #NoFastTrack for #TPP! https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=923903510963109
The Coalition to Stop Fast Track has a message for @ronwyden http://www.wweek.com/portland/ #NoFastTrack #TPP
MoveOn: If Senator @RonWyden Supports Fast Track for #TPP, We’ll Back a Challenger in 2016 Primary http://front.moveon.org/oregon-moveon-members-if-sen-wyden-supports-fast-track-for-tpp-well-back-a-progressive-challenger-in-2016-primary/#.VRMFnaatygM.twitter … #NoFastTrack
#TPP isn't about 'free trade.' It's about corporate power, says @thenation: http://bit.ly/1FTyM3m #NoFastTrack pic.twitter.com/hZuxsJabN6
Former Citigroup exec USTR says #TPP will level the playing field. REAL progressive groups know better #NoFastTrack pic.twitter.com/E0thpe1QqH
The long arm of Richard Nixon reaches from beyond the grave for one more power grab pic.twitter.com/i4Iddd96ix #NoFastTrack #TPP
Unions aren’t the only ones who say #NoFastTrack for the #TPP. So do digital rights advocates. https://youtu.be/WDKzwB8GhN0
Unions aren’t the only ones who say #NoFastTrack for the #TPP. So do as many as 60 GOP U.S. House members http://www.wsj.com/articles/house-republican-bloc-poses-a-threat-to-pacific-trade-deal-1426618844 #tcot
Unions aren’t the only ones who say #NoFastTrack for the TPP. So do hundreds of REAL progressive groups https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploadswysiwig/Wyden%20Fast%20Track%20Letter%20Final_0.pdf #UniteBlue
Unions aren’t the only ones who say #NoFastTrack for the #TPP. So does the NAACP. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/234014-we-need-a-voice-oppose-fast-track-for-the-tpp
The ENTIRE US labor movement is united around #NoFastTrack for the unfair, job-killing #TPP: http://bit.ly/LaborLetter #1u
PROMISE: The SKorea trade deal would create 70K US jobs. REALITY: It COST 84K US jobs http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2015/03/by-3rd-anniversary-trade-deal-with-s.html #NoFastTrack #TPP
Showing posts with label TPP; trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TPP; trade. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Today's Teamster News 06.22.14
Trade
TISA Angry Bear ...As with leaks from the secret Tran-Pacific Partnership negotiations, this leak shows that the largest corporations are working to bypass recent efforts by governments to rein them in by pushing through “trade” agreements that override their ability to write their own laws and regulations...
Trade Treaties and the Coming Rule of the Global Corporatocracy naked capitalism ...The intentions of those negotiating the multiple trade treaties are now crystal clear: to place complete power and control over our economies in the hands of the largest global corporations, many of which bear the lion’s share of responsibility for the economic and environmental mess we’re already in...
State Battles
John Doe special prosecutor says he voted for Scott Walker in recall Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...This disclosure is intended to counter claims by conservative groups that they are being targeted by prosecutors because they backed the first-term Republican governor...
Same song, second verse for Right to Work issue Springfield News-Leader ...Lawmakers will move early on so-called Right to Work next year, Rep. Kevin Austin said this past week. Sound familiar? It's the same message lawmakers shared with the public last year...
A $15 minimum wage in Indy? Unlikely Indianapolis Star ...t's a trend cities in Indiana won't be joining anytime soon. State law doesn't allow it...
War on Workers
LIUNA: Fix Our Bridges, Roads; Fund the Highway Bill AFL-CIO Now ...With the Highway Trust Fund running out of money, thanks to congressional inaction, crucial highway and bridge repair projects could be shut down starting this summer...
Social Security's continuing assault on its own customer service Los Angeles Times ...The downside of drastic cutbacks in the agency's staffing levels, number of field offices and general commitment to service is detailed in a report issued by the Senate Committee on Aging in conjunction with a hearing on the subject Wednesday...
Amazon Living Wage campaigners place dummy book on site as protest Guardian ...Campaigners who have been calling on Amazon to "end poverty pay" for months have brought their battle directly to the internet retailer's front doorstep with the launch of a "book" on Amazon's own website slamming the way it treats its workers...
German economics minister “austerity policies have failed” billy blog ...what is apparent in modern day Europe is the increasing breakdown of social stability and an emerging law of the jungle driven by unemployment, poverty and the inevitable social exclusion...
Citigroup’s Dark Pools: Here’s Why the Public Doesn’t Trust Wall Street Wall Street on Parade ...Citigroup may be operating one of Wall Street’s largest collections of dark pools, trading stocks 24/7 around the globe in de facto unregulated stock exchanges which it operates under a dizzying array of different names...
TISA Angry Bear ...As with leaks from the secret Tran-Pacific Partnership negotiations, this leak shows that the largest corporations are working to bypass recent efforts by governments to rein them in by pushing through “trade” agreements that override their ability to write their own laws and regulations...
Trade Treaties and the Coming Rule of the Global Corporatocracy naked capitalism ...The intentions of those negotiating the multiple trade treaties are now crystal clear: to place complete power and control over our economies in the hands of the largest global corporations, many of which bear the lion’s share of responsibility for the economic and environmental mess we’re already in...
