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Baobab

(4,667 posts)
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 09:25 PM Mar 2016

[Acronym for plurilateral services agreement] versus public services - Canadian NGO clear writing on

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/tisa-versus-public-services



This is interesting. Hillary is mum on the global job trading schemes her husband signed in 1994 and the 51 country scheme being cooked up now.


In contrast, Bernie Sanders wants to RAISE THE WAGES of H1B workers, to make the program less prone to abuse.

The biggest problem is posed by the L1 visa program, visas mandated by trade treaties, such as WTO and TiSA above, which may not require any minimum wages at all, or which may push for the higher of the two countries minimum wages be paid to the nurses, teachers, IT and green energy pros it allows in temporarily to perform contract work, often under government procurement rules.

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