{"id":4433,"date":"2015-06-09T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2015-06-09T16:45:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T15:45:46","slug":"vital-ttip-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=4433","title":{"rendered":"Update: TTIP vote postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE [09\/06, 16:23]: The European Parliament debate and vote over a TTIP resolution has been postponed due to more than 200 amendments being tabled. Campaigners have said this indicates that mounting public pressure against TTIP is paying off.\u00c2\u00a0 Stay tuned on UNITElive as the story develops.<\/p>\n

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New generation international trade deals, including TTIP, TPP, TiSA and CETA, are on a relentless march forward as secret negotiations continue and big business lobbies with all its influential might.<\/p>\n

 
\nBut opposition against these trade deals threatening public services and environmental and labour protections is mounting \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a citizens-led petition against TTIP has broken records, achieving 2m signatories in a matter of months<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The European Parliament was set to meet tomorrow (June 10) but will now debate the TTIP treaty and vote on a draft resolution and various amendments at a later date<\/p>\n

 
\nThe most important of these amendments strongly rejects Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) — provisions which enable large multinational companies to sue governments in secret courts if public services interfere with a corporation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s insatiable lust for profits.<\/p>\n

 
\nUnite assistant chief of staff Adrian Weir explained that although the planned vote is non-binding, it \u00e2\u20ac\u015bputs down a marker\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 and will demonstrate to the European Commission the size of the opposition to ISDS provisions and other aspects of the trade deal.<\/p>\n

 
\nKozmas Kota of the campaign group Stop TTIP agreed<\/a>, noting that even though a resolution might not have binding effects, \u00e2\u20ac\u015b\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it could set strong guidelines for the negotiators in the European Commission considering that in the end TTIP must be ratified in the EP through a Yes\/No vote.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

 
\nBut Weir warned that those taking a stand against TTIP must continue to put strong pressure against such trade deals if they want to have their voices heard above the deafening din of global corporate power.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bSuch is the global reach of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098new generation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 trade treaties that even with a success for the unions and social movements in the European Parliament multinational capital will still be in a strong position,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he noted.<\/p>\n

 
\nTUC general secretary Frances O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Grady wrote a letter to MEPs yesterday (June 8<\/a>), urging them to vote against ISDS and stand up for public services and labour standards.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is vital that the European Commission and EU member state governments hear the voice of European citizens through the European Parliament,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she noted.<\/p>\n

 
\nWeir lauded the TUC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clarion call but said the EP debate and vote on the resolution is only the beginning in the fight against race-to-the-bottom trade deals.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite supports the TUC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s call for MEPs to vote against ISDS in the European Parliamentary debate but recognises that this is but one part of a bigger fight for Unite policy to completely oppose TTIP and the other \u00e2\u20ac\u0098new generation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 trade treaties,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said.<\/p>\n

 
\nUnite calls on all citizens concerned about TTIP and new generation trade deals to join the 2m voices strong and sign the growing petition here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 
\nStay tuned on UNITElive as the new date for the now postponed debate is announced.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE [09\/06, 16:23]: The European Parliament debate and vote over a TTIP resolution has been postponed due to more than 200 amendments being tabled. Campaigners have said this indicates that mounting public pressure against TTIP is paying off.\u00c2\u00a0 Stay tuned on UNITElive as the story develops.     New generation international trade deals, including TTIP, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[59],"wps_subtitle":"MEPs must listen to 2m voices opposing trade deal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4445,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/4445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}