State Battles
John Doe special prosecutor says he voted for Scott Walker in recall Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...This disclosure is intended to counter claims by conservative groups that they are being targeted by prosecutors because they backed the first-term Republican governor...
Same song, second verse for Right to Work issue Springfield News-Leader ...Lawmakers will move early on so-called Right to Work next year, Rep. Kevin Austin said this past week. Sound familiar? It's the same message lawmakers shared with the public last year...
A $15 minimum wage in Indy? Unlikely Indianapolis Star ...t's a trend cities in Indiana won't be joining anytime soon. State law doesn't allow it...
War on Workers
LIUNA: Fix Our Bridges, Roads; Fund the Highway Bill AFL-CIO Now ...With the Highway Trust Fund running out of money, thanks to congressional inaction, crucial highway and bridge repair projects could be shut down starting this summer...
Social Security's continuing assault on its own customer service Los Angeles Times ...The downside of drastic cutbacks in the agency's staffing levels, number of field offices and general commitment to service is detailed in a report issued by the Senate Committee on Aging in conjunction with a hearing on the subject Wednesday...
Amazon Living Wage campaigners place dummy book on site as protest Guardian ...Campaigners who have been calling on Amazon to "end poverty pay" for months have brought their battle directly to the internet retailer's front doorstep with the launch of a "book" on Amazon's own website slamming the way it treats its workers...
German economics minister “austerity policies have failed” billy blog ...what is apparent in modern day Europe is the increasing breakdown of social stability and an emerging law of the jungle driven by unemployment, poverty and the inevitable social exclusion...
Citigroup’s Dark Pools: Here’s Why the Public Doesn’t Trust Wall Street Wall Street on Parade ...Citigroup may be operating one of Wall Street’s largest collections of dark pools, trading stocks 24/7 around the globe in de facto unregulated stock exchanges which it operates under a dizzying array of different names...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Jay Leno joins fight against TPP because of Brunei sharia law
Jay Leno and other celebrities are taking up the fight against the TPP now that the Sultan of Brunei imposed a law requiring stoning for adultery and same-sex acts.
Brunei is one of 12 countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership. According to Politico Pro:
Jay Leno and other Hollywood celebrities have taken to the streets and the Internet to protest Brunei’s implementation of an extreme version of the Islamic religious code known as Sharia law, with some calling for the tiny Southeast Asian nation’s ouster from a major Asia-Pacific trade deal...
Leno and the Feminist Majority Foundation hit the streets Monday to protest the country’s establishment of the religious legal system (http://bit.ly/1jneB2N), which includes such penalties as death by stoning for adultery and same-sex acts. The group is holding a protest rally outside the Beverly Hills Hotel, one of the properties owned by the Dorchester Collection, a global luxury hotel operator controlled by Brunei’s government...
Actress Frances Fisher, who currently stars on ABC’s Resurrection, made a point of calling for the U.S. to kick Brunei out of the TPP because of the country’s new legal code. “The TPP is a dangerous pact in its own right,” Fisher said at the rally. “Like NAFTA, it will off-shore millions of good paying American jobs, threaten environmental regulations, like Beverly Hills brand new fracking ban, jeopardize internet freedom and access to low cost generic drugs.”
Props to Politico Pro, by the way. Most of the mainstream media ignores the TPP angle (of course). The Los Angeles Times, for example, published an entire story about the protest without mentioning the TPP.
Monday, April 14, 2014
Today's Teamster News 04.14.14
Teamsters
Teamsters’ opposition to growler sales could stall Sunday booze bill Minnesota Public Radio ...Teamsters Union political director Ed Reynoso said the union started lobbying against Sunday growler sales after he learned a company that distributes alcohol and employs members of the union suggested the law would allow them to reopen their labor contracts because of it...
Keep the Carriage Horses (opinion) New York Times ...Let the carriages and the horses alone. Let this small business survive. Side with the drivers and do not add fleets of new cars, electric or not, into the streets and parks...
Darden gets sued over bylaw changes Orlando Sentinel ...A Teamsters fund that invests in Darden Restaurants stock has sued the company over recent changes to its bylaws. Darden last month added language allowing it to delay its annual shareholder meeting and making it tougher for unhappy investors to push for changes…
Trade
Vietnam Releases Dissidents Amid U.S. Trade Talks Time ...Vietnam has granted early release to two more high profile dissidents. The unusual moves come as the country is negotiating a free trade deal with the United States. Washington has said that it would be hard to get the deal past Congress unless Vietnam made some meaningful steps toward improving its human rights record...
US-Japan deadlock points to no April TPP deal for Obama Financial Times ...An impasse between the US and Japan over import tariffs means Barack Obama’s visit to Tokyo this month looks unlikely to yield the prize that some had hoped for: the key to uniting a dozen Pacific Rim economies in one trade zone...
State Battles
11 Missouri lawmakers in right-to-work spotlight Associated Press ...That's the number of Republicans who didn't vote last week when the chamber gave initial approval to a proposed ballot measure that would ask voters to prohibit union fees from being a condition of employment...
