By Doug Cunningham

Labor and progressive groups are battling to stop CAFTA - the Central American Free Trade Agreement - in Congress. On this one labor has a fighting chance to stop CAFTA. Douglas Drake with the Steelworkers union District 2 in Wisconsin says working families on both sides of the border are hurt by these trade agreements because they're structured to enrich corporations at the expense of workers.

[Douglas Drake 1] : "Real wages in Mexico are less than they were at the time that NAFTA was instituted, so it has not achieved its goals of helping to increase and develop those economies to the point where they would start consuming more goods from the U.S. So both from the standpoint of workers here in the U.S. and workers in Mexico for instance these trade policies have not resulted in greater prosperity for working people in either case."

Bush needs all 85 of the currently undecided members of Congress in addition to convincing some no votes to vote yes to get to the 218 votes needed to pass CAFTA. Time is short, but Drake says the public can still weigh in against CAFTA.

[Drake 2] : "The only real focus of these trade agreements is protect big business and all other concerns of other people in society are ignored. "