"Now, given the experience that we have had……" — Stephen F. Lynch
"Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging."
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Stephen F. Lynch
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18 Quotes by Stephen F. Lynch
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Free trade should not mean free labor.
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Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.
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Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.
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Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.
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I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.
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The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products…
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If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages,…
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Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes…
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The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington,…
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Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than…
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Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have…
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Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.
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