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4. About time

Reply to Snarkoleptic (Original post)

Mon Sep 4, 2017, 12:52 AM

Sep 2017

Some of us have been waiting for those promised "side agreements" on labor rights and environmental regulations for 22 goddam years, as if workers and the environment are impediments to trade, instead of crucial considerations.

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Canada demands U.S. end right to work laws as part of NAFTA talks. [View all] Snarkoleptic Sep 2017 OP

THAT is not going to go ever so well with the filthy, ugly, cruel fascist oligarchs. pangaia Sep 2017 #1

beautiful BainsBane Sep 2017 #2

I wish ornotna Sep 2017 #3

About time gratuitous Sep 2017 #4

And... zentrum Sep 2017 #9

When sanity like this is spoken, it almost sounds like "The Onion", in our unfortunate Trump-era. Snarkoleptic Sep 2017 #5

kick and rec...n/t bluecollar2 Sep 2017 #6

Some states have Right-To-Work laws as part of their constitutions amb123 Sep 2017 #7

Well, then NAFTA will have to go... LeftInTX Sep 2017 #8

But...The Art of the Deal!! KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2017 #10

How fucked is it maxrandb Sep 2017 #11

Kick this huge story. Kingofalldems Sep 2017 #12