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Free trade harms employees for the benefits of a couple of the senior team. If you live in the USA and have their protections and costs of that, then you are allowed to fire americans and hire cheap labor that hurts your own country?
Tariffs control it.[1] 'Winners' and 'losers' are euphemisms for millionaires and homeless. It seems reasonable that a government should care about people who elected it, and that is should protect people from foreign competition which could cause such destruction of lives. After all, maybe foreign government subsidized production of its people's products and now they are in an unfair advantage over our people's products. Globalization is not someone's political agenda. It is a technological revolution that is fundamentally changing the world's economy, producing winners and losers along the way. The question is not whether we can stop it, but how we respond to it. It's not whether we should protect our workers from competition, but what we can do to fully enable them to compete against workers all over the world. All the destructive phenomena which unlimited competition gives rise to within one country are reproduced in more gigantic proportions on the world market. [2] Free trade is based on assumption that governmental tariffs and subsidies are ultimately not in the best interests of either side in a trade agreement. Is free trade generally beneficial for a country? Free trade is a system that allows trade across national boundaries without interference from the governments. What is free trade?
The talk about labor mobility in free market doesn't mean the right of people to move anywhere they want, as has been required by free market theory ever since Adam Smith, but rather the right to fire employees at will. And, under the current investor-based version of globalization, capital and corporations must be free to move, but not people, because their rights are secondary, incidental.