The War on Workers
You Know What Doesn’t Work So Well? Private Prisons Working America ...The myth put forth by private prison corporations like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group that private prisons are cheaper than public prisons is shattered by a new report from In the Public Interest, thus undercutting the primary rationale for prison privatization efforts across the country...
Pay for Performance? It Depends on the Measuring Stick New York Times ...The median compensation for C.E.O.s at the 100 largest companies that have filed so far was $13.9 million, according to the Equilar 100 C.E.O. Pay Study, conducted by Equilar, an executive compensation data firm. That’s up 9 percent from 2012...
Jamie Dimon to JPMorgan Shareholders: Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes Wall Street on Parade ...Out of total deposits of $1.3 trillion, Dimon says that a mere $19 billion of credit was extended to U.S. small businesses last year. And yet, that’s a key U.S. engine of job growth. In contrast, the bank “provided $274 billion of credit to consumers,” raising the concern that the weak job market and stagnating wages are forcing more households into deeper debt...
Charles Koch’s public message represents rhetorical spin at its flimsiest (opinion) Kansas City Star ...Koch’s analysis is that he and his brother ought to be free to run their vast pipeline, fossil-fuels and other businesses without restraint. What he declines to recognize is the idea that government can serve to protect citizens from the wanton, unregulated forces of corporate actions that spew toxic materials into our air and water, limit the economic power of American people and otherwise endanger our daily lives...
Miscellaneous
Google, once disdainful of lobbying, now a master of Washington influence Washington Post ...Google — once a lobbying weakling — has come to master a new method of operating in modern-day Washington, where spending on traditional lobbying is rivaled by other, less visible forms of influence. That system includes financing sympathetic research at universities and think tanks, investing in nonprofit advocacy groups across the political spectrum and funding pro-business coalitions cast as public-interest projects...
Teamsters’ opposition to growler sales could stall Sunday booze bill Minnesota Public Radio ...Teamsters Union political director Ed Reynoso said the union started lobbying against Sunday growler sales after he learned a company that distributes alcohol and employs members of the union suggested the law would allow them to reopen their labor contracts because of it...
Keep the Carriage Horses (opinion) New York Times ...Let the carriages and the horses alone. Let this small business survive. Side with the drivers and do not add fleets of new cars, electric or not, into the streets and parks...
Darden gets sued over bylaw changes Orlando Sentinel ...A Teamsters fund that invests in Darden Restaurants stock has sued the company over recent changes to its bylaws. Darden last month added language allowing it to delay its annual shareholder meeting and making it tougher for unhappy investors to push for changes…
Trade
Vietnam Releases Dissidents Amid U.S. Trade Talks Time ...Vietnam has granted early release to two more high profile dissidents. The unusual moves come as the country is negotiating a free trade deal with the United States. Washington has said that it would be hard to get the deal past Congress unless Vietnam made some meaningful steps toward improving its human rights record...
US-Japan deadlock points to no April TPP deal for Obama Financial Times ...An impasse between the US and Japan over import tariffs means Barack Obama’s visit to Tokyo this month looks unlikely to yield the prize that some had hoped for: the key to uniting a dozen Pacific Rim economies in one trade zone...
State Battles
11 Missouri lawmakers in right-to-work spotlight Associated Press ...That's the number of Republicans who didn't vote last week when the chamber gave initial approval to a proposed ballot measure that would ask voters to prohibit union fees from being a condition of employment...
The War on Workers
You Know What Doesn’t Work So Well? Private Prisons Working America ...The myth put forth by private prison corporations like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group that private prisons are cheaper than public prisons is shattered by a new report from In the Public Interest, thus undercutting the primary rationale for prison privatization efforts across the country...
Pay for Performance? It Depends on the Measuring Stick New York Times ...The median compensation for C.E.O.s at the 100 largest companies that have filed so far was $13.9 million, according to the Equilar 100 C.E.O. Pay Study, conducted by Equilar, an executive compensation data firm. That’s up 9 percent from 2012...
Jamie Dimon to JPMorgan Shareholders: Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes Wall Street on Parade ...Out of total deposits of $1.3 trillion, Dimon says that a mere $19 billion of credit was extended to U.S. small businesses last year. And yet, that’s a key U.S. engine of job growth. In contrast, the bank “provided $274 billion of credit to consumers,” raising the concern that the weak job market and stagnating wages are forcing more households into deeper debt...
Charles Koch’s public message represents rhetorical spin at its flimsiest (opinion) Kansas City Star ...Koch’s analysis is that he and his brother ought to be free to run their vast pipeline, fossil-fuels and other businesses without restraint. What he declines to recognize is the idea that government can serve to protect citizens from the wanton, unregulated forces of corporate actions that spew toxic materials into our air and water, limit the economic power of American people and otherwise endanger our daily lives...
Miscellaneous
Google, once disdainful of lobbying, now a master of Washington influence Washington Post ...Google — once a lobbying weakling — has come to master a new method of operating in modern-day Washington, where spending on traditional lobbying is rivaled by other, less visible forms of influence. That system includes financing sympathetic research at universities and think tanks, investing in nonprofit advocacy groups across the political spectrum and funding pro-business coalitions cast as public-interest projects...
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