North Carolina Autoworkers Protesting NAFTA

[Phred42]

North Carolina Autoworkers Protesting NAFTA
http://www.economyincrisis.org/articles/show/2829


"NAFTA has done more damage to the United States of America than any terrorist group ever could."

A group of North Carolina autoworkers are the latest victims of the North American Free Trade Agreement and are taking to the streets to express their displeasure.

According to The Gaston Gazette, two Anti-NAFTA protests have taken place in the past two months after hundreds of autoworkers have had their jobs outsourced to plants in Mexico where labor is cheap and environmental standards are nonexistent.

"We're losing manufacturing jobs. We've lost textile jobs - now that's all gone to China," Troy Friday, a representative of the United Auto Workers Local 5286 in Gastonia told The Gaston Gazette. "We feel like NAFTA and other trade treaties are hurting the American workers."

[OhioChick]

1. Good for them!

:thumbsup:

[MedleyMisty]

2. When I was in my early teens

Jesse Helms, who was a crazy racist good ol boy but who wasn't a neocon, made some remark about how Clinton had better not come here - because of NAFTA.

My mother lost her factory job due to NAFTA and went to community college - which was paid for by NAFTA, but that degree has yet to help her find another job. She's currently sorting clothes at Goodwill.

My generation doesn't remember that so much, because we were in late elementary school/early middle school. We remember the evil of Bush much better and base our political decisions on not wanting anything like Bush again. But the older people - it's hard to convince them that Democrats are going to help them when it was legislation signed by a Democratic president that took away their livelihood.

[SIMPLYB1980]

3. I live in Gastonia. AKA the gas house.

This county went for McCain 52507 to 31384 for Obama. Most of these people are republicans that didn't care about NAFTA and supported it when the republican congress passed it with a veto prof majority during the Clinton Presidency. I don't fell to sorry for them. Also I think by equating NAFTA, witch needs work, with terrorist just shows them for the xenophobic people they are. "The foreigners are taking our jobs!!!" Is a ridiculous claim I here on a almost daily basis. What these fools don't realize is that they shouldn't be mad at foreigners, they should be mad at their corporate bosses that outsource their jobs.