Noam Chomsky on Jobs

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Free Trade Agreements move jobs to non-union areas

Under Reagan, the US managed to drive labor costs way below the level of our competitors (except for Britain). That’s produced consequences not only in Mexico & the US but all across the industrial world. For example, one of the effects of the so-called free trade agreement with Canada was to stimulate a big flow of jobs from Canada to the southeast US, because that’s an essentially non-union area. Wages are lower; fewer benefits; workers can barely organize. So that’s an attack against Canadian workers Source: Secrets, Lies, and Democracy, by Noam Chomsky, p. 19 May 2, 1994

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