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Bonus Episode 19 - the Coup at Ford Cuautitlán: the AFL-CIO, AIFLD, the CIA, Labor Unions, and NAFTA, featuring Rob McKenzie

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The Ford Quatina Plant in Mexico City

In the early eighties, a c t m had agreed to what i say was a two teer wage scale. New hires would receive wayless a money. So they finally rehired everyone after it was ratified. It amounted to a forty % benefit and wage cut to what the workers had been making. And 600 people were never called back. They didn't know that too at the time they ratified it. In 87, ford began negotiating a new contract withthe c t m. The partila revolutionario de la straba, whichw therea essentially a left wing political groupr oh, yeye. This is before nafhta technically, or like the whole

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