[SPAM] Against NAFTA: Resolution to Support Workers in Canada, Mexico and the USA
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1457 .... July 28, 2017
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Against NAFTA:
Resolution to Support Workers in Canada, Mexico and the USA
Autoworkers Caravan
The following resolution calling for the repeal of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is the work of the Autoworkers Caravan. It is an organizing, educating and mobilizing group of current and former autoworkers, largely located in the USA, but with some Canadian Unifor members as well. The group is somewhat of a successor to the once active oppositional movement within the U.S.-centred ‘International’, the United Auto Workers (UAW) -- the now defunct New Directions movement. The Autoworkers Caravan, formed in 2008 and based in the Detroit area, continues to challenge the leadership of the UAW, and works to democratize and energize union locals across the USA. Caravan activity has... included opposing concessions, unequal tiering of workplaces and lack of union democracy. It champions international solidarity and support of autoworkers across the NAFTA zone -- as is clear from the resolution below.
The resolution, in the words of one of the Caravan activists, Scott Houldieson, "will be broadcast to as many local and international unions as possible. One of the goals will be to rally opposition to another corporate trade deal that sacrifices our environment and our standard of living. The NAFTA renegotiations are set to begin on August 16, 2017. We would like to see simultaneous rallies across North America on that date in opposition to NAFTA. Let's rally opposition to NAFTA on August 16th and at regular intervals afterwards."
Whereas, President Trump made a campaign promise to scrap NAFTA, and
Whereas, there is an attack on immigrant workers documented and undocumented in the United States and NAFTA has been used to pit U.S. workers against Mexican workers to benefit multi-national Corporations from the U.S. and around the world, and...
