Stop Fast Track
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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Under intense pressure from the labor movement and the progressive community, the Senate voted 52 to 45 to block debate on Fast Track legislation that would have forbidden Congress from making amendments to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. BCTGM International President David Durkee urges union members to continue to put pressure on their members of Congress. "This is far from over. There is nothing pro-trade legislators and corporate lobbyists won't do to force this job-killing deal through Congress....

13 May, 2015

We canโ€™t afford to pass fast track legislation, which would pave the way for a bad trade deal that lowers wages and outsources jobs. For decades, weโ€™ve seen how fast-tracked trade deals have devastated our communities through lost jobs and eroded public services. Weย need a new model for trade that raises wages, addresses currency cheating, and doesnโ€™t prioritize corporate profits over protecting working people. ย Thatโ€™s why Congress must reject Fast Track and maintain its leverage and its...

12 May, 2015

"Fast Track isn't a video game, a motor speedway or the official name of the high-speed rail project in California. In fact, "Fast Track" does not refer to anything swag at all โ€” it's a term that refers to international trade policy โ€”ย and a very lame policy at that. Check out these few reasons why "Fast Track" is terrible for working people in this BuzzFeed Post from the AFL-CIO.ย    1.ย โ€˜Fast Trackโ€™ is Old School Viaย flapjackstate.com   And not in...

12 May, 2015

The BCTGM knows firsthand the hardship that results when multinational corporations, Wall Street and their political allies in Washington, D.C. team up to enact โ€œfree tradeโ€ agreements. In the last 20 years, many thousands of BCTGM members have lost their good, middle-class jobs because the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has made it easy and profitable for companies like Nabisco, Hershey and Kellogg to close plants in the U.S. and Canada and move production...

17 April, 2015

The record is clear, convincing and indisputable. For more than two decades, โ€œfree tradeโ€ agreements have had a disastrous impact on American and Canadian working families and devastated communities throughout North America. The BCTGM and our members know firsthand the hardship that results when multinational corporations, Wall Street and their political allies in Washington, D.C. team up to enact โ€œfree tradeโ€ agreements. In the last 20 years, many thousands of our BCTGM Brothers and Sisters have...

12 March, 2015

The BCTGM is among 60 unions within and outside of the AFL-CIO that collectively signed a letter to Congress expressing opposition to Fast Track authority, which is used to advance unfair trade deals. The letter, which can be viewed byย clicking here, demonstrates the unity between workers who have jobs that are directly impacted by bad trade deals, and those whose jobs are indirectly affected. "The BCTGM and our members know firsthand the hardship that results when multinational...

03 March, 2015

Republican leaders in Congress and the Obama Administration have declared that trade is a potential area of compromise this year and working people should be concerned. ย New trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are being negotiated in the same failed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) model. The negotiations are focused on padding corporate profits not increasing workersโ€™ paychecks. Before any trade deal comes to a vote, the administration will ask Congress to pass...

26 February, 2015

The BCTGM is part of a network of organizations joining together in opposition of the Camp-Baucus Fast Track legislation, โ€œThe Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Actโ€ (HR 3830/S 1900). This legislation would revive the outdated and unsound 2002 โ€œFast Trackโ€ Trade Promotion Authority mechanism. The BCTGM International Union is among the 564 organizations to sign a letter delivered to Congress yesterday. January 31 is the TPP DAY OF ACTION with rallies planned in more than 40 cities across...

28 January, 2014