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Unions warn that trade deal would harm healthcare
Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike
NEW ZEALAND trade unions warned yesterday that a secretive trade deal would raise healthcare costs for workers.
Negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership have hit crunch point, with extended talks in Hawaii scheduled for the end of the month.
They are being conducted at the highest level of government and in such secrecy that the text of any agreement will not be disclosed until four years after its signing.
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Global South governments’ sovereignty and ability to decide future economic policy are severely compromised by signing free trade agreements, whose terms are heavily weighted in favour of the already wealthy countries of the global North, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG
