Tell Congress that NAFTA’s replacement must benefit people and the planet, not corporate polluters!

For too long, trade deals have been written to benefit the powerful few at the expense of people and the environment. Trade deals like NAFTA give corporate polluters new power while undermining environmental and labor standards.

One NAFTA provision -- investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) -- empowers corporations to sue governments in private tribunals and demand payment of expected profits when communities succeed in rejecting environmentally destructive projects.

To make matters worse, NAFTA allows corporations to bypass our climate, air and water, and labor standards by offshoring production, jobs, and pollution to countries with lower standards. This race to the bottom harms communities throughout North America.

To prioritize working people and our planet, the deal to replace NAFTA must be negotiated openly, eliminate special rights for corporations, and include strong and enforceable protections for workers, our air and water, and our climate.

Tell your members of Congress that the deal to replace NAFTA must benefit people and the planet!

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NAFTA gives corporate polluters even more power, while undermining critical environmental and labor standards. We need to replace NAFTA with a deal that protects working people and our air, water, and climate.

That will require an overhaul of the current closed-door, corporate-dominated negotiating process, which is how we got NAFTA in the first place. Instead, NAFTA’s renegotiation should be transparent and led by public input.

Any deal to replace NAFTA must reverse the race to the bottom in environmental and labor standards by requiring each country to uphold fundamental international standards for the protection of workers, air and water, and our climate. A vote should not be held until these essential standards are actually met.

In addition, NAFTA’s special rights for corporate polluters -- including investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) -- must be eliminated. There is no reason that corporations should be able to bypass our courts and sue governments over our hard-fought protections in tribunals of corporate lawyers.

As one of my representatives in Congress, I ask you to please speak out on what must be included -- and excluded -- in the ongoing NAFTA renegotiation. With negotiators aiming to conclude talks in a matter of months, now is the time to make clear the priorities above.

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