Report cites trade policy for lost jobs

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http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/business/s_264570.html

A new report on manufacturing job losses in Pennsylvania released Thursday blames U.S. trade policy that favors foreign imports and rewards companies that move production offshore.

The AFL-CIO Industrial Council Job Export Database Project detailed job losses at companies involving 50 or more employees reported under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining and Notification (WARN) Act.

The report concluded that of 40,733 layoffs reported by Pennsylvania manufacturers under the WARN Act from January 2001 through May 2004, 70 percent were the result of foreign production shifts or competition from imports, primarily from China.

"Unfair trade policies are costing thousands and tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs," said Scott Paul, an AFL-CIO trade policy analyst, at a news conference at the United Steelworkers of America headquarters, Downtown.

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The AFL-CIO report follows similar reports issued over the past year showing that Pennsylvania has lost more than 228,000 manufacturing jobs since 1990. A report by the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO and the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association last November called for a moratorium on all future trade agreements and other actions.

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Good information can be found here:

http://www.workingamerica.org/issues/jobs.cfm

Every day in America, 81,378 people lose their jobs. Since 2001, the nation has lost nearly 1.7 million private- secter jobs. Millions of U.S. workers are looking for jobs, and workers are staying unemployed longer than at any time in the past 20 years. For every three job seekers, there’s just one job.

Too few new jobs are being created today, and too many of the new jobs don’t provide family-supporting wages, health care or retirement security. Jobs in growing industries pay 21 percent less than jobs in industries that are shrinking.

In the past three and a half years, 2.7 million good manufacturing jobs have disappeared. Now experts are saying up to 14 million white-collar jobs could be shipped overseas. And these jobs aren’t coming back.

The bottom line: America’s middle class is under attack.

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Also, go here: http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/todayseconomy/jobgrowth.cfm

[area51]

1. nazi trade policies

The republinazi trade policies are designed to get rid of America's middle class, and to make it extremely difficult for people to have a decent life/chance for upward mobility.

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2. And there is more.

Said trade and employment policies remove people from the medical consumer class. Such removal keeps them from accessing the care, both critical and preventative, that they need. That leads to sickness and death.

I have come to believe that is the intended effect. They want to cull the herd. Culling aids upward concentration of wealth and reduces pressures on energy supplies over the long term.

Now, someone convince me that I am wrong.