AGAINST FAST TRACK AND QUESTIONING THE T-TIP

The following U.S. organizations are asking Congress to replace the Fast Track procedures (Under the Fast Track procedure, Congress takes a vote on a trade agreement without a chance to debate or amend the agreement)  and create a new trade negotiating and approval process that would help deliver trade agreements that could benefit workers, communities, and the environment and, therefore, rebuild broad support for trade agreements. They argue that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP), extend far beyond traditional trade issues such as tariffs and that it would establish binding rules on issues related to labour rights, energy and the environment, medicine pricing, patents and copyright, food and product safety, Internet freedom and innovation, government procurement, financial regulation, immigration, healthcare, and more and that it will focus mainly on eliminating so-called “non-tariff” or “technical” barriers to trade—namely behind-the-border domestic regulatory policies.

National Organizations:

• 350.org
• ActionAid USA
• Alliance for Democracy
• Alliance for Retired Americans
• Amazon Watch
• American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
• American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
• American Federation of Teachers
• American Friends Service Committee
• American Medical Student Association (AMSA)
• American Medical Student Association ‒ Just Medicine Campaign
• Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
• Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA)
• Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers
• Backbone Campaign
• Black Alliance for Just Immigration
• BlueGreen Alliance
• Breast Cancer Action
• Center for Biological Diversity
• Center for Effective Government
• Center for Food Safety
• Center for International Environmental Law
• Citizens Trade Campaign
• Colombia Support Network
• Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach
• Common Cause
• Communications Workers of America
• Conference of Major Superiors of Men
• Consumer Federation of America
• Corporate Accountability International
• Cultural Survival
• Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
• Domestic Fair Trade Association
• Earthjustice
• Economic Policy Institute
• Environmental Investigation Agency
• Ethix Ventures Inc.
• Fair World Project
• Family Farm Defenders
• Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance
• Fight for the Future
• Food & Water Watch
• Food Chain Workers Alliance
• Food Empowerment Project
• Free Speech for People
• Friends of the Earth, US
• Global Exchange
• GMO Free USA
• Gray Panthers
• Green America
• Greenpeace
• Health Alliance International
• Health Care without Harm
• Health GAP (Global Access Project)
• Holy Cross International Justice Office
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
• Institute for Policy Studies, Global Economy Project
• International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
• International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
• International Brotherhood of Teamsters
• International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers (IFPTE)
• International Labor Rights Forum
• International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
• International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
• IUE-CWA, Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America
• Jobs With Justice
• Just Foreign Policy
• Justice Party
• Labor Network for Sustainability
• League of Conservation Voters
• Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network
• Medical Mission Sisters Alliance for Justice
• Moana Nui
• Move To Amend
• MoveOn.Org
• NAACP
• National Black Rank and File Exchange
• National Family Farm Coalition
• National Hmong American Farmers, Inc
• National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association
• National Nurses Organizing Committee / National Nurses United
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
• New Rules for Global Finance
• Nicaragua Center for Community Action
• Oil Change International
• OpenMedia International
• People for the American Way
• Physicians for a National Health Program
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Popular Resistance
• Presbyterian Church USA
• Progressive Democrats of America
• Public Citizen
• Quaker Earthcare Witness
• RootsAction.org
• School of the Americas Watch
• Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
• Sierra Club
• Sisters of Mercy of the Americas - Institute Justice Team
• Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA)
• Sr. of Charity of Nazareth Western Province Leadership
• SumOfUs.org
• Task Force on the Americas
• The Episcopal Network for Economic Justice
• The Rachel Carson Council, Inc.
• Unitarian Universalist Global AIDS Coalition
• UNITE HERE
• United Brotherhood of Carpenters
• United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries
• United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)
• United Mineworkers of America
• United Steelworkers
• United Students Against Sweatshops
• United Students for Fair Trade
• Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
• WarIsACrime.org
• Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC)
• Women's Voices for the Earth
• Worldview