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A Glimpse Into the Future of NAFTA-Style Korea Free Trade (Don Farrall/Getty Images)
US Chamber Watch, an advocacy group originally launched by the Change to Win labor federation, issued a statement blasting the supporters of the NAFTA-style Korea Free Trade agreement as “outsourcers all.” From a statement released by US Chamber Watch spokeswoman Christy Setzer:
“It’s crystal clear why the US Chamber is supporting a deal effectively shipping over 150,000 American jobs overseas: As the nation’s chief cheerleader for outsourcing, the Chamber gets to go to bat for its top corporate members (the CEOs of JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Boeing and GE, Chamber members and outsourcers all, immediately issued statements in support of the agreement) and gets a jump-start on one of its key goals for 2011: tax breaks for outsourcers. Chamber President Tom Donohue has said that the Chamber ‘will do everything in [their] power to round up the votes’ for the Korea trade agreement. We only wish they were nearly so enthusiastic about protecting the jobs we have at home.”
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But Obama got 800 jobs for the UAW, so we would just bury the 150,000 jobs lost. Obama as always is the Farce Advocate.
Why am I not surprised?
Yep, they have it right…. “Outsourcers All”.
Given the way they behave, the US Chamber of Commerce should be renamed the International Chamber of Outsourcing.
If Sherrod Brown was (and others) a real democrat, he would run as an Independent against obama in 2012, not just give lip service to his constituents.
How many major US corporations are there who are not outsourcers? I thought by now it was a standard technique. And it’s not even so much to get a better deal overseas, really; it’s more about improving the corporation’s bargaining position with its domestic workers. They want their American workers to be so demoralized and intimidated by the prospect of having their jobs shipped overseas that they’ll accept whatever miserable pittance they’re given.