'We’re tired of losing jobs. We’re tired of trade agreements that end up with net job loss. Our members our fed up with this. The public is fed up with this.”
'The politicians keep telling us the same song and dance that turns out not to be the truth. We’ve lost five million manufacturing jobs. The public gets it, and the politicians don’t.'
Leo W. Gerard, president of the
United Steelworkers union (USWA),
on the failure of the 12 governments
working on the Trans-Pacific
Partnership to come up with a pact.
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