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Laboring to Cross the NAFTA Divide
Bacon, David | November 13, 1995 issue

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In 1994 the Labor Department certified 17,000 applications for unemployment extensions for U.S. workers who lost their jobs because of NAFTA. This year there were 35,000 applications in the first nine months alone. The actual number of NAFTA caused job losses is undoubtedly much higher, given chronic underreporting. And with the battered peso, things aren't expected to improve soon, as Mexican labor grows cheaper and cheaper and Mexicans lose jobs in even greater numbers. After NAFTA, U.S. workers felt the full impact of the international department's disastrous betrayal. Forty-five years of cold war politics in Mexico had built no relationships based on solidarity.

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UNITED States. Dept. of Labor; ECONOMIC policy; FREE trade; UNEMPLOYMENT; LABOR; UNITED States
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