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...union may simply be too vast for any real reform. Four of the Teamsters' past eight presidents were indicted on criminal charges; three of them went to prison. In 1989 the union settled a racketeering suit in which the feds accused its leadership of forging a "devil's pact" with the Mafia. To avoid a government-imposed trusteeship, the Teamsters agreed to allow the members to freely elect their president. Since then, Lacey and his team have driven out more than 150 misbehavers...
...anxiety about jobs that has made this week's House of Representatives vote on the North American Free Trade Agreement a nail-chewing Washington version of the Perils of Pauline. In itself, the pact that would allow free movement of goods and investments among Canada, the U.S. and Mexico would, it is thought, have only moderate immediate effects. Some U.S. jobs would be lost to low-wage Mexican competition, and some jobs would be created in American industries that would have an easier time selling their products in Mexico. But the numbers would be relatively small on both sides...
Labor leaders are skittish about the pact because of what it would do to their members' jobs in the short run. Their central beef is that the economic disparity between the U.S. and Mexico will lead to a mass exodus of American jobs south...
...staff is right to express its support for the North American Free Trade Agreement. Put simply, it's a pact that will help the world in the long...
...lose their jobs because of this treaty. The staff seems to overlook that. One hopes that President Clinton and others will consider these job losses more important than does The Crimson, and see to it that attempts are made to retrain American workers who lose their jobs under the pact...