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McCain
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Anti-Sweatshop Bill
The Decent Working Conditions
and Fair Competition Act, S. 367
This Steelworker-driven legislation works to
ensure fair compeition and global worker rights by
stopping products that are made in sweatshops from
being sold on our shelves.
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Right
Cosponsored the bill.
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Wrong
Has not cosponsored the bill.
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Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Colombia has the most
murders of union members of any country around the
globe. This pending free trade agreement does
nothing to protect workers.
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Right
Opposes the agreement:
. . .the violence against unions in Colombia
would make a mockery of the very labor protections
that we have insisted be included in these kinds of
agreements.
Speech in Philadelphia on 4/2/08
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Wrong
Supports the agreement:
I strongly suppor t this vital trade pact and
urge my colleagues to support its swift passage.
McCain Press Release, 4/7/08
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Central America Free Trade Agreement
This NAFTA-style agreement
expanded anti-worker, anti-environment trade policy
to six additional countries.
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Right
Voted to oppose the agreement.
HR 3405, Roll Call Vote 209, 7/28/05
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Wrong
Voted to support the agreement.
HR 3405, Roll Call Vote 209, 7/28/05
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Approach to Trade |
When I am President, I will not sign another trade
agreement unless it has protections for our environment
and protections for American workers. . .we will end the
tax breaks for companies who ship our jobs overseas, and
we will give those breaks to companies who create good
jobs with decent wages right here in America.
Speech in Janesville, WI, 2/13/08 |
I'm the biggest free marketer
and free trader that you will ever see.
Comment during the Republican
Presidential Debate in Johnston, Iowa, 12/12/07
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UNITED
STEELWORKERS
