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<blockquote data-quote="Thebrownblob" data-source="post: 5958427" data-attributes="member: 60485">“Unions like the UAW, like the steelworkers, like the Teamsters, were really undermined in our collective bargaining power by NAFTA,&quot; he says. &quot;Because now, we go in and we bargain with [car] parts supplier companies and they say, &#039;Well, we can go to Mexico and make this cheaper.&#039; &quot;“We are not growing good, middle-class jobs in America,&quot; he says. &quot;I&#039;d like to know, where are the jobs? What are they talking about, Wal-Mart? They&#039;re talking about all these temporary, part-time jobs?&quot;The UAW is only about one-half the size it was two decades ago. Again, that can&#039;t all be attributed to NAFTA. General Motors and Chrysler both went through bankruptcy and survived, but are now much smaller. And the share of the car and truck market that U.S. car companies command is down, as well.”In Mexico, the auto industry has boomed.”[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.npr.org/2013/12/17/251945882/what-has-nafta-meant-for-workers-that-debates-still-raging[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thebrownblob, post: 5958427, member: 60485"] “Unions like the UAW, like the steelworkers, like the Teamsters, were really undermined in our collective bargaining power by NAFTA," he says. "Because now, we go in and we bargain with [car] parts supplier companies and they say, 'Well, we can go to Mexico and make this cheaper.' " “We are not growing good, middle-class jobs in America," he says. "I'd like to know, where are the jobs? What are they talking about, Wal-Mart? They're talking about all these temporary, part-time jobs?" The UAW is only about one-half the size it was two decades ago. Again, that can't all be attributed to NAFTA. General Motors and Chrysler both went through bankruptcy and survived, but are now much smaller. And the share of the car and truck market that U.S. car companies command is down, as well.” In Mexico, the auto industry has boomed.” [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.npr.org/2013/12/17/251945882/what-has-nafta-meant-for-workers-that-debates-still-raging[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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