Labor and environmental groups are asking for a seat in the "room where it happens" as government trade representatives gather today in Los Angeles to begin negotiations on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. The framework is a massive trade deal between states on the Pacific Rim which would govern an estimated 40% of the global economy and affect people's jobs, wages, digital privacy, climate change and more. Will Wiltschko, director of the California Trade Justice Coalition, said the public has the right to know what measures are being proposed in the negotiators. ...