Free Trade Agreements: Killing Jobs and Labor Rights

Displaced Colombian farmers on the road looking for work in the sugar cane fields of Cauca. A Free Trade Agreement will increase the number of farmers displaced by grain and agricultural dumping from the U.S.

Last week President Obama broke his campaign commitment and put three free trade agreements up for a vote in Congress. Business interests, ecstatic at the prospect, promise they’ll bring us jobs. Experience tells us, however, their promises are worthless.

Read about the false promises and consequences of bad free trade agreements here.

For more information:

• More articles and images by David Bacon
• “Illegal People — How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants”
• “The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border”