Obama seeks to open border to Mexican trucking

[JSt0rm]

Which would be the same as what people in 3rd world shitholes make?

Wage parity with 3rd world nations is not a very good idea.

No one said life is fair. In fact life is becoming more fair every decade that goes by*



*for the lower classes of the world

 

[hal2kilo]

Not really.

This doesn't change the number of trucks from Mexico crossing the border.

Currently they cross the border and deliver to a terminal in the U.S.

Then the loads (including any contraband) are transferred to U.S. trucks/tractors/rail to complete the journey.

Yea, I can't see how not having to drop their load at a U.S. terminal close to the border could be any different than further into the U.S. Are you kidding?

 

[Engineer]

NAFTA needs to go.

This.

Just keep cutting out the decent paying jobs (foundation) and the whole thing will crumble (US economy from top to bottom).

 

[1prophet]

Unions were in the best position to stop this nonsense years ago but it seems they fumbled the ball and in some cases passed it to the opposing team, one of the biggest mistakes they made was becoming subservient to a political party (Democrats) instead of their members.

Unions were supposed to serve the people but today it looks like they prefer serving their Democrat party puppet masters even if it goes against the very American worker members they were supposed to protect.

http://workinprogress.firedoglake.c...reward-the-administration-for-good-behavior/#

When the White House dropped the NAFTA-style Korea Free Trade deal at 7pm Friday night, it was followed by an even-later Friday night news dump from the one union with a stake in the agreement. Around 10:30pm, the United Auto Workers (UAW) released a statement of its support for the job-killing trade agreement with Korea, claiming that its members would actually benefit from the deal.
UAW President Bob King tells a more revealing story about the union’s curious support for the NAFTA-style Korea Free Trade deal, though. In an interview with labor reporter Mike Elk for In These Times, King makes the shocking admission that the union endorsed the deal simply to “reward the [Obama] Administration for good behavior” just for including the unions in the discussions.

King countered that the deal was not perfect; there were many things he objected to about the agreement. However, King added that, “It was important to endorse in order to reward the administration for its good behavior of including labor in negotiations.”

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So the White House includes UAW to some extent in its negotiation of yet another NAFTA-style free trade deal, and despite tremendous opposition from virtually every other union and his own staff, Bob King unilaterally decided to endorse the Korea deal “to reward the administration for its good behavior.”
Bob King appears to live in an alternate universe in which the White House has even thought of “good behavior” when dealing with major priorities from labor unions. That universe also doesn’t account for the fact that the best-case scenario for the UAW is 800 new jobs at most from this deal.
It appears as though King stands virtually alone in the AFL-CIO for endorsing the deal. Steelworkers President Leo Gerard took a swipe at King for failing to consult his own members and other unions before endorsing late Friday night. But some of the harshest public criticism yet comes from inside the UAW. Labor Notes reports that one UAW official slammed King’s endorsement as “hell of a thing to do, forsaking everybody’s interest for your own.” Local leaders aren’t happy, either.

Remember when Unions were anti illegal immigration because they saw it as a threat to their members jobs, talk about cutting off your nose to spite one's face.

http://www.daveedgr.com/publications/popular-press/unions-sue-to-save-illegal-aliens/

Unions Sue to Save Illegal Aliens

After the largest workplace immigration raid in American history, labor lawyers counter-attacked with lawsuits to save illegal aliens from deportation. Long opposed to illegal immigration, unions are now among its biggest defenders.
1,282 illegal aliens were arrested in Swift & Co. meat-packing plants in six states on Dec. 12, 2006. More than 1000 federal agents swarmed the plants in near-simultaneous raids. Most of 1,300 were slated for immediate deportation, while a few were held pending other criminal charges.
“This investigation has uncovered a disturbing front in the war against illegal immigration,” Julie L. Myers, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said at a press conference. “We believe that the genuine identities of possibly hundreds of U.S. citizens are being stolen or hijacked by criminal organizations and sold to illegal aliens in order to gain unlawful employment in this country.”
Unions see it differently. The United Food & Commercial Workers union, which represents 10,000 employees at five of the six affected plants, was outraged. “Essentially, the agents stormed the plants, many of them in riot gear, in an effort designed to terrorize the workforce,” UFCW food division director Mark Lauritsen said in a prepared statement.
Some 12% of all unionized members at the five plants organized by the UFCW were found to be here illegally.
Nonetheless, the union has been vigorous in its defense of its undocumented workers. The union spokeswoman, Jill Cashen, quickly announced that the union’s lawyers would go to federal court to block the deportation of the almost 1,300 workers snared in the raid. “Our job is to seek to end any point of exploitation at the hands of employers or the government that takes place,” Cashen told Pajamas Media. “It’s our job to defend workers.”
Defending illegal workers against deportation, even if they’re union members, marks a sharp break with more than a century of union policy. Up until the present moment, unions have opposed not only illegal migration but immigration in all forms. Richard Vedder, a professor of economics at Ohio University, has written a number of well-regarded books and articles about immigration and labor policy. “Historically, this would have been unheard of,” Vedder told Pajamas Media. “The traditional AFL craft unions were anti-immigration.”
What triggered the change?

I believe the day of the Unions is coming to an end, not because of the evil Republicans or Corporations but the knife (Nafta, GATT, illegal immigration) their supposed friends (Democratic Party) has stuck in their back.

When the Democrats finally decide they are no longer needed and a potential liability they will dump them like a worn out old whore.