Mr. Coffee says, adios!

[Stephen E Philion]

Well, Tom, if the unions were supporting actively independent unionists in
Mexico a decade or two back, well capital flight to Mexico might not seem
*so* attractive as it does now...Active support of yellow unions in Latin
America has come back to haunt the labor movement in the US. NAFTA is
reality, solutions are needed that face how that reality got here in the
first place. 

The labor movement in the US has started to take some steps in that
direction (Henwood, Bacon and others' reportage on that is useful in this
regard). Hopefully it will continue to move in that direction. It's never
too late after all. 

Steve

Stephen Philion
Lecturer/PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
2424 Maile Way
Social Sciences Bldg. # 247
Honolulu, HI 96822

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Tom Lehman wrote:


> Mr Coffee plans to shut down its Cleveland area plant and move
> production of its coffee machines to Mexico.  Four hundred some workers
> will be out of a job---90% of whom are women!
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> The Mr.Coffee workers are represented by the Teamsters and make about 9
> dollars an hour on average.  The plant has been very profitable and this
> is just another example of NAFTA at work.
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> Tom Lehman
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