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The Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition is a coalition of over 40 labor, family farm, interfaith, environmental and social justice organizations across the state of Minnesota. 

We engage with the Minnesota community, elected officials and media in order to advocate for the benefits of fair trade and explain why the current system of unregulated trade fueled by agreements such as WTO, NAFTA and CAFTA has favored the interests of a few multinational corporations instead of the interests of a majority of the world's people. 

MNFTC promotes the benefits of a fair trade system that, through the trading of goods and services, can achieve economic justice, support human and worker rights, promote healthy communities and protect the environment.  

Our Members:

  • Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 

  • American Federation of Television & Radio Artists-Twin Cities

  • AFSCME Council 5

  • AFSCME Local 34 

  • AFSCME Local 66 

  • AFSCME Local 744 

  • American Postal Workers Union St. Paul Local 

  • American Postal Workers Union Minneapolis Local 

  • BCTGM Local 167 

  • BCTGM Local 267G

  • BCTGM Local 369G 

  • Blue Green Alliance of MN

  • Communications Workers of America District 17 

  • Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body 

  • Laborers District Council of Minnesota and North Dakota

  • League of Rural Voters of Minnesota

  • Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Action

  • IBEW Local 242 

  • International Association of Machinists Airline Local 1833

  • North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters 

  • Minnesota AFL-CIO 

  • Minnesota Association of Professional Employees 

  • Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation

  • Minnesota Farmers Union 

  • Minnesota Teamsters Joint Council 32 

  • USW Local 662

  • SEIU Minnesota State Council 

  • Sierra Club North Star Chapter

  • South East Area Labor Council on behalf of the Goodhue/Wabasha Area Labor Assembly, Mankato Area Labor Assembly and Rochester Area Labor Assembly. 

  • South East Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers

  • St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly 

  • Trinity Lutheran Church  

  • United Auto Workers Minnesota State CAP Council

  • United Auto Workers Local 879

  • United Auto Workers Local 2025

  • United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789

  • UNITE-HERE Local 17 

  • UNITE-HERE  Local 21 

  • United Steelworkers District 11

  • University of MN - Labor Education Service

  • Witness for Peace Upper Midwest

  • Workers Interfaith Network

    • Contact Us:

    Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition 
    2511 Franklin Avenue East
    Minneapolis, Minnesota 55406 
     
    Phone: (651)214-6064       Email: jlettween@citizenstrade.org
     
     

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