on October 14, 2015 in World News
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Foie Gras for Corporations, Dead Rats for Workers
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Foie Gras for Corporations, Dead Rats for Workers For American workers, the deal is not good. By Leo Gerard / AlterNet Some terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the 12-nation trade proposal completed last week, are so repulsive that the New Zealand trade minister who helped negotiate the scheme described accepting them as swallowing dead rats. Here’s what New Zealand Minister Tim Groser said: “On the hardest core issues, there are some ugly compromises out there. And when we say ugly, we mean ugly from each perspective – it doesn’t mean ‘I’ve got to swallow a dead rat… View Article
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