'NAFTA on Steroids': National Mexican Union Protests TPP

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With just days to go till it is signed, demonstrators say the trade agreement will be as bad as NAFTA.

Mexico’s National Workers Union along with rural and social movements have rejected the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP, as they believe it is a trade agreement negotiated without consulting the workers and added that the peasant class will be affected.

"We say no because it was negotiated without consulting us, but also because it will bring serious consequences for Mexico, United States, Chile, Canada and Peru," said leaders at a rally held Friday in the emblematic Zocalo square in Mexico City.

Demonstrators say the signing of the TPP will only benefit transnational corporations.

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