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Canada Demands Republicans Drop Anti-Union Laws In NAFTA Negotiations - YouTube
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Donald Trump had promised the United States
that he was going to get rid of NAFTA, it
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was a horrible deal, one of the worst deals
ever.
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He was going to renegotiate it and make it
better, make it actually work for the United
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States.
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That's ambitious talk, and it's something
that resinated very well with American workers,
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but so far the negotiations that have taken
place between the US, Canada and Mexico aren't
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necessarily going in the United States favor.
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You know why?
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Because republicans in this country have spent
decades since the time of Ronald Reagan trying
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to destroy labor union in the United States.
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I'm not just saying that as why we need to
protect American workers.
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I'm saying that because Canada has specifically
said during these renegotiations that part
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of any renewed NAFTA contract, or NAFTA 2.0,
has to include a provision that would eliminate
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all of those republican sponsored right to
work laws here in the United States.
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Canada is pissed off about how we've treated
labor unions and working people in the United
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States and they're trying to use NAFTA to
get us to treat our workers better, to pay
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them batter wages, to allow them to unionize.
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While it's great that Canada is doing it,
it's also pathetic that we have to have an
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outside country come in as if we were some
kind of third world country telling us how
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we need to treat our workers.
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They're absolutely right about it.
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We should abolish these right to work laws
because what it does is it prevents workers
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from unionizing, which prevents them from
being able to collectively bargain for higher
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wages, better benefits, better healthcare
packages, better vacation packages, or better
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worker protections, safety in the workplace.
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Unions run that and when you take that away
you take away the voices of millions of American
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workers who cannot stand together without
some organization holding them together.
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Republicans don't like that unions tend to
favor democratic politicians and that is why
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they enacted these right to work laws to effectively
kill labor unions in the United States.
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Before Reagan came into office we had a robust
middle class in this country, and close to
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50% American worker union membership.
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Today, dying middle class, and less than 12%
of American workers are a member of a union.
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That is not a coincidence folks.
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There is a direct correlation between the
decline in the middle class and a decline
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in union membership in the United States.
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That graph showing those, it goes hand-in-hand.
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When one declined the other one went right
there with it, and Canada understands that.
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They're trying to tell us that you've got
to take better care of your workers by listening
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to them because that's all this is about.
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Canada's not coming forth and saying, "You've
got to pay them more.
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You got to pay them higher wages.
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You've got to be nicer to them or work on
better work place protections so they don't
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get injured on the job."
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All Canada is saying at this point is that
you have to give them a voice, give them an
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opportunity to have a voice.
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There's nothing wrong with that folks.
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Canada is 100% right on this and it is once
again pathetic that we as a country have to
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have somebody else step in to help protect
American workers.
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That should be the job of the federal government,
but it's a job that they abdicated back in
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the 1980s when they elected their first celebrity
president in Ronald Reagan.
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It's something that continues to this very
day.
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