How swell! I'll coin a phrase to describe it: "Insourcing"

[Stinky The Clown]

During the Reign Of Idiot Son, there was a huge outcry right here DU at just the thought of Mexican truckers running their rigs into the US.



Safety, we cried.

Ruining our wage scale, we yelled.

And so forth.

Today, there's this:

U.S., Mexico reach deal to end trucking dispute

By TIM JOHNSON
McClatchy Newspapers

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico and the United States agreed in principle Thursday to open U.S. highways to Mexican long-haul trucks, ending a lingering safety dispute that prompted Mexico to impose more than $2 billion in retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exporters. "After nearly 20 years, we finally have found a clear path to resolving the dispute over trucking between our two countries," President Barack Obama said at a White House news conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon at his side.

The agreement calls for Mexico to lift 50 percent of its retaliatory tariffs immediately while Mexican truckers undergo safety, language and driver training.

Obama said that he would move ahead "in a way that strengthens the safety of cross-border trucking, lifts tariffs on billions of dollars of U.S. goods, expands our exports to Mexico and creates jobs on both sides of the border."

But Teamsters union President Jim Hoffa charged that the agreement "caves in to business interests," adding that "Mexican trucks simply don't meet the same standards as U.S. trucks."

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/03/2096309/us-mexico-reach-deal-to-end-trucking.html#ixzz1Fad96nWj

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http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/03/2096309/us-mexico-reach-deal-to-end-trucking.html

As scarce as jobs are, here's a way to cut wages *and* shed some good ol' 'merican jobs. Legally "insource" low wage workers from another country to replace not-as-low wage domestic workers.

Let's Insource More.

H1Bs were a way that still works.

Surely we can come up with more, can't we?

Sweller and sweller, it gets.

Yippee!


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[walldude]

1. Oh you missed the defense of this earlier today..

Just another one of those things that was bad when a republican did it but Obama had no choice.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Why am I not surprised?

No, I didn't see it.

I'm not sure I *want* to see it.

[catabryna]

3. Look up the TransTexas Corridor...

this plan has been in the works for years.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. And we have resisted it for years

Today, it happened.

Hence the post.

Yippee.

[catabryna]

5. I'm not sure what to say...

I lived in Texas when this was being discussed... but, it was like opposing the war in Iraq; no one cared, because no one was paying attention. :-(

[RB TexLa]

6. The three economies of North America have to be integrated. You either want to move forward or

backward. And when did language learning become a requirement for any kind of motor vehicle operation in the US?

[sudopod]

7. "The three economies of North America have to be integrated."

Why?

[leftstreet]

9. So that we can all have Canadian single payer healthcare

:bounce:

wait a minute....

[Fumesucker]

8. It's hard to see it as anything other than a race to the bottom in pay and conditions..

Mexico is not on the same level as the US and light years away from Canada in terms of regulation and enforcement in practically every instance.

[texshelters]

14. Yes, that IS the point

a race to bottom for workers and a consolidation of profits for multinationals. Do you think this transportation integration is going to bring wages UP for Mexican truckers. Ha! These trade agreements almost always bring wages down in the nation with a better standard of living. If it brought wages up, I would be all for "free trade". It doesn't.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[catabryna]

10. I'm more concerned about the potential for the pushing down of wages

than I am about the abilities of the drivers... I'm just as equally concerned about the condition of the trucks, the condition of the roads, and just who it is that pays for those roads. The corporations don't pay for those roads and repairs; we do. You and I and every other citizen in this country.

Edited to correct a typo.

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. Moving your way forward means US worker's pay goes BACKWARDS.

Like backwards into the toilet. Will you ever wake the hell up RB?

[lonestarnot]

11. Guess they'll have to kill a few people with those fucked up trucks the pollute like Mexico City.

Then we'll take a second look. Nah prollee not. In addition, how many do not have insurance?

[Boojatta]

13. I need to read newspapers more often. I thought he was a missing person.

But Teamsters union President Jim Hoffa charged that the agreement "caves in to business interests,"

[formercia]

15. I think someone is trying to get a good score from the IMF

doing it the easy way: Fucking over the Serfs. More Union Busting by bringing in Mexican scab trucks.