Obama drives US Teamsters jobs to Mexico

[ghettopalmetto]

GP, No, we're getting upset because there will be a net loss of good paying American jobs because of this deal. Mexican drivers, warehouse workers, mechanics, supporting office workers, insurance agents, or lack thereof, etc. will be replacing US workers; many of whom are union employees. The inequality of operating conditions on either side of the border will discourage US trucks from operating in Mexico making this more of a one way street than the proponents of this deal wish us to believe.

If I understand the original post correctly, US trucks are already not going into Mexico [[for other reasons). So what, exactly, would we be discouraging?

[oladub]

If I understand the original post correctly, US trucks are already not going into Mexico [[for other reasons). So what, exactly, would we be discouraging?

We would not be discouraging anything. Truck jackings, drug cartel violence, corrupt cops, and the like would discourage everything from US drivers to the insurers of US trucks from operating in Mexico. This is a pilot program, as mentioned before, which was executed by an Obama executive order over the 2007 vote of Congress. It is about to go into effect and is supposed to be a prelude to an expanded use of Mexican trucks on our roads to displace higher paid US workers.

The point is that this will create an uneven playing field in which US jobs will be replaced by Mexican jobs in the US without being balanced by many new US trucking jobs in Mexico.

[ghettopalmetto]

We would not be discouraging anything. Truck jackings, drug cartel violence, corrupt cops, and the like would discourage everything from US drivers to the insurers of US trucks from operating in Mexico. This is a pilot program, as mentioned before, which was executed by an Obama executive order over the 2007 vote of Congress. It is about to go into effect and is supposed to be a prelude to an expanded use of Mexican trucks on our roads to displace higher paid US workers.

The point is that this will create an uneven playing field in which US jobs will be replaced by Mexican jobs in the US without being balanced by many new US trucking jobs in Mexico.

You're saying three entirely different things here, two of which directly contradict each other.

[oladub]

You're saying three entirely different things here, two of which directly contradict each other.

Which are?

[Johnnny5]

You're saying three entirely different things here, two of which directly contradict each other.

Perhaps you are not aware of how the trucking worked before? Prior to this latest abomination trucks driving into the U.S from Mexico would transfer their cargo to a warehouse or to a U.S driver and U.S truck shortly after crossing the border [[And vice versa for the American drivers on the Mexico side of the border).
Now both drivers will be able to drive straight though from from the starting point in one country to the ending point in the other.


What oladub is saying is exactly how this is going to play out. The U.S worker is again getting screwed at the expense of the profit margins of corporations. What amazes me is that instead of supporting the American worker Obama is forcibly pushing this garbage against the will of Congress. It will undoubtedly lead to the loss of more U.S jobs to Mexico and to top it all off poses a safety issue as well.