Pennsylvania Fair Trade Coalition

working together for social and environmental justice in trade policy

The Pennsylvania Fair Trade Coalition (PAFTC) is a statewide coalition of labor, family farm, faith, environmental and student organizations whose mission is to work for socially, economically and environmentally just trade policies which promote a fair global economy and to oppose unjust, unsustainable trade policies.

We believe the NAFTA-WTO model of globalization has failed the U.S. and our trading partners. During the NAFTA-WTO era, we have seen one out of every four U.S. manufacturing jobs destroyed and real wages decline as income inequity has soared. Since 2000 Pennsylvania has lost over 200,000 manufacturing jobs.

According to a new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), 755,000 Pennsylvania jobs are "offshorable," while 286,000 Pennsylvania jobs are "highly offshorable." This translates into a combined 1,041,000 Pennsylvania jobs – or 18 percent of the state’s total workforce of 5.7 million – that are vulnerable to offshoring. ("Offshoring" is the term businesses coined to describe their practice of sending work now performed in the United States to other countries.)

 Current News:

Congressman Altmire Signs Opposition Pledge to Columbia Free Trade Agreement

http://www.usw.org/usw/program/content/4644.php

 Congressman Holden Signs Opposition Pledge to Columbia Free Trade Agreement

 http://www.usw.org/usw/program/content/4667.php

For more information, Contact our new director:
Amy McAuliffe
Office: (412) 408-3638
Fax: (412) 408-3629
amy@citizenstrade.org