The Corporations Pushing NAFTA 2.0 Already Are Responsible for More Than 500,000 Trade-Related U.S. Job Losses
If the “USMCA” is nothing like NAFTA and good for American workers as Trump claims, why are unions opposed and corporations responsible for 500,000 trade-related layoffs trying to ram it through Congress?
Two massive corporate coalitions packed with chronic job-outsourcers and Big Pharma firms that pushed NAFTA in the 1990s and every other trade deal that Donald Trump says he hates now are spending millions to ram the revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal through Congress.
Member firms of these corporate lobby fronts – USMCA Coalition and Pass USMCA Coalition – already have been certified by the U.S. government as responsible for at least half a million trade-related American job losses since they pushed NAFTA 1.0 through Congress.
Meanwhile, labor unions and consumer groups say the revised NAFTA will lock in high medicine prices and won’t stop job outsourcing. They are demanding improvements before the pact goes to Congress.
Per the AFL-CIO Executive Council: “The labor movement is united in our judgment that the new NAFTA does not yet meaningfully address what is wrong with the original NAFTA…the new NAFTA does little to stop the continued outsourcing of U.S. jobs to Mexico across all sectors…It will also keep drug prices high by expanding monopoly power for brand-name pharmaceutical companies… if the administration insists on a premature vote on the new NAFTA in its current form, we will have no choice but to oppose it.”
Members of the Corporate Lobby Groups Pushing Trump’s NAFTA 2.0 Are Responsible for More Than 500,000 Trade-Related American Job Losses
TOTAL JOB LOSSES
JOB LOSSES DUE TO OUTSOURCING
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The Most Engaged Firms, that Signed Up for the Coalitions Directly Rather than Through Their Trade Associations, Were Responsible for a Large Share of Past U.S. Trade-Related Job Loss
| Firms in Listed Trade Associations and Directly Signed On | Companies Listed by Name as Directly Signed On | |
|---|---|---|
| Total job losses | 510,016 | 232,489 |
| Job losses due to outsourcing | 225,527 | 110,631 |
The 25 Corporations With the Most Certified Trade-Related American Layoffs Now Pushing to Pass NAFTA 2.0
| Company | Jobs Outsourced |
|---|---|
| VF Corporation (Lee, Wrangler, Timberland, Vans, The North Face and many other clothing/shoe brands) | 14,469 |
| Delphi | 11,731 |
| General Electric | 10,619 |
| General Motors | 8,559 |
| HP | 8,521 |
| Eaton | 7,492 |
| Honeywell | 7,290 |
| Boeing | 7,240 |
| Whirlpool | 6,865 |
| Intel | 5,864 |
| Motorola Solutions | 5,588 |
| Siemens AG | 5,094 |
| Hanesbrands | 4,826 |
| Boston Scientific | 4,317 |
| Flextronics International USA | 4,067 |
| Caterpillar | 3,746 |
| American Airlines | 3,686 |
| Alcoa | 3,654 |
| Emerson | 3,599 |
| Johnson Controls | 3,114 |
| Dell | 2,948 |
| Steelcase | 2,917 |
| Micron | 2,738 |
| Ford Motor Company | 2,668 |
| Fiat Chrysler Automobiles | 2,626 |
Among the Companies Listed by Name as Directly Signed on to the Corporate Pro-USMCA Coalitions, Best-Represented Industries Have Either Outsourced the Most Jobs (Electronics/Machinery) or Seek Special Protections (Biotech/Pharmaceutical Companies)
| Industry | Corporate Members | Jobs Outsourced |
|---|---|---|
| Electronics/machinery | 18 | 48,712 |
| Biotech/pharma | 10 | 7,615 |
| Food | 7 | 3,422 |
| Financial | 7 | 1,002 |
| Other manufacturing | 6 | 3,454 |
| Business services | 6 | 1,899 |
| Transportation | 5 | 0 |
| Automotive | 5 | 16,986 |
| Advanced materials/chemicals | 5 | 165 |
| Clothing/textiles | 4 | 19,339 |
| Logistics | 4 | 734 |
| Steel | 3 | 20 |
| Technology | 3 | 616 |
| Communications | 2 | 6,667 |
| Marketing | 2 | 0 |
| Hospitality | 1 | 0 |
| Standards | 1 | 0 |
| n/a | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 90 | 110,631 |
* While the Big-three auto firms are listed in the top 25 job losses, they do not appear in this breakdown because this analysis is limited to those individual firms that directly bought in to one of the corporate pro-USMCA lobbying groups, not companies represented through trade associations.
