Showing posts with the label NAFTA

Why Workers Support Trump, and What to Do About It

A powerful feature  article in the Times this week gets across the real suffering of many native-born U.S. workers as their industrial jobs are relocated to Mexico and they are forced into lower-payi…

Don’t Punish the Dreamers—Punish the Corporations Driving Forced Migration

By David Bacon, Working In These Times September 11, 2017 The "dreamers," young recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program—are the true children of the North Am…

Renegotiating NAFTA Will Only Serve the Rich -- Just Like It Always Has

By David L. Wilson, Truthout  August 21, 2017 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect at midnight on January 1, A Mexican response to NAFTA, January 2994 1994. That night, th…

U.S. talks tough on trade deficit as NAFTA discussions begin

The United States drew a hard line for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement on Wednesday, demanding major concessions aimed at slashing trade deficits with Mexico and Canada and boo…

Nafta Superhighway Returns From The Dead

The Trans-Texas Corridor, part of the NAFTA Superhighway projected to link the United States with Canada and Mexico as an integral cog of the North American Union, is back on the agenda after Texas…
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