On Wednesday, May 27th workers across Georgia will show up and speak out in a unified voice against behind closed doors, corporate driven trade deals and "fast track" authority.

Workers across Georgia are standing up for higher wages but Congress is considering legislation that will speed through corporate-driven trade deals. For decades, we’ve seen how fast-tracked trade deals devastated our communities through lost jobs and eroded public services. Georgia can’t afford another bad deal that lowers wages and outsources jobs. That’s why Congress must reject Fast Track and maintain its constitutional authority and leverage to improve the TPP and other trade deals.

Trade deals have wide-ranging impacts and shouldn't be negotiated behind closed doors and then rubber-stamped. The current Trans-Pacific Partnership deal under discussion would cover 40 percent of the world’s GDP. In Georgia, the trade deficit is already $44 billion [Source: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/state/data/index.html]. 

We can’t afford another bad trade deal.