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Subject: [mobilize-globally] SF Labor Council Resolution endorses FTAA Protests
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[MLNews!*] !b_a_Act: SF Labor Council Resolution endorses
FTAA
Protests
Date:
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 12:21:43 EST
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Subject: SF Labor Council Resolution endorses FTAA Protests
Labor Resolution on FTAA passed at February 26, 2001 meeting of SF
central
labor council:
Whereas: A "Summit of the America's" of all Western Hemisphere
countries,
excluding Cuba, will convene April 18-22 in Quebec City, Quebec, to
further
negotiations on the Free Trade Area of the Americas,and
whereas; The FTAA would expand NAFTA throughout the Western
Hemisphere and incorporate selected trade rules from the World Trade
Organization(WTO) and the defeated Multilateral Agreement on
Investments(MAI), and
whereas; NAFTA, the WTO and the FTAA are "corporate rights
charters"; i.e.
secretive, undemocratic, unaccountable, supranational institutions
which act
against the public interest through deregulation and privatization and
impose the rights of corporations over the labor, health, safety,
consumer
and human rights of citizens (and their elected representatives and
institutions), and the environment; and
whereas, NAFTA has led to the loss of hundreds of thousands of U.S.
manufacturing jobs, increased exploitation of Mexican workers in the
maquiladoras (factories in Mexico, owned by US and other foreign
corporations), the impoverishment of small Mexican farmers who are
forced to
leave their farms for the slums of Mexico City or the perils of
immigration
northward; and
whereas;-"Fast Track" negotiating authority, if passed in the US
congress,
will allow the US President to push the FTAA through Congress with
limited
debate and no amendments, and
whereas; Protests are being planned, to coincide with the Summit of
the
Americas, in Quebec City, on the border at Tijuana/San Diego and the
border
between Washington and British Columbia, Therefore be it resolved that
the San Francisco Central Labor Council (SFCLC) urges all of its
affiliated
unions and members to join in the planning of and participate in the
protests against the FTAA ; and be it further resolved that
the SFCLC calls upon the California Federation of Labor to join in
active
opposition to Fast Track and FTAA and be it further resolved that
the SFCLC, contact local, state and federal legislators and ask
them to
join us in opposing Fast Track and the FTAA; and
be it finally resolved that; the SFCLC commit resources to the fight
against Fast Track and FTAA, make meeting space and phone-banking
available to union members who want to oppose the FTAA
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