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James Traficant: “NAFTA is 10 weeks old, and already workers from 50 plants have filed for job training and displacement services. That is…”

On the recordMarch 22, 1994
NAFTA is 10 weeks old, and already workers from 50 plants have filed for job training and displacement services. That is 50 plants, 10 weeks, 5 plants a week--9 in Pennsylvania, 8 in Washington, 7 in New Jersey, 5 in New York, 4 in Massachusetts. What do we say to those families of workers without jobs? Sorry? Good luck? Hope you make it? What are the jobs they are being retrained for, I ask the Members of Congress. Burger flippers? Corn cob pipe assemblers? Mr. Speaker, NAFTA was a treaty, and in fact I say it is unconstitutional. With layoffs like this, NAFTA means free trade for Mexico all right and stone-cold unemployment and separation from work for American workers. Mr. Speaker, the Congress had better start looking for jobs in our own country.
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James Traficant
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Addressing the impact of NAFTA on American workers and job displacement.

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