Mexican trucks

[Max Sawicky]

At 08:07 AM 8/2/01 -0400, Doug asked:
>[So Max, what's the Teamster response to this? Sounds pretty 
>convincing. And even if 36% of Mexican trucks failed inspection, 
>isn't the 25% of U.S. truck that do something Teamsters should be 
>making more noise about instead of accepting it as a norm against 
>which Mexican failures are measured?]

Safety, like other regulatory matters, is a
legitimate concern that can be used or abused.
I have no idea which is the case in this matter.

But as far as I am concerned, any opportunity to
block the use of low-wage/non-union labor in a
higher-wage/unionized market is a worthwhile
endeavor of any labor movement.  That's what
workers do, and it is what they should do.

mbs