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发帖数: 562 | 1 Higher wages in Mexico's auto sector are a long way off: ambassador
'For us, it would be unattainable in the short-term, given that we have a
different labour base'
David McKie, Vassy Kapelos · CBC News · Posted: Apr 10, 2018 8:03 PM ET |
Last Updated:
April 10
Mexican Ambassador to Canada Dionisio Pérez Jácome says establishing
higher wages in Mexico's auto industry is a worthy goal, but it's unlikely
to happen soon. (Patrick Doyle/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
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Mexico's ambassador to Canada says the drive for higher wages for his
country's auto workers in North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations
is aimed at an "aspirational" goal — one that won't be met soon.
Dionisio Pérez Jácome made the comments in an interview on CBC News
Network's Power & Politics Tuesday.
"As the secretary of the economy has put it recently, increasing wages in
Mexico is aspirational," said Pérez Jácome. "For us, it would be
unattainable in the short-term, given that we have a different labour base.
But we're looking at it with all seriousness."
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Many NAFTA critics blame Mexico's low-wage economy for plant closures and
job losses in Canada and the United States.
Canadian and U.S. NAFTA negotiators want Mexico to increase that country's
wages dramatically to bring them more in line with salaries earned by
unionized workers in Canada and the United States.
Wages for Mexican auto sector workers have become a key issue in the NAFTA
talks, which Pérez Jácome said could conclude with some sort of agreement
as early as next month.
No wage increases, no NAFTA: Dias
But there's still a lot of work to be done, said Jerry Dias, the national
president of Unifor, Canada's largest private sector union representing
Canadian auto workers.
"The bottom line is, if dramatic wage increases in the (Mexican) auto sector
are not a part of the agreement, then there can be no NAFTA," said Dias in
an interview with CBC News.
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'We could be reaching an agreement by early May'
00:00 08:20
Mexican Ambassador to Canada Dionisio Perez Jacome on the prospects of a
NAFTA agreement being reached in the coming weeks and Mexico’s openness to
labour standards being included in a final agreement. 8:20
Dias, who has the ear of Canadian and American negotiators, said Canada has
an "aggressive" policy when it comes to fighting to increase Mexican auto
sector wages and working conditions — factors he and other critics blame
for the flight of jobs from Canada to a lower-wage economy he said pays
workers between two and four dollars an hour.
Dias said North America has been producing about four million more cars per
year since NAFTA came into force on January 1, 1994, and yet Canada has
closed four assembly plants and lost more than 50,000 jobs.
"Why would Canada and the U.S. accept major migration of our jobs to Mexico,
based on an industrial system of exploitation?"
$15 an hour is 'not on': Herman
Pérez Jácome said that his country is "analyzing a proposal to incentive
high wages" and that Mexico is working hard to strengthen compliance with
labour standards and pass laws that provide better protection for auto
workers.
"What it means is a change in the proposal to try to incentivize production.
It doesn't mean to include directly increasing wages."
Labour standards represent one of a number of major issues negotiators are
trying to settle, said Lawrence Herman, an international trade lawyer with
Herman & Associates and a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.
The three countries, he said, could address the issue by agreeing to a phase
-in period that would allow Mexican wages to increase gradually over a set
period of time.
"There are possible solutions," he said in an interview with CBC News. "When
you get down to talking about numbers, you're on a continuum of
negotiations. Trying to get the Mexicans to agree to something like $15
bucks an hour is not on." | t*******e
发帖数: 562 | 2 这个是节外生枝,床铺不可能放弃NAFTA,
又无法让墨西哥加拿大接受任何修改,尤其是外来零件比例
所以现在是最后一轮,重点是评估工作条件,也就是要逼墨西哥涨工资
所以,最后NAFTA又可能谈不拢,如果加拿大也施压,就没有统一战线了 |
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