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What Union Activists Really Think About NAFTA and Trade

We keep hearing that surveys show that Americans think the North American Free Trade Agreement is good for the United States, but if that is so, why did so many voters in states hard hit by ill-considered trade policies (such as Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) vote for the candidate who promised to fix bad trade policies in the past election?

The AFL-CIO decided to survey our activists to find out. Although a non-random sample, the results provide some insight into the opinions of active union members.

When asked whether NAFTA has been good or bad for working people in the United States, our respondents said NAFTA was bad, 65% to 35%. This is important because the framing of the question matters. Talking heads from the business and foreign policy community are on TV and in newspaper opinion pages every day, extolling the virtues of NAFTA "for the United States." But the United States isn’t a single entity—it is made up of individuals, families and businesses. Union activists know that while what’s good for Wall Street might be portrayed as "good for America," it’s...

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