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Workers to March Against Toxic Trade

Tue May 27, 2008 8:57pm EDT
McBush Trade Deals Blamed for Job Loss, Unsafe Products

CLEVELAND, May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Members of the United
Steelworkers (USW) and allied community organizations will march along
downtown Cleveland streets on Wednesday, May 28 and stage a street theater
performance with a 15-foot-tall "Toxic Trader" puppet.
    (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO )
    It is the union's latest effort to draw attention to "toxic" free trade
agreements that threaten food and product safety and North American jobs.
    "The McBush toxic trade policies are bringing us unsafe medicines, tainted
toys and dangerous auto parts," said USW member Beth Powell. "And these same
policies have cost us more than 240,000 manufacturing jobs that have
disappeared from Ohio since the year 2000."
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    WHO:         USW members and supporters.

    WHAT:        Union workers march and street theater.

    WHEN:        9:30 AM, Wednesday, May 28, 2008.

    WHERE:       March starts from United Church of Christ, 700 Prospect Ave.,
                 Cleveland.

SOURCE  USW

Rachel Steury, +1-803-322-5032 (mobile), for USW



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