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To: London Borough of Haringey
Haringey Council to oppose TTIP
We, the residents to Haringey, call on Haringey Council to:
* Declare its opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership [TTIP] currently being negotiated by the European Union and the USA.
* Make its objections heard with Ministers, local MPs, the Local Government Association and the Greater London Assembly.
* Support the campaign to scrap it.
Why is this important?
TTIP will have a major impact on the lives of the people of Haringey.
* It represents a dangerous new step in the process of opening public services - including health and social welfare, housing, education and the environment - to unaccountable, private, corporations.
* It undermines the ability of local authorities to impose minimum standards of employment, training, quality, environmental protection, energy conservation, or health and safety.
* It ‘locks-in’ the current privatization programme and makes it extremely difficult for future local authorities to take back, ‘in house’, contracted out services.
