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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">FYI & USE/gary/usw<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">><a href="mailto:ghubbard@usw.org">ghubbard@usw.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="673" height="127" id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.png@01D0A3A1.FC4273E0"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">June 10, 2015<b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">CONTACTS:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gary Hubbard, 202-256-8125,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="mailto:ghubbard@usw.org"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ghubbard@usw.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Roy Houseman, 202-778-4384,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="mailto:rhouseman@usw.org"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">rhouseman@usw.org</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">USW: A Vote to Improve Trade Law
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Does Not Justify a Vote for Fast Track<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">PITTSBURGH (Jun. 10) -- United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard released the following statement today in anticipation of trade bill votes by the
U.S. House that include fast track trade negotiating authority.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“As the potential vote on fast track trade authority approaches, proponents are engaging in last-ditch vote selling, vote trading and outright dishonesty. Proponents
are doing everything they can to try and distract attention away from the devastating impact today’s trade policies have had on working people across this great country. The fast track bill will only fuel more of the same.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“There’s a reason the Obama Administration has not made the trade deal public. At this point, it is far from the type of agreement that will make a positive difference
in the lives of working people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“The USW for years has urged that our trade laws be updated to deal with dumping and subsidies of imports. Unfortunately, the USW has often had to bring cases against
unfair trade because many of our companies refuse to act and, worse, Administrations – both Republican and Democratic – have failed to use their power to initiate cases.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Changes in our trade laws are needed. The USW supports those changes, but any Member of Congress who thinks a vote for improving our trade laws will offset a “yes” vote
on fast track, will hear a different message from their constituents at election time. These are separate and distinct issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“The bill that would have leveled the playing field for American workers is now becoming the repository for every possible ‘fix’ to Fast Track to ensure that Trade Promotion
Authority (TPA) passes the House as quickly as possible. The USW wholeheartedly supported the trade law provisions in the Senate-passed Customs Reauthorization bill, as well as the provisions on currency manipulation that would have allowed industry and workers
to fight back in a meaningful way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">‘In addition, we support the provisions on human trafficking. However, the current list of potential additions to the House bill calls our continued support into question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Since NAFTA, workers across this country have called for a new approach to trade that will help foster job creation with good wages. We seek to reverse the tide of unacceptably
high, growth-sapping trade deficits that will help reduce rising income inequality.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Rejecting fast track will send the signal that the
<i><u>status</u></i><u> <i>quo</i></u> is no longer acceptable. Nothing currently being discussed by political leaders as alternatives, or additions to fast track will be satisfactory. American workers deserve better.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The USW represents 850,000 workers in North America employed among industries that include metals, rubber, chemicals, paper, oil refining, plus the service and public
sectors. For more information: </span></i><a href="http://www.usw.org"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://www.usw.org</span></i></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">/.</span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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