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Losing
Good Jobs in Massachusetts
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‘Free Trade’
With Foreign Countries Is Not ‘Free Trade’;
President of 300 Employee Cranston Print Works
Says NAFTA and Other Trade Policies Help Only
Huge, Multi-National Companies
"Free Trade is great theory, but we don't
practice it," says George W. Shuster,
president of the oldest textile company in
the U.S. - MN
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Elite’s
Distaste for Factories Contributes To Loss
of Good Jobs
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Print Works in Webster is battling to keep manufacturing
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Shuster’s
Letter Exposes ‘Free Trade’
George W. Shuster, President
of Cranston Print Works Company, fired off
the following letter to "The Associated
Industries of Mass-achusetts" last summer
to take them to
task for their enthusiastic advocacy of "Free
Trade" policies.
The industry group responded in the Winter
2003 issue of "Business and In-dustry
Reporter," by saying they took a second
look at their policy and have ad-justed it
somewhat to push for fairer trade. - MN
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W. Shuster says that "free trade"
is a great theory, but that's not what we're
practicing. |
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Massachusetts
Needs To Preserve Its Industrial Base
Why
is Massachusetts losing its manufacturing
jobs? Although some manufacturers have managed
to keep their heads above water in Massachusetts
through technology and increased output, it
is unclear how long that will keep them afloat.
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Fabric
is folded into bolts for shipment at Cranston
Print Works.
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National
Crisis Affects Mass.
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The United States is losing
its engine of economic growth-manufacturing.
"Why?"
These jobs have been migrating out of America
to foreign countries at an accelerating pace
since the 1980s. - MN
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worker at Cranston Print Works. |
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Expert
Says Canadians Profit Most From NAFTA
The
people who benefit the most from NAFTA are
the Canadians, our biggest trading partner,
says Jack Healey, Director of Operations at
the Mass. Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Program. He acknowledged that NAFTA will soon
expand all the way South.
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Reining
In Mass. High Business Costs
A
new study has found that Mass. businesses
still face high costs despite attempts at
reform by Beacon Hill over the last decade.
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Mass.
Industry Leader
Says Manufacturing At Center Of Recession
Andre
Mayer, Senior VP of the Associated Industries
of Massachusetts, spoke to MassNews on Beacon
Hill before he and his colleagues briefed
legislators on the plight of industry in the
current economy.
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Andre Mayer, A.I.M.'s Senior Vice President
of Communications and Research
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job at Cranston Print Works creates 2.37 additional
supporting jobs. |
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Moldmaker
Remains Positive Despite Obstacles
Dick Flannagan tells
MassNews he used to get by with good workers
but now he needs all-stars to continue to make
it in Massachusetts. -
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Blacks
Losing Good Jobs Because of The U.S. Civil
Rights Act of 1964
Because
many blacks are new to the labor market, they
have been damaged severely by the loss of
manufacturing jobs, where they were earning
good wages. - MN
The
above material has been excerpted
from the book "Freedom Will Conquer Racism
and Sexism" by Attorney J. Edward Pawlick.
It is available from Amazon and free to new
subscribers of the print edition of Massachusetts
News.
Click here for more information.
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| Dick
Flannagan, head of Stan-Cast machining in Leominster,
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Braintree, Randolph and
Holbrook
Sisk
Wants To Be an Independent Voice in
the State House
Braintree Native
Is for Never Raising Taxes, Reforming
Government
A native of Braintree,
Matt Sisk would like to serve his community
by becoming the State representative from the
Fifth Norfolk District.
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Sisk and Gov. Mitt Romney |
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More
Are Concerned About Our 'Broken' Courts
Does
Massachusetts have the worst courts in the
nation?
More concern has been expressed abut our "broken"
court system, which was highly criticized
last month in a report by a panel appointed
by Chief Justice Margaret Marshall and headed
by Boston College's chancellor, the Rev. J.
Donald Monan. - MN
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Massachusetts
Has More Lifetime Politicians than
Any Other
Resembles
an Oligarchy More than a Democracy
Massachusetts
has more "politicians for life"
than any other state and more closely resembles
an oligarchy than a democracy, according to
a panel of politicians and policy experts
at Suffolk University Law School April 3.
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Fathers
Protest Judges Abandoning Their Role to 'Experts'
A protest
was held April 15, in Boston
by fathers who are protesting the abandonment
of their role by judges who are allowing so-called
"experts" to make the decisions
concerning custody of children.
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Members of the CPF/Fatherhood Coalition demonstrate
on Winter Place near Downtown Crossing on
April 15th. The protest was held from 12:30
p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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Christian
Students Happy at Winning Case in Westfield
High
“The
kids are just ecstatic,” Atty. Matthew
Staver told MassNews after a federal judge
ordered the Westfield schools to remove a
su-spension on the students for sharing their
Christian faith on school grounds. “It
took a big burden off them,” the lawyer
said. - MN
Principal Thomas
Dailey (right) has failed to apologize for
violating the Constitutional rights of his
Westfield students.
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Hundreds
Rally on Needham Common to Support U.S. Troops
Over
300 people showed up at a rally on the Town
Common in Needham at the end of March to show
their support for American soldiers. - MN
Townspeople support U.S. troops at a rally
on the Needham common.
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Military
Mothers Provide Aid And Comfort to Each Other
One
of the positive side effects of a national crisis
is that it brings people together. This truism
has kept the mothers of servicemen from Townsend
from being overwhelmed with worry for the safety
of their sons.
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(L to R) Michelle Enright, Kathy Langone, Mary
Santoro and Linda Rourke sat with Fox 25 News
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‘David
v. Goliath’ Victory for Question #2
A
“David and Goliath victory” is how
Dr. Rosalie Pedalino Porter describes the
passage of Question 2, the November ballot
initiative that eliminated transitional bilingual
education programs and replaced them with
English-immersion classes.
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Porter met with Western MA. Republicans. |
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FISTGATE
2003 — PLAYING WITH YOUR CLASSMATES SEX
ORGANS
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