21 May 2009
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04 May 2009
News story in Gaston Gazette on May 2, 2009 - 6:59PM by Corey Friedman "Laid-off Freightliner workers, union members protest outsourcing at Gastonia march"
GASTONIA - Fourteen-month-old Jaden Guy held his mother's hand. A sign hung around his neck with a shoelace read, "What about my future?"
The boy's mother, Gastonia resident Jonita Guy, was laid off in March from her job at Tyco Electronics in Rock Hill, S.C. She attended a Saturday morning rally organized to protest an international treaty that allows American companies to send thousands of manufacturing jobs to Mexico.
"Where's his future going to be?" she said, staring down at her son. "It scares me to think about what things are going to be like five years from now."
The United Auto Workers Local 5286 held a protest march in downtown Gastonia to voice opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which removes tariffs on imported goods. American companies capitalizing on low Mexican labor costs have relocated some U.S. jobs south of the border. Read More...
Watch NAFTA Ralley on News 14 in Gastonia, NC.
