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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 the benefits of fair trade and explain why the current system of unregulated trade fueled by agreements such as WTO, NAFTA and CAFTA has a majority of the world's people in favor of the interests of multinational corporations. 

 

We believe that international trade should reflect the interests and values of the majority of the world's people rather than a few corporations. MNFTC promotes the benefits of a fair trade system which, 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 

  • Communications Workers of America District 17 

  • Duluth AFL-CIO Central 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

  • Lakes and Planes Regional Council of  Carpenters & Joiners 

  • Minnesota AFL-CIO 

  • Minnesota Association of Professional Employees 

  • Minneapolis Central Labor Council 

  • Minnesota Teamsters Joint Council 32 

  • Minnesota Farmers Union 

  • PACE Local 7-662

  • Red Wing Local AFL-CIO Council 

  • SEIU Minnesota State Council 

  • Sierra Club North Star Chapter

  • South East Central Labor Council 

  • South East Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers

  • St. Croix Valley Central Labor Council 

  • 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

  • UNITE-HERE Local 17 

  • UNITE-HERE  Local 21 

  • United Steelworkers District 11

  • Witness for Peace Upper Midwest

  • Workers Interfaith Network

    • Contact Us:

    Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition 
    2511 Franklin Avenue South
    Minneapolis, Minnesota 55406 
     
    Phone: (612) 578 - 8266        Email: aranney@citizenstrade.org 
     
     

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