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:
> Yeah, Steve that's all we need a new generation of conventioneers visting
> exotic places, meeting exotic people and screwing 'em! :o)
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> Stephen E Philion wrote:
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> > 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
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> > 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.
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> > Steve
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> > Stephen Philion
> > Lecturer/PhD Candidate
> > Department of Sociology
> > 2424 Maile Way
> > Social Sciences Bldg. # 247
> > Honolulu, HI 96822
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> > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Tom Lehman wrote:
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> > > 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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