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Obama's friends call free-trade plan 'NAFTA on steroids'

By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON — President Obama has long relied on the seemingly unshakable support of organized labor.

But the fissures in that constituency are starting to show, perhaps no more clearly than in Obama’s peddling of the Trans Pacific Partnership, a so-called free-trade agreement the union movement calls “NAFTA on steroids.”

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More than 100 demonstrators, mostly from organized labor, rallied Saturday on the steps of the statehouse in Madison to protest the TPP, in negotiation between representatives from the United States and 11 other countries, mainly in Southeast Asia.

Labor asserts the partnership will further damage the United States’ working class by shipping more jobs overseas. Beyond the usual complaints with such “free-trade” agreements, critics contend the TPP isn’t free and has surprisingly little to do with trade.

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