Are the truckers' unions planning convoys to demonstrate against the proposed NAFTA superhighway?

[brentspeak]

I really hope they have the mother of all convoys in protest. Do whatever it takes to prevent the "superhighway" from happening. Park their rigs in front of the White House, in front of every robber baron's mile-long driveways, in front of their country clubs, you name it.

[AngryAmish]

1. no

[gatorboy]

2. Eh? I hear this highway is real and then I hear it's a myth.

Which is it? :shrug:

[Jim__]

3. The Nation had along article on the proposed NAFTA Superhighway.

The article claims there is no such thing:

In some senses it has. Prompted by angry phone calls and e-mail from their constituents, local legislators are beginning to take action. In February the Montana state legislature voted 95 to 5 for a resolution opposing "the North American Free Trade Agreement Superhighway System" as well as "any effort to implement a trinational political, government entity among the United States, Canada, and Mexico." Similar resolutions have been introduced in eighteen other states as well as the House of Representatives, where H. Con Res. 40 has attracted, as of this writing, twenty-seven co-sponsors. Republican presidential candidates in Iowa and New Hampshire now routinely face hostile questions about the highway at candidate forums. Citing a spokesperson for the Romney campaign, the Concord Monitor reports that "the road comes up at town meetings second only to immigration policy."

Grassroots movement exposes elite conspiracy and forces politicians to respond: It would be a heartening story but for one small detail.

There's no such thing as a proposed NAFTA Superhighway.

Though opposition to the nonexistent highway is the cause célèbre of many a paranoiac, the myth upon which it rests was not fabricated out of whole cloth. Rather, it has been sewn together from scraps of fact.

lots more...

[pinto]

8. Good article, well sourced and rational. Overblown internet hyperbole muddies some real issues,

specifically labor concerns and the broader implications of NAFTA, that are a concrete reality.

There is no secret plan to form a North American Union, there is no NAFTA Superhighway as such - yet there are agreements being considered that would bypass labor union standards at the West Coast ports and in the trucking industry that are a real concern.

These arise from a flawed NAFTA, imo. It needs to be overhauled to address these concerns, in the least.

[OregonBlue]

4. They are going ahead with the plan to allow Mexican trucks into the U.S.

Per yesterday's discussion:

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1617907&mesg_id=1617907

[OhioChick]

5. I Thought That

Something of this nature was supposed to take place last April? :shrug:

[B Calm]

6. The super highway is already in existence! It's every interstate

north of the border.

[brentspeak]

7. Right, that's what I meant

The actual building of a "superhighway" might be a myth, but allowing Mexican truckers into the U.S. isn't. I hope the American truckers don't take this lying down.

[Jed Dilligan]

9. Them, and eleven longhaired friends of Jesus

in a chartreuse microbus.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Build a highway just for the truckers from Mexico.

Have the highway built using crushed scrap metal with only 2 lanes. Notice that I stated highway not highways.

[Scout]

11. I heard on Air America this is a myth....

There is some kind of major highway that was built in Texas, but there is not a plan for a superhighway through the US.

[Canuckistanian]

12. Didn't they already plan a convoy like that earlier?

Whatever happened to it? It was called "The Great Truck-Out". It was supposed to have happened Apr. 23-25th.

http://freedomfighters1.com/web/freedomfighters1.com/convoy.html

[Ikonoklast]

13. You can't get near the White House in a rig

Unless you want to get shot very seriously dead.

Just how many 'truckers union' members do you think there are? The Teamsters account for only one in eight drivers nationally.

Most goods in this country move on non-union trucks, and the non-union members of the ATA are the ones beating the drum for Mexican trucks to enter this country. They have a vested interest in driving trucking wages down, and are going to use their Mexican business divisions and partners to do it for them.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. This does not only affect the truckers. Supposedly cargo will be shipped to Mexico

and then brought into the US via the highway. This will also crush the dock workers in California. Shrub has tried to bust that union since he took office.