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Speaker criticizes proposed U.S.-Mexico free trade pact
By Shelly Solon
Kansan staff writer
Some Mexican workers live in shacks with no plumbing, electricity or clean water and work long hours for $4 a day, and the conditions will continue if the United States-Mexico free trade agreement passes, said a speaker last night at a Latin American Solidarity dinner.
"We have no problem with trading with Mexico," said Jack Hendrick, vice president of the United Auto Workers Local #249 in Kansas City, Mo. "But North American free trade needs to be structured so workers on both sides of the border can grow."
About 30 people attended the speech at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Hedrick, who studied Mexican
Hedrick described working conditions in the maquiladoras, or foreignowned facilities in Mexico along the U.S. border. Ninety percent are American-owned, he said.
working conditions and free trade for about nine years, talked about the problems with U.S. corporations in Mexico and how the current free trade agreement will worsen working conditions.
"These people are treated like slaves," Hedrick said. "Foreign countries take their business there and put nothing back into the country. Companies dump toxic waste and chemicals into the water, and the workers make about $4 a day. They can't even afford to buy the products they produce."
He said U.S. citizens should not allow Mexicans to be treated poorly by U.S. corporations.
The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, an organization to which Hedrick belongs, is working to change the trade agreement to include environmental and child labor laws.
Liz Maggard, Latin American Solidarity member, said the proposal was on the fast track in Congress, which means Congress can vote yes or no, but cannot amend the bill.
"Until the bill's amended with standards, groups will hope that Congress votes no," Maggard said. Jon Vincent, director of Latin American studies, said the trade proposal was important because it would affect all people politically and economically
"The proposal is complicated because about two dozen government committees are dealing with specific items of it," Vincent said.
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