Cohen to Discuss TPP, TPA on The Ed Show Tomorrow

CWA President Larry Cohen will again be on the air discussing our continuing opposition to new trade deals certain to have the same outcome.

Top officials of 12 nations are meeting now in Indonesia to work out what they consider the last remaining issues of the Trans Pacific Partnership. Cohen said, "The consequences of 20 years of trade deals through the last 3 presidents have been awful for American working families. Decent paying manufacturing jobs with union wages have been gutted. In the past 10 years we have seen hundreds of thousands of call center, IT and other service sector jobs head for Asia as well. For CWAers in those occupations the consequences in the U.S. are equally bad as costs here get benchmarked against costs in the Philippines, Bangladesh and Vietnam. Trade Promotion Authority or Fast Track must be fixed or more bad deals are inevitable. It is ironic that Fast Track means the bad deals must get an up or down vote in the Senate and House but the Senate cannot take up any of the issues that we care about without 60 votes."

CWAers and our allies from environmental, farm, labor and other groups are mobilizing across the nation.

Catch The Ed Show on MSNBC from 5 to 7 p.m. ET.