Why vote no to NAFTA times 10?

• NAFTA has already cost the U.S. 750,000 actual and potential jobs, destroying entire communities as employers moved key plants. Manufacturing jobs - the key to the middle class for generations of American workers - have been hit the hardest.
• New ‘maquiladora’ plants near the U.S. border hired about 500,000 Mexican workers, but overall, 1.4 million Mexican jobs have been lost. The cost of living in Mexico has tripled, but wages are 27% lower. Expect worse from the FTAA.
• Like NAFTA, the FTAA would protect corporate profits over people. NAFTA has made it harder for governments to protect workers’ rights, public health, and the environment - even within their own countries. FTAA rules could also expand the privatization of public services.
• Under NAFTA rules, Canadian-based Methanex corporation is demanding almost $1 billion from the U.S. because California passed a law banning a harmful fuel additive the company produces.
• Mexico was forced to pay $16 million to U.S.-based Metalclad because they did not want to allow Metalclad to re-open a toxic waste dump on Mexican soil.
• Canadian-based Funeral Home cain the Loewen Group is suing the U.S. government for $750 million. The Loewen Group, found guilty of fraudulent business practices by a Mississippi jury in 1995, claims that the state court system constituted a violation of its investor rights.