At Least 10 Out of the 90 Companies Listed by Name as Directly Signed on to the Corporate Pro-USMCA Coalitions to the Pass USMCA Corporate Coalitions Are Foreign Entities or Subsidiaries of Foreign Entities
Not that the U.S. Firms in These Coalitions Are Primarily Concerned With Helping American Workers Either…
| Company | Country |
|---|---|
| CN (Canadian National Railway Company) | Canada |
| Toyota | Japan |
| Solvay | Belgium |
| Cacheaux, Cavazos & Newton (law firm) | Mexico |
| Samsung USA | Korea |
| Chubb | Switzerland |
| CNH Industrial | Netherlands |
| SSAB Americas | Sweden |
| Safran USA | France |
| Covestro | Germany |
Trade Related Job Losses of Firms Associated with the Corporate Coalitions – USMCA Coalition and Pass USMCA Coalition – Now Spending Millions to Try to Pass the USMCA
| Company | Representation (Company or Industry Association) | Sector (for companies represented by name only) | Total Job Losses | Jobs Outsourced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mastercard | Company | Financial | 6 | 6 |
| Shell Oil | U.S. Chamber of Commerce | 621 | 12 | |
| MetLife | Company | Financial | 14 | 14 |
| Toyota | Company | Auto | 243 | 19 |
| ArcelorMittal | Company | Steel | 2839 | 20 |
| BT Americas | U.S. Council for International Business | 29 | 29 | |
| Jacobs Engineering | Business Roundtable | 29 | 29 | |
| Amgen | Company | Biotech/pharma | 791 | 42 |
| Cisco Systems | Company | Electronics/machinery | 44 | 44 |
| MILLIKEN | Company | Clothing/textiles | 658 | 44 |
| Dow | Company | Biotech/pharma | 272 | 50 |
| Broadcom | Semiconductor Industry Association | 54 | 54 | |
| Wipro | Business Roundtable | 60 | 60 | |
| Xylem | Business Roundtable | 62 | 62 | |
| Cigna | Business Roundtable | 63 | 63 | |
| Qualcomm | U.S. Council for International Business | 68 | 68 | |
| Pricewaterhouse Coopers | U.S. Council for International Business | 74 | 74 | |
| Deloitte | National Association of Manufacturers | 78 | 78 | |
| McKesson Corporation | Business Roundtable | 81 | 81 | |
| Merck | U.S. Council for International Business | 93 | 93 | |
| EY | Business Roundtable | 101 | 101 | |
| Alpha Technologies | U.S. Chamber of Commerce | 125 | 101 | |
| Nike | U.S. Council for International Business | 114 | 114 | |
| Northrop Grumman | Business Roundtable | 114 | 114 | |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb | Company | Biotech/pharma | 366 | 125 |
| PepsiCo | Business Roundtable | 130 | 130 | |
| Avis | Business Roundtable | 138 | 138 | |
| Microsoft | Company | Technology | 142 | 142 |
| Pitney Bowes | Company | Logistics | 143 | 143 |
| DuPont | Company | Biotech/pharma | 1298 | 154 |
| Prudential | Business Roundtable | 157 | 157 | |
| Target | Business Roundtable | 161 | 161 | |
| General Dynamics | Aerospace Industries Association | 328 | 163 | |
| NCR | Information Techology Industry Council | 464 | 164 | |
| Levi Strauss | U.S. Council for International Business | 21063 | 164 | |
| Corning Incorporated | Company | Advanced materials/chemicals | 1285 | 165 |
| Owens Corning | Business Roundtable | 276 | 186 | |
| Owens-Illinois | Company | Other manufacturing | 403 | 191 |
| Baker Hughes | Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates | 1356 | 201 | |
| Penske | National Association of Manufacturers | 584 | 202 | |
| Harley-Davidson | National Association of Manufacturers | 216 | 216 | |
| DHL | Company | Logistics | 249 | 249 |
| McDonald's | U.S. Council for International Business | 261 | 261 | |
| ExxonMobil | Business Roundtable | 3802 | 266 | |
| Adecco | U.S. Council for International Business | 368 | 299 | |
| Rheem Manufacturing Company | Company | Other manufacturing | 306 | 306 |
| Navistar International | National Association of Manufacturers | 2436 | 336 | |
| UPS | Company | Logistics | 342 | 342 |
| Verizon | U.S. Council for International Business | 363 | 359 | |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Company | Financial | 369 | 369 |
| Fruit of the Loom | American Apparel and Footwear Association | 12792 | 376 | |
| McCormick and Company | National Foreign Trade Council | 388 | 388 | |
| Bayer | Business Roundtable | 1961 | 397 | |
| CNH Industrial | Company | Electronics/machinery | 626 | 448 |
| Western Union | Business Roundtable | 467 | 467 | |
| Oracle | Company | Technology | 474 | 474 |
| Accenture | Business Roundtable | 547 | 483 | |
| Raytheon | Business Roundtable | 561 | 561 | |
| The Kraft Heinz Company | Company | Food | 1870 | 568 |
| Renfro | American Apparel and Footwear Association | 2913 | 580 | |
| American Express | Business Roundtable | 582 | 582 | |
| Hilton | U.S. Council for International Business | 601 | 601 | |
| Citigroup | Company | Financial | 613 | 613 |
| Ingersoll Rand | Business Roundtable | 1212 | 619 | |
| New York Life Insurance | Business Roundtable | 625 | 625 | |
| Cintas | Business Roundtable | 823 | 634 | |
| Travelers | Business Roundtable | 637 | 637 | |
| BP | Business Roundtable | 1439 | 644 | |
| Sprint | U.S. Council for International Business | 668 | 668 | |
| Energizer | National Electrical Manufacturers Association |