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Workers and the Free Trade Area of America
In the early 1990s, the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United States, Canada and Mexico was a subject of heated debate. ... Now, nearly 10 years after NAFTA took effect, few of the promised gains for workers have materialized. ... trade deficit with Canada and Mexico is almost 10 times bigger than it was before NAFTA, American workers have lost hundreds of thousands of jobs and real wages in Mexico have fallen, while poverty is up.
Despite NAFTA’s failure, the Bush administration is working with governments from around the hemisphere to expand NAFTA to 34 countries instead of just three. ... As a result, the draft agreement looks almost exactly like NAFTA. ...
The FTAA will be as NAFTA is today only on a much larger scale. ...
There are many good reasons for workers to oppose NAFTA and FTAA:
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The United States has lost more than three quarters of a million actual and potential jobs under NAFTA. Employers have used the threat of moving jobs under NAFTA to keep unions out and hold down wages.
Approximate Word count = 876
Approximate Pages = 3.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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