Tapsearch Com EditorNAFTA and Free Trade Merry go Round (LINK)
March 24th 2008 23:18
Bizarre Politics Reports:
What NAFTA is all about
Back to the Future - 1998 to 2008 - Public Workers take over union membership while Private Sector industrial workers still get the blame.
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008
From: "Economy In Crisis" <editor@economyincrisis.org>
To: tapsearch@fastmail.net
Subject: The Truth About Nafta
The Truth About Nafta
And Its Disastrous Effects
Few are aware that NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) has rendered us uncompetitive in the world, has destroyed our industrial base, caused us to outsource most of our production, and killed most of our manufacturing jobs.
For political reasons, Clinton, Obama, and McCain have not discussed this true picture.
Imagine if Congress enacted a special law only for the state of Michigan that:
Dropped the minimum wage to $.50/Hour
Exempted employers from child labor laws
Expanded the work week
Reduced health and work place safety laws
Banned unions
Allowed Michigan exporters full, duty-free access to Ohio and the rest of the states
Sounds crazy, huh?
This is what NAFTA did for Mexico, to the detriment of Ohio and all of America.
Why would any company manufacture in the U.S. now when it can produce next-door in Mexico with all these unfair advantages?
Mexico now ships more cars to us than we ship to the rest of the
world--and where did Mexico get an auto industry?
We are now increasingly forced to live on imports and debt at every level while thousands of our best companies are being sold to foreign interests and our industrial infrastructure is collapsing. If you are concerned for a future for your kids, you should demand that we do something about these conditions. Look at www.EconomyInCrisis.Org for all the statistics to confirm the damages that are now being inflicted on our economy.
Now let's go back to 1998 when Free Trade attacked the auto industry in Flint Michigan. This is only one story with many more like it across the USA.
Flint Michigan experienced the lost of 45,000 manufacturing jobs in their city alone. Union membership in the USA fell from 1.5 million to 770,000 by 1998. The New York Times reported on labor abuses at an American-owned auto plant near Mexico City. Employees were not allowed to see the contract which sets their wages at roughly $5 an hour. GM's Delphi Auto Parts Division became the largest private employe in Mexico.
GM announced plans to open a truck factory in China and there are plans for assembly plants in Argentina, Brazil, Poland and Thailand. NAFTA tenacles were fanning out across the globe.
In a former major industrial city like Cleveland, the top five employers took over. They are all related to government jobs in the public sector. While many still complained about unions, the private sector industrial workers became just minor faction in the AFL-CIO with public government workers compromising close to 50 percent of the membership. Not much was reported about this back then and no one seems to care inspite of the fact these jobs depend on private sector jobs and companies paying taxes to support the public sector.
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008
From: "Economy In Crisis" <editor@economyincrisis.org>
To: tapsearch@fastmail.net
Subject: The Truth About Nafta
The Truth About Nafta
And Its Disastrous Effects
Few are aware that NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) has rendered us uncompetitive in the world, has destroyed our industrial base, caused us to outsource most of our production, and killed most of our manufacturing jobs.
For political reasons, Clinton, Obama, and McCain have not discussed this true picture.
Imagine if Congress enacted a special law only for the state of Michigan that:
Dropped the minimum wage to $.50/Hour
Exempted employers from child labor laws
Expanded the work week
Reduced health and work place safety laws
Banned unions
Allowed Michigan exporters full, duty-free access to Ohio and the rest of the states
Sounds crazy, huh?
This is what NAFTA did for Mexico, to the detriment of Ohio and all of America.
Why would any company manufacture in the U.S. now when it can produce next-door in Mexico with all these unfair advantages?
Mexico now ships more cars to us than we ship to the rest of the
world--and where did Mexico get an auto industry?
We are now increasingly forced to live on imports and debt at every level while thousands of our best companies are being sold to foreign interests and our industrial infrastructure is collapsing. If you are concerned for a future for your kids, you should demand that we do something about these conditions. Look at www.EconomyInCrisis.Org for all the statistics to confirm the damages that are now being inflicted on our economy.
Now let's go back to 1998 when Free Trade attacked the auto industry in Flint Michigan. This is only one story with many more like it across the USA.
Flint Michigan experienced the lost of 45,000 manufacturing jobs in their city alone. Union membership in the USA fell from 1.5 million to 770,000 by 1998. The New York Times reported on labor abuses at an American-owned auto plant near Mexico City. Employees were not allowed to see the contract which sets their wages at roughly $5 an hour. GM's Delphi Auto Parts Division became the largest private employe in Mexico.
GM announced plans to open a truck factory in China and there are plans for assembly plants in Argentina, Brazil, Poland and Thailand. NAFTA tenacles were fanning out across the globe.
In a former major industrial city like Cleveland, the top five employers took over. They are all related to government jobs in the public sector. While many still complained about unions, the private sector industrial workers became just minor faction in the AFL-CIO with public government workers compromising close to 50 percent of the membership. Not much was reported about this back then and no one seems to care inspite of the fact these jobs depend on private sector jobs and companies paying taxes to support the public sector.
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