Thanks to all those of you that helped. Remember Jeb Bradley is a major supporter of free trade but this is not just about economics there are real people being exploited both americans and the countries these agreements are being made with.

Rick Maynard

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Rick Maynard

Oman Free Trade Agreement Set for House Vote

Please Act Now!

The House of Representatives appears set to vote on the Oman Free Trade Agreement on or before Thursday, July 20. The vote is going to be close. Please take action to defeat it now! Add your voice to the 416 organizations who sent a letter to Congress opposing this trade deal

OFTA is as bad as NAFTA and CAFTA, except where it is worse. It includes no meaningful enforcement for labor or environmental protection. The lack of labor protection is particularly significant in light of recent revelations of massive labor abuses – including widespread human trafficking – in Jordan since that country entered into a free trade agreement with the United States five years ago. OFTA would turn Oman into a sweatshop apparel export platform in the same way, and with Oman’s exceptionally sub-standard labor laws, similar severe abuses can be expected. Sweatshop conditions there mean more lost jobs here.

OFTA is worse than NAFTA and CAFTA in two ways. First, it restricts access to medicines for national health emergencies, such as HIV/AIDS, even more severely than CAFTA does.
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Additionally, it goes even further than NAFTA and CAFTA in explicitly giving foreign investors the right to challenge virtually any U.S. government decision about a federal contract, lease or concession agreement. Areas covered include natural resource contracts (including exploration, extraction, refining, transportation, distribution, or sale); services contracts (including power generation or distribution, water treatment or distribution, or telecommunication); and infrastructure projects (including construction of roads, bridges, canals, dams, or pipelines).

Under such rules, the United States would have had to pay Dubai Ports World millions of U.S. taxpayers’ dollars for cancelling that company’s contract to run U.S. ports.

Congress needs to hear that we do not want more bad trade deals! Please take action now!

And please forward this message widely.



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Rick Maynard