Why Are We Rewarding Wall Street--Again?

Labor, fair trade, environmental and community activists marching in a protest against the TPP.

Wall Street's greedy tentacles are reaching into international trade deals.

Its lobbyists have creeped into negotiations for both the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). And they're writing language into the agreements that would give big banks new powers to sue national governments and sidestep Dodd-Frank regulation.

"As working families slowly recover from lost jobs and slashed wages of the Great Recession, bankers are being rewarded yet again with the ability to challenge common-sense Wall Street regulations that were supposed to protect the Americans from future crises," CWA President Chris Shelton blogs on Medium. 

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