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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
Ohio
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Addressing the impact of NAFTA on American workers and job displacement.

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