Top 100 Companies Laying off Workers Due to Nafta

Date: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:59 PM

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February 7, 2004
Report links job losses to NAFTA

Mike Sunnucks

The Business Journal
A new federal report released Friday lists the top 100 U.S. companies that have exported jobs to Mexico since the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994.

The list -- which was put out by North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan - includes numerous large, well-known corporations and some companies with strong presence in Arizona.

Vanity Fair -- the apparel maker not the magazine --heads the list, which also includes Levi Strauss & Co., Hewlett-Packard, Kraft Foods, General Electric and Kimberly Clark. Corp.

Two major Arizona employers, Motorola and Honeywell International, also made the top 100 NAFTA job-loss list.

The study was conducted by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and looked at companies' requests for NAFTA related federal assistance to retrain workers displaced by jobs moving to Mexico.

Dorgan, a Democrat, has been a strong critic of free trade agreements and the exporting of U.S. jobs to foreign markets.

However, the problem in the past few years has been U.S. companies and some top Arizona employers shipping jobs to China and India and not Mexico.

That has led to sluggish job growth as well as an erosion of the domestic manufacturing base.

That list which was not part of the CRS study includes Valley heavyweights such as Intel, Bank of America and Bank One.

For more: dorgan.senate.gov.

http://dorgan.senate.gov/features/top100.cfm

In 1993, when Congress was asked to approve the North American Free Trade Agreement, I was a leader in the fight against it.

Proponents of NAFTA claimed that the trade deal would generate 200,000 new jobs within a few years. I thought that, on the contrary, NAFTA would result in massive layoffs for U.S. workers. Unfortunately, a new report has proven that I was right.

I asked the Congressional Research Service to identify the top 100 companies to lay off U.S. workers because of NAFTA, from 1994 to 2002.
These 100 companies alone accounted for an estimated 201,414 U.S. jobs lost, in direct relation to NAFTA. The list includes many companies with which you are probably familiar.

To see the full CRS report, click here.

Top 100 Companies Laying off U.S. Workers Due to Nafta

Rank - Company - Total certified workers

1 - Vanity Fair or VF - 16,095
2 - Levi Strauss and Co. - 15,676
3 - Burlington House & Industries total - 9,679
4 - Motorola, Inc. - 7,347
5 - Tyco - 5,751
6 - General Electric ALL - 5,674
7 - Fruit of the Loom, Texas - 5,352
8 - Russell Corporation - 3,630
9 - Lucent Technologies - 3,416
10 - Honeywell, Inc. - 2,754
11 - Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation - 2,600
12 - Lexington Fabrics - 2,461
13 - Anchor Glass Corp. - 2,419
14 - Brown Group - 2,400
15 - Louisiana Pacific - 2,397
16 - Dana Corporation - 2,306
17 - Emerson Electronic Connector Components - 2,246
18 - Stroh Brewery Company (The) - 2,222
19 - Trinity Industries - 2,203
20 - Sarah Lee - 2,124
21 - Viasystems Technologies - 2,100
22 - Eaton Corporation - 2,052
23 - TRW/Auto Electronics Group of North Amer - 2,050
24 - Thomas and Betts Corporation - 1,987
25 - Nokia - 1,980
26 - Oxford Industries - 1,960
27 - Solectron Corporation - 1,932
28 - United Technologies Corporation - 1,899
29 - Allied Signal, Inc. - 1,883
30 - Henry I. Siegel - 1,857
31 - Autoliv ASP - 1,720
32 - Haggar Clothing Co. - 1,717
33 - Hewlett Packard - 1,683
34 - Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company - 1,671
35 - AMP, Inc. - 1,654
36 - Thomaston Mills - 1,649
37 - Kemet Electronics - 1,631
38 - Freightliner LLC - 1,595
39 - Lockheed Martin - 1,584
40 - Tultex Corporation - 1,547
41 - Hasbro Manufacturing Services - 1,531
42 - Exide Technologies - 1,470
43 - PL Industries and Subsidiary - 1,446
44 - FCI USA, Inc. - 1,436
45 - Kimberly Clark Corp - 1,415
46 - Woodward Governor Company - 1,390
47 - Ithaca Industries - 1,359
48 - Regency Packing Company - 1,334
49 - Al Tech Specialty Steel Corporation - 1,330 50 - Master Lock - 1,324
51 - Square D Corporation - Group Schneider - 1,322
52 - Newell Manufacturing - 1,308
53 - Aalfs Manufacturing - 1,276
54 - Mattel Operations - 1,259
55 - Borg-Warner Automotive Diversified Trans - 1,259
56 - Sola Optical USA, Inc. - 1,252
57 - Federal Mogul Wiper Products - 1,201
58 - Household Products - 1,200
59 - Plaid Clothing Group - 1,180
60 - L.G. Philips Display - 1,163
61 - Magnetek - 1,160
62 - John Deere Consumer - 1,150
63 - Copper Range Co. - 1,133
64 - Sunbeam - 1,130
65 - Sony - 1,126
66 - Scientific Atlanta - 1,121
67 - Lear Corporation - 1,120
68 - Champion Products - 1,116
69 - KLH Industries - 1,100
70 - SMTC Mfg. Corp. of Wisconsin - 1,085
71 - Zenith Electronics Corp. - 1,057
72 - Crown Pacific Limited Partnership - 1,050
73 - Flexel, Inc. - 1,050
74 - Hamilton Beach/Proctor Silex, Inc. - 1,046
75 - Johnson Controls Inc. - 1,036
76 - Gulford Mills - 1,032
77 - United States Leather - 1,011
78 - Monon Corp. - 1,000
79 - Ametek Total - 1,000
80 - Singer Furniture - 1,000
81 - J.R. Simplot Company - 995
82 - Flextronics International - 991
83 - Greenwood Mills - 991
84 - Georgia Pacific West - 966
85 - Celestica Corporation - 965
86 - Seton Company - 960
87 - Kraft Foods North America - 955
88 - Bassett Furniture Industries - 954
89 - Grove U.S. LLC - 950
90 - C-Cor.Net - 930
91 - Jeanerette Mills - 926
92 - Boise Cascade Corp. - 918
93 - Strick Corporation - 912
94 - Xerox - 893
95 - A.O. Smith Electrical Products - 878
96 - Smith Corona Corporation - 874
97 - Siemens - 874
98 - Mitsubishi Consumer Electronics America - 870
99 - Budd Company (The) - 868
100 - Cross Creek Apparel - 863

TOTAL FOR THIS GROUP 201,414

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