NAFTA was a flat out attempt to undermine worker's rights in all three companies. Fluid capital that can flee at the first sight of unionisation or militancy. US corporations can now tell their workers that if they don't shut up and take what their given, then they'll just shift production over the border to sweatshop labourers. Meanwhile they're telling Mexican workers that their jobs will go to China. The result being that your job is worth less than ever before, because a Mexican will do it for 1/10th of the cost.
It's part of the WTO/IMF privatise everything/open markets cowboy capitalism.
Before the legislation was signed most Americans were against it.
It's one of the (many) reasons to see Republicans and Republicrats as one and same - more beholden to 'le grand capital' than their voters.
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