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Bush Wants to Expand NAFTA

April 17, 2001

In the guise of free trade with Latin and South America, President Bush is preparing to ship more American jobs south of the border in the near future. 

Bush is traveling to Quebec this week to promote a plan to create a Western Hemisphere free-trade zone, as well as scheduling meetings earlier with Chile's president, Ricardo Lagos, and with Argentina President Fernando De la Rua on the same subject.

Such a zone would expand NAFTA to include Latin and South America.  If Bush has his way, American workers, already reeling from jobs lost to NAFTA, will see more factories close their doors and move south for cheaper labor and to escape the U.S.'s tougher labor laws.

"American workers don't mind competing when the competition is fair," President Ed Hill said, "But the competition must meet the basic standards of worker rights, including freedom of association and the right to bargain."

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