Workers to March Against Toxic Trade

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.

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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.

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Source: USW

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

Web site: http://www.steelworkers-usw.org/

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