Free Trade Agreements

The U.S. labor movement is telling the truth about the dire labor situation in Colombia, and it is opposing the Colombia FTA based upon its principled solidarity with its union brothers and sisters.

The important news for Pennsylvanians on Monday was that both candidates committed to a new direction on trade -- one that won't encourage further outsourcing of manufacturing jobs.

President Bush, and other politicians cannot continue hiding the fact that their main ally in Latin America is a government that is penetrated by terrorism and narcotrafficking.

At some point, when Sen. Clinton claims she was trying to defeat the Colombian free trade deal, Bill Clinton must have told her that he was planning on making some money to promote the deal.

The lawmakers who pretend to weep and cry at the atrocities in Tibet and Darfur maneuver to reward a Colombian government that helps commit human rights atrocities.

In selling Bush's free trade agreement , administration officials are blindly repeating Colombian claims that paramilitaries have demobilized and are a thing of the past.

The entire debate over the Colombia Free Trade Agreement is taking place as if Ronald Reagan were president and it was still "morning in America."

If we had been born in Colombia, we would probably be dead. That's right. As members of our respective labor unions, the fight for higher wages, better working conditions, and a secure pension could have cost us our lives.

The simple truth is that the opposition to the Colombian trade agreement -- from the Democratic presidential contenders to Nancy Pelosi -- has nothing to do with reality.

Hillary has made the entire NAFTA debate about an uncorroborated report from the right-wing Canadian government designed to embarrass Obama. Even more incredibly, the media followed right along.

Congress and the administration have the power to stop China's cheating and unfair trade practices, but so far, they have sat on their hands. What would a President Obama or a President Clinton do?

Most analysts expect America's lobbyist-written trade policies to take center stage in the Buckeye State -- a place hit hard by trade-related job losses and wage cuts.

As America's anxiety grows, the economy not only is becoming a preeminent issue of the election, but the candidates are responding to public anxiety about the current model of globalization.

Within 24 hours this week, two different consumer watchdog groups gave the American public completely contradictory information about home lead test kits.

The questions, especially the ones on the hot button immigration issues, were spot on and aimed at making some candidates uncomfortable.