Labor Rights, Manufacturing and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
The following is an excerpt from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
According to the Department of Labor’s Aug. 2 jobs report, 12 million U.S. workers remain unemployed. In manufacturing and construction alone, 1.8 million people were out of work. Given that past trade agreements have had a deep and lasting impact on U.S. jobs, the officials negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) must focus on policies that create jobs, rather than destroy them.
