NAFTA and Labor in North America

Index

index Abascal Carranza, Carlos, 59–60, 85–86 Abascal Project, 85–88 Acevedo, Alejandra, 185 Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (Protocol of San Salvador), 70 AFL (American Federation of Labor): early collaborationist stance in, 11–12; labor-management partnership initiative , 115–16; Monroe Doctrine “labor corollary,” 22, 29; neglect of immigrant workers, 24; opposition to CTAL, 29; organization in Canada, 38; organization in Mexico, 18–21; position on immigration , 94; support for U.S. expansionism, 18; support for WWI involvement, 19; WWII-era collaboration initiative, 26. See also AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: formation of, 34; NAFTA-era membership decline, 130–32; post-WWII anti-Communism and, 34; protectionist stance of, 95; support for NAALC complaints , 76 Africa, 10 agriculture industry: conversion to wage labor, 11; guest-worker rights in, 108–9; immigrant workers in, 99–100; Mexican corn imports, 61, 104; NAFTA-era employment data, 104–5; National Agricultural Workers’ Union, 94; UFW and, 102; WACC strike, 99–100 Aguilar Zinzer, Adolfo, 58 aircraft manufacturing industry, 128–29 airline industry, 53, 116 Albertsons Corporation, 122, 124 Amalgamated Meat Cutters, 122–23 American Alliance for Labor and Democracy , 19 American Axle Corporation, 57, 156 American Federation of Labor. See AFL American Plan of Employment, 23 American Rights at Work, 125 Andrade Law Office, 88 Andrews, Gregg, 20 anti-radicalism, 19–20, 22, 25–26, 34–35 apparel industry, 36, 78, 84–85 Argentina, 3, 47 Arroyo, Edgar, 185 Article 123 (Mexican Constitution), 17, 28, 30, 68–69, 86, 100 Authentic Labor Front (FAT), 52 auto industry: Chrysler bailout and, 150–53, 192; Clayton Plan proposed effect on, 32; Delphi bankruptcy and, 153–54, 157–65; downsizing in, 144–46, 153, 167; immigrant workers in, 100; Japanese-American auto plants, 164–65, 167–69; Japanese “lean production” business model in, 36–37; management salaries and bonuses, 234 . index 144–45, 154–57; maquiladora manufacturing operations, 71; Mexican protectionist policies for, 46; NAALC complaints and, 76–77, 79–82; NAFTA regulations for, 148–49; North American auto industry integration, 147–48, 192; operations in China, 185–86; overcapacity in, 146; twentieth -century prosperity of, 142; UAW-Big Three contract of 2007 and, 166–79, 187, 192; union organization in, 26, 32, 143–44; U.S. auto import quotas, 117 Auto Trim and Custom Trim/Breed Mexicana , 76 Bailey, Curt, 170 banking. See Bretton Woods monetary system ; currency; economy Barlow, Andrew D., 14 Becker, George, 117–18 Belgium, 68 Bell, Linda, 118 Bellamy, Lolinda, 177 Benchich, Al, 171 benefits: concessionary bargaining and, 118–27; cost of wages and benefits, 5, 119–22; early UAW gains in, 167; employer -paid health care, 163, 166, 172–74, 187; national health insurance (Canada), 32, 148; Volunteer Employees’ Beneficiary Associations, 127, 163, 166–67, 169, 172, 192. See also wages Benimadhu, Prem, 140 Benson, Herman, 172 Berry, Dave, 150 Bethlehem Steel, 25 B. F. Goodrich Company, 79, 125–26 Bieber, Owen, 147–48 Big Three auto makers. See Chrysler Motor Co.; Ford Motor Co.; General Motors BIP (Border Industrialization Program), 35–36, 102 Bluestone, Barry, 114 Boal, Ellis, 176 Boeing, 128 Bolivia, 3 Bolshevism, 22, 23 Bombardier Aerospace, 129 border (U.S.-Mexico), 95–96, 97, 195. See also immigrant workers; transnational labor Border Industrialization Program (BIP), 35–36, 102 boycotts, 90, 108 Boyd, Michael, 128–29 Bracero Program, 101 Brazil, 3, 43, 47 Brennan Center for Justice, 88 Bretton Woods monetary system: economic nationalism and, 46, 189, 191; gold standard and, 38; institutions associated with, 31. See also economy Bridgestone/Firestone, 126 Brody, David, 36 Bronfenbrenner, Kate, 119–20 Buffenbarger, Tom, 124–25, 129 Bush, George H. W., 63 Bush, George W., 90 Business Coordinating Council (CCE), 86 “Buy American” campaign, 115, 117–18 CAB (Conciliation and Arbitration Board), 80–81 Calderón, Felipe, 1, 40, 63 Calles, Plutarco Elías, 44 Camacho Solís, Manuel, 57 Canada: anti-Americanism in, 37; anti-radicalism in, 19–20; CAW contract of 2008, 179–84, 187; decline of manufacturing, 5; development of manufacturing in, 10–11; expansion of wage labor, 11; immigration into, 93; labor nationalism in, 38; national health insurance, 32, 148; overview of organized labor in, 133–36; post-WWII anti-Communism and, 34; public sector unionism, 37; social wage programs, 32, 133; union organization in, 13–14, 18, 22, 26–27; U.S. economic domination and, 2; U.S. investments in, 34 Canada-United States Auto Pact of 1965, 147 Canada-United States...