MUNZ General Secretary Joe Fleetwood says, "Big corporates from China have already indicated that want to get control of the supply chain, their plan is to buy up the mines, the agriculture, the land, the transport system, they have already tried to buy a port as they already own our shipping. ... We will become tenants in our own land."
The Maritime Union of New Zealand says the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) free trade deal is a threat to democracy in New Zealand.
Maritime Union General Secretary Joe Fleetwood says the current TPPA negotiations are a “thieves charter” that sell out workers and the environment to control by global corporate bosses.
Tangling New Zealand up in free trade deals means that global big business will have the right to sue the New Zealand people if they don’t get their way, says Mr Fleetwood.
“Let’s get it straight, free trade does not mean free people.”