Posted on: April 1, 2009 @ 16:20
Without Low Wages, There Wouldn’t Be Any Free Trade!
That’s what Colombian Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo came to tell us last week at a meeting to denounce the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. And he’s right! All of these agreements are based on unfair trade between industrialized nations and other countries.
This economic truth is the reason why CUPW has opposed free trade since the early 1980s. We opposed the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and all bilateral agreements initiated by Canada. All of these agreements are used by multinationals to establish themselves in developed countries to steal their natural resources and directly exploit their workers.
Finally, experts recognize that “The problem today is with having high-wage countries compete with low-wage countries with no safety net. » (Le Devoir , March 29, 2009)
If we want to build another world that meets the expectations and hopes of the working class, civil society and all of their allies, we have to continue fighting against all neoliberal trade agreements.
That’s why we need to stop the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
Another world is possible and we’re building it.
