Comments on: Economy Reality Check: Make Full Employment Job One http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/28/economy-reality-check-make-full-employment-job-one/ USW Fighting Globally For Workers' Dignity Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:09:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: gspencer http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/28/economy-reality-check-make-full-employment-job-one/comment-page-1/#comment-857 gspencer Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:35:57 +0000 http://blog.usw.org/?p=4584#comment-857 Free Trade means that US workers must (generally) compete with foreign worker pay scales, foreign benefit packages (none), the more productive foreign labor work rules (none), and the lower environmental manufacturing costs that are available in foreign countries. We need to repeal all of the "FREE TRADE" laws that were created in the last 30 years, and then the corporations (and/or individual businessmen) could not outsource the manufacturing jobs to foreigners because of the extremely high US import tariffs that we could re-impose to protect our US jobs. The Democrats and the Republican members of the US congress and the US Senate created the "Free Trade" laws that caused US businesses to move their US factories overseas and lay off all of the US employees and take advantage of lower labor and environmental costs available in foreign countries. Free Trade means that US workers must (generally) compete with foreign worker pay scales, foreign benefit packages (none), the more productive foreign labor work rules (none), and the lower environmental manufacturing costs that are available in foreign countries.

We need to repeal all of the “FREE TRADE” laws that were created in the last 30 years, and then the corporations (and/or individual businessmen) could not outsource the manufacturing jobs to foreigners because of the extremely high US import tariffs that we could re-impose to protect our US jobs.

The Democrats and the Republican members of the US congress and the US Senate created the “Free Trade” laws that caused US businesses to move their US factories overseas and lay off all of the US employees and take advantage of lower labor and environmental costs available in foreign countries.

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