>PLEASE TAKE ACTION! >Save Jobs. Stop CAFTA. > >We still >have time to STOP CAFTA. >Under "Fast Track" rules the U.S. House must vote on CAFTA >before July 28. > ><http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/CAFTA_House/ss35n544765635?> >[] > >Contact your member of Congress now and urge them to vote down NAFTA's >twin brotherCAFTA. > ><http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/CAFTA_House/ss35n544765635?> >[] > >(<http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/CAFTA_House/ss35n544765635?>Click here.) >Thanks for all that you do for working families. >Last week the U.S. Senate approved CAFTAthe Dominican Republic-Central >America Free Trade Agreementby a very slim margin. Under Fast Track >rules, the U.S. House must vote on the flawed trade deal before July 28. >WE STILL HAVE TIME TO STOP CAFTAbut not much time. Please take a minute >right now to urge your U.S. representative to vote CAFTA down. Click on >the link below, or keep reading: > ><http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/CAFTA_House/ss35n544765635?> >[] > >The Senate vote came just days after a news bombshell from The Associated >Press: The Bush Labor Department has kept secret several reports showing >CAFTA countries fail to protect workers' rights. >"In practice, labor laws on the books in Central America are not >sufficient to deter employers from violations, as actual sanctions for >violations of the law are weak or nonexistent," wrote the International >Labor Rights Fund, which compiled the reports. >The Labor Department, which paid more than $700,000 for the study, made >the International Labor Rights Fund remove the reports from its website, >ordered it to retrieve paper copies before they became public, banned >release of new information from the reports and told the contractor it >couldn't discuss the studies with outsiders. >Like NAFTA, CAFTA does not including meaningful protections of workers' >rightsbut giving trade breaks to countries that violate workers' rights >is a top Bush administration priority. The big winners from this deal are >the corporations who profit from moving our jobs offshore while taking >advantage of Central American workers whose rights are trampled. >Urge your U.S. representative to stop CAFTA by clicking on the link >belowor keep reading. > ><http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/WpqIlpK1eq51/>http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/CAFTA_House > > >If you want to know what CAFTA would be like, just look at our experience >with NAFTA. NAFTA supporters promised it would help our economy and reduce >poverty and inequality in Mexico. Instead, we lost nearly a million U.S. >jobs and Mexican workers earn less in real terms than they did before NAFTA. >CAFTA is more of the sameanother flawed trade deal that will sell out >America's jobs and do nothing to pull people out of poverty in Central >America and the Dominican Republic. >In fact, CAFTA is the Wal-Mart of trade deals. It gives big, multinational >corporations all the breaks while forsaking good jobs, workers' rights and >decent wages. >Please act now. Demand that your U.S. representative stop CAFTA now. Click >on the link below: > ><http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/WpqIlpK1eq51/>http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/CAFTA_House > > >Thank you for working for working familiesand for good jobs. >In solidarity, >Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO >July 5, 2005 > >P.S. Please forward this e-mail to your co-workers, friends and family and >ask them to take action. > ><http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/WdqIlpK13PbC/> >[] > >Tell your friends and co-workers to help save jobs by taking action to >stop CAFTA. Invite them to be part of this important campaign. ><http://www.unionvoice.org/join-forward.html?domain=wfean&r=a1qIlpK1xugX> >[] ><http://www.unionvoice.org/join-forward.html?domain=wfean&r=a1qIlpK1xugX> >Tell-a-friend! >If you received this message from a friend, you can ><http://www.unionvoice.org/wfean/join.html?r=a1qIlpK1xugXE>sign up for >Working Families e-Activist Network. >If you would like to unsubscribe from the e-Activist Network, or update >your account settings, please visit your ><http://www.unionvoice.org/wfean/smp.tcl?nkey=ss35n544765635&;>subscription >management page. ><http://www.unionvoice.org/> >[] > >
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