Unions to make trade pacts an issue in 2016 campaigns
Unions plan to make lawmakers’ support for trade an issue in next year’s U.S. elections, the head of the country’s largest labor federation said on Tuesday. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said unions would keep a tally of how lawmakers vote on upcoming legislation allowing Congress to set negotiating objectives for trade deals in exchange for […]
A trade deal with a bonus for national security
U.S. officials hosted trade negotiators from 11 nations spanning Asia and the Americas in Hawaii to work toward completing what could be the most significant trade deal in a generation. Five years in the making, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would cover 40% of global gross domestic product and a third of world trade. Any such […]
