Trade Justice Education Fund

The Trade Justice Education Fund (TJEF) is a new nonprofit that sponsors public education programs designed to expand awareness about the worker rights, environmental and climate, and public health implications of U.S. trade policy. 

TJEF is currently campaigning to secure an emergency waiver of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules that are standing in the way of increased global production of COVID-19 vaccines, test kits and treatments. Breaking pharmaceutical monopolies’ stranglehold over increased production of these life-saving goods is essential to ending the rise of dangerous COVID variants that are prolonging the pandemic everywhere — with particularly dire public health and economic consequences for communities of color both domestically and internationally. 

TJEF’s long-term mission is to increase public understanding of just, sustainable trade policy alternatives, as opposed to the business-as-usual neoliberalism and racist nationalism frames that are often presented as the scope of the trade policy debate. Other TJEF programs include campaigns on climate justice and on gig economy worker protections. 

With deep roots in the labor, environmental, family farm, faith and consumer movements, TJEF’s officers and directors together have decades of leadership experience in trade issue education.