Senator Jesse Hamilton Urges Opposition to Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal

(Brooklyn, NY - August 24, 2015) Writing in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Friday, Senator Jesse Hamilton  highlights the dangers the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement poses to New Yorkers. Senator Hamilton points to the secrecy with which the agreement is being written and the prospect of lawsuits from corporations over laws and regulations as major reasons for opposing the deal.  Senator Hamilton also expresses deep concern at the prospect of labor, consumer, and environmental protections being eroded by the trade deal, concluding that "Brooklyn will suffer with the passage of TPP".