The Trans-Pacific Partnership looks like a giant step toward the end of sovereign nations.

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144. Here's some Links to help you out about NAFTA since you seem confused:

NAFTA at 20

Read the new report from Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch: NAFTA at 20 - One Million U.S. Jobs Lost, Mass Displacement and Instability in Mexico, Record Income Inequality, Scores of Corporate Attacks on Environmental and Health Laws.


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Resources

Report: NAFTA at 20 - One Million U.S. Jobs Lost, Mass Displacement and Instability in Mexico, Record Income Inequality, Scores of Corporate Attacks on Environmental and Health Laws
Press Release: NAFTA at 20: One Million Lost U.S. Jobs, Higher Income Inequality, Doubled Agriculture Trade Deficit With Mexico and Canada, Displacement and Instability in Mexico, and Corporate Attacks on Environmental Laws
Learn more about the NAFTA cross-border trucking case
Let them Eat Imports: Food Imports to U.S. Soar under WTO-NAFTA Model, Threatening Family Farmers and Safety
NAFTA's Broken Promises 1994 - 2013: Outcomes of the North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA's Legacy for Mexico: Economic Displacement, Lower Wages for Most, Increased Immigration
Debunking USTR Claims in Defense of NAFTA: The Real NAFTA Score 2008
NAFTA Superhighway/SPP: The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
NAFTA: Kicked Up a Notch (FPIF 5/23/07)
The World Bank on NAFTA: Wrong Numbers Lead to Wrong Conclusion
The Ten Year Track Record of NAFTA

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NAFTA’s Impact on U.S. Workers--Economic Policy Institute
Posted December 9, 2013 at 4:00 pm by Jeff Faux (RESEARCH REPORTS AT LINK)


The North American Free Trade Agreement (NATFA) was the door through which American workers were shoved into the neoliberal global labor market.

By establishing the principle that U.S. corporations could relocate production elsewhere and sell back into the United States, NAFTA undercut the bargaining power of American workers, which had driven the expansion of the middle class since the end of World War II. The result has been 20 years of stagnant wages and the upward redistribution of income, wealth and political power.

NAFTA affected U.S. workers in four principal ways. First, it caused the loss of some 700,000 jobs as production moved to Mexico. Most of these losses came in California, Texas, Michigan, and other states where manufacturing is concentrated. To be sure, there were some job gains along the border in service and retail sectors resulting from increased trucking activity, but these gains are small in relation to the loses, and are in lower paying occupations. The vast majority of workers who lost jobs from NAFTA suffered a permanent loss of income.

Second, NAFTA strengthened the ability of U.S. employers to force workers to accept lower wages and benefits. As soon as NAFTA became law, corporate managers began telling their workers that their companies intended to move to Mexico unless the workers lowered the cost of their labor. In the midst of collective bargaining negotiations with unions, some companies would even start loading machinery into trucks that they said were bound for Mexico. The same threats were used to fight union organizing efforts. The message was: “If you vote in a union, we will move south of the border.” With NAFTA, corporations also could more easily blackmail local governments into giving them tax reductions and other subsidies.

- See more Research and Reports at:

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NAFTA’s Impact on U.S. Workers