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North American Free Trade Agreement Brings Varied Luck for Mexican Workers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2003
By Jane Bussey, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 10--For Mexican workers who assembled television sets for Zenith Electronics, the North American Free Trade Agreement was the beginning of a dream. For their counterparts making picture tubes in a Chicago suburb, it spelled the end of one.
Former Zenith Chairman Jerry K. Pearlman, interviewed by The Herald in 1993 at Zenith headquarters in Illinois, gained local union support for NAFTA based on the argument the pact would boost production at the Zenith plant in Melrose Park, Ill.
But Zenith is now a wholly owned subsidiary of LG Electronics, the Korean behemoth that helped drive the American company into a controversial 1999 bankruptcy. Pearlman sent word...
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