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The Hartmann Report

THE BIGGEST TRADE VOTE THAT YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD ABOUT

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Director of Rethink Trade, American Economic Liberties Project, Lori Wallach reveals the biggest trade vote you’ve never heard about. Holey Moley! More inflation & shortages are coming from the Shanghai shutdowns. Labor organizer Daisy Pitkin reports that Starbucks workers are fighting one of the most intense union-busting campaigns in decades.

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This is the Tom Hartman program.

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And welcome back to our program on the line with us is our old buddy, Laurie Wallach,

0:50.7

the director of rethink trade. Well, part of the American Economic Liberties project,

0:55.8

rethinktrade.org is the website, or Twitter handle is Wallach,

1:00.6

LORI, W-A-L-L-A-C-H-L-O-R-I, or E-Con Liberties. And Laurie, welcome back to the program.

1:07.9

This biggest trade vote you've never heard about. Tell me about this.

1:12.9

So we just published a medium post that rethinktrades medium page, and it lays out how buried

1:22.1

in what's supposed to be these China competitiveness bills are a set of really crazy trade proposals

1:29.8

that could be very damaging on the Senate side. While the House version of the same bill actually

1:36.4

has some really great stuff, Tom, that you and I probably agree on is actually a new way to do

1:41.0

trade that could work for people in the planet. Very interesting. So lay out these differences

1:45.9

and where they originated. So the Senate side bill, let me just step back and say, the two bills,

1:54.4

which are right now going to what's called the conference committee, where they're supposed to be

1:57.8

reconciled. So this is still fixable. So folks don't get totally depressed, but we've got a lot of

2:02.1

work to do. So the Senate side bill and the House bill have the same guts, which is it's money to

2:10.2

try and reestablish domestic manufacturing of microchips and to try and invest in advanced research

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