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Pacific Rim: TPP deal a threat to workers’ rights
Unions warn secretive trade pact hands power to bosses

TRADE unionists warned yesterday of the deleterious effect on workers’ rights and health from the Pacific trade pact set to be signed in New Zealand today.

Leaders of the 12 Pacific nations negotiating the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) will meet in the capital Auckland to sign the 5,000-page document — negotiated in secret over the past seven years.

Protests by trade unionists, environmentalists and consumer groups against the pact are planned worldwide.

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