With FTAA looking to be an expansion of NAFTA, people should educate themselves on the world after NAFTA. Since corporations now are able to "move high-paying jobs to countries with lower wages and bust unionization drives with threats to transfer production abroad" ("Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the FTAA", p.1), "the race-to-the-bottom" will only accelerate under the FTAA. The passing of FTAA will now set the exploited workers of Mexico against even more desperate workers in countries such as Guatemala and Haiti. The average pay of a Mexican worker in a manual labor job is only seventy cents an hour. The average of 8-to 1 is the number of workers for a Mexican wage to the United States minimum wage. Over the past two years, over 280,000 jobs have left Mexico, with the closing of over 350 maqualidoras ("Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the FTAA, p.1). .
Any idea why business would move? To make this more personal and not such a national look at unemployment, look at the number of jobs lost in Kansas alone. Over eighteen hundred jobs were lost in Kansas after NAFTA, but if that is not personal enough, let's look at Leavenworth alone. Seventy-two jobs were lost in Leavenworth, Kansas when the Exide battery plant closed locally and then increased production in its new plant in Mexico (Public Citizen. p.1). Since we now have made it local, look into the lives of the newly unemployed. When these unemployed do find a job, over 23 percent of the jobs pay less by a massive average of twenty-three percent or on average $4, 400 per year (Unite Union. p.1). Even in Mexico, the number of citizens living in poverty has increased since NAFTA ("Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the FTAA. p.1).
Included in these jobs lost are the 33,000 small farmers in the US who have gone out of business since NAFTA, more than six times the rate before NAFTA began. This is no surprise since the price of corn declined thirty-three percent, thirty-four percent for soybeans, and forty-two percent for wheat from 1995-2000 ("Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the FTAA" p.
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