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		<title>Speaking Out Against Unfair Trade</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/22/speaking-out-against-unfair-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chellie Pingree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congresswoman Chellie Pingree spoke out on the House floor today in opposition to free trade agreements with Panama, South Korea and Columbia that she says will send good paying American manufacturing jobs overseas. Pingree said over 30,000 Maine manufacturing jobs have disappeared since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was ratified. The trade agreements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico’s Mineros Leader Honored with Meany-Kirkland Award</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/17/mexico%e2%80%99s-mineros-leader-honored-with-meany-kirkland-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[international solidarity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leo W. Gerard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Mineros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meany-Kirkland]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Napoleon Gomez Urrutia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exiled Mexican mine workers union leader Napoleón Gómez Urrutia will be honored with the AFL-CIO’s 2011 George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award tonight at a ceremony at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says Gómez Urrutia is a ”truly courageous man who has shown us how difficult and how important it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Week of Walking Backwards</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/14/the-week-of-walking-backwards/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/14/the-week-of-walking-backwards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Jobs Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[currency manipulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosures]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade Agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a country where joblessness is a painful 9.1 percent. Where one in five children lives in poverty. Where foreclosures rose again last month. Where a whole movement—Occupy Wall Street -- is growing to protest the appeasement of the rich at the cost of the middle class. In that place, Congress chose to walk backwards last week. It didn’t take two steps forward – which it could have by passing the currency manipulation bill and American Jobs Act. No. It just took a giant step backward by embracing three job-killing trade agreements. It all provokes the question: Where are the jobs?]]></description>
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		<title>In Senate vote, a win for the middle class and a rebuke to China</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/03/in-senate-vote-a-win-for-the-middle-class-and-a-rebuke-to-china/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/03/in-senate-vote-a-win-for-the-middle-class-and-a-rebuke-to-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meyerson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unfair trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The news that our trade with China has been bad for the American middle class has finally reached the U.S. Senate. On Monday, the Senate will take up legislation that would impose tariffs on Chinese goods so long as China depresses the value of its currency. Despite the partisan polarization that grinds lawmaking to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Union Leaders: Gov&#8217;t Repression, Company Unions Oppress Nation&#8217;s Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/15/mexican-union-leaders-govt-repression-company-unions-oppress-nations-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/15/mexican-union-leaders-govt-repression-company-unions-oppress-nations-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leo W. Gerard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Mineros]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Napoleon Gomez Urrutia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vincente Fox]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11096</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (PAI) — Government repression, in aid of large companies and Mexican millionaires, and abetted by longtime “company unions,” oppresses the overwhelming majority of Mexican workers, three leaders of independent Mexican unions are telling U.S. lawmakers. And that repression harms U.S. workers, too. In a Sept. 13 Capitol Hill briefing led by the Steelworkers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Job-killing Korea Trade Deal: NAFTA with Korea</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/23/the-job-killing-korea-trade-deal-nafta-with-korea/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/23/the-job-killing-korea-trade-deal-nafta-with-korea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Trade Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[globalization]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To learn more and take action, visit http://bit.ly/bbysLq.]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8220;free&#8221; trade trumps U.S. law: The WTO finds American requirements for tuna labels too restrictive. That&#8217;s just the beginning.</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/27/when-free-trade-trumps-u-s-law-the-wto-finds-american-requirements-for-tuna-labels-too-restrictive-thats-just-the-beginning/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/27/when-free-trade-trumps-u-s-law-the-wto-finds-american-requirements-for-tuna-labels-too-restrictive-thats-just-the-beginning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 19:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unfair trade]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8916</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to "free" trade, Ralph Nader (among others) often makes a profound but taboo observation: "True free trade would take only one page for a trade agreement," he says before typically asking, "How come there are hundreds of pages and thousands of regulations" in these pacts?

The answer is that so-called free trade agreements (i.e., NAFTA, bilateral NAFTA replicas, the WTO regime, etc.) are free only of protections for human beings -- that is, free of provisions that preserve, say, labor rights, human rights and the environment. But those deals' "hundreds of pages" are chock-full of protectionist provisions for multinational companies -- provisions that, for example, allow foreign firms to sue governments for lost profits and empower international panels to unilaterally override a nation's domestic laws if those laws reduce corporate revenues.]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia FTA: Rewarding Promises Instead of Performance</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/12/colombia-fta-rewarding-promises-instead-of-performance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/12/colombia-fta-rewarding-promises-instead-of-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afro-Colombians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To get the FTA it wants, the Colombian government, like an addict, is willing to say anything. Wall Street banks and multi-national corporations in the United States are so addicted to free trade that they will believe any baseless promise, no actual performance required.]]></description>
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		<title>The Incredible Shrinking FTA Jobs Claim</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/27/the-incredible-shrinking-fta-jobs-claim/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/27/the-incredible-shrinking-fta-jobs-claim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andean and Panama FTAs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian FTAs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Travis McArthur Public Citizen Trade and Finance Researcher In Rep. Brady&#8217;s announcement of last week&#8217;s hearing on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), he said, &#8220;According to the President’s own statements, [the pending trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea] have the ability to create over 250,000 American jobs.&#8221; Speaker Boehner&#8217;s blog has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Beyond Sound-Bite Wars? Urge Daley and Sperling to Help Obama Lead – Like Clinton Did</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/10/getting-beyond-sound-bite-wars-urge-daley-and-sperling-to-help-obama-lead-%e2%80%93-like-clinton-did/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/10/getting-beyond-sound-bite-wars-urge-daley-and-sperling-to-help-obama-lead-%e2%80%93-like-clinton-did/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Roger Hickey Co-Director of the Campaign for America&#8217;s Future The terrible shootings in Arizona should make us all get beyond the sound-bite wars. Will the media let us? As soon as the story leaked that President Obama was about to appoint former aides to President Clinton, Bill Daley and Gene Sperling, to key positions [...]]]></description>
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