Jobs And Free Trade

The Sheet Metal Workers support fair trade, not so-called "free trade." Due to faulty international trade programs like NAFTA and the Chinese PNTR, large multinationals are succeeding in pitting workers against each other in a global race to the very bottom. All future trade agreements must include real worker and environmental protections in order to stop the flow of American jobs to overseas labor markets offering cheap, exploitable labor. All current trade agreements must be reviewed in order to reclaim the worker and environmental protections that should be included in them. With a level playing field created by these protections, American workers can compete fairly against those from any nation around